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Old 04-02-2010, 12:45 AM
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How's this? Part II

All,

Sorry, once again for the off-topic nature of this post, but, I thought it'd make a nice adjunct for my last thread which garnered a bit of interest.

http://static.panoramio.com/photos/original/3926603.jpg

*ZAP*

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Old 04-02-2010, 12:49 AM
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Wow, H!


Nice pic!


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Old 04-02-2010, 12:50 AM
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Old 04-02-2010, 07:00 AM
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Best lightning shot i have seen for a while.
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Old 04-02-2010, 08:00 AM
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Awesome shot Humayun! I bet the people under that ground strike have already called their insurance companies to get new computers, plasma tellies, scanners and so on! I also bet that they've called their dry cleaners.

I had lightning strike the tree next door one evening a while back - the room I was in would have been about 15m from the strike. It was brown undies time. The strike killed the tree outright - and it was a BIG tree. The next morning there were shards of the tree all over my yard...everywhere. What an amazing force of nature lightning is.
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Old 04-02-2010, 08:35 AM
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wow thats a huge area of impact :O!
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Old 04-02-2010, 08:41 AM
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Probably should link to the source, too, H.

I wonder how much of that is over exposed - i'm sure the lightning strike wasn't *that* wide.
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Old 04-02-2010, 08:54 AM
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Amazing nevertheless. I wouldn't worry too much about the "off topic" disclosure also
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Old 04-02-2010, 08:57 AM
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Probably should link to the source, too, H.

I wonder how much of that is over exposed - i'm sure the lightning strike wasn't *that* wide.

i concur

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Old 04-02-2010, 08:58 AM
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What a picture Ye olde camera-person was game. Not all that far from the strike in lightning terms and on much higher ground.

Anyway they got away unscathed and with a rip snorter photo as well ... its quite something else.

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Old 04-02-2010, 09:35 AM
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Jiminy!!! Very scary stuff indeed
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Old 04-02-2010, 10:16 AM
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Mike,

I got linked just the image on IRC with no source. The rest of the page is probably on Panoramio somewhere.

I agree, there's no way the lightning would have been that wide. Still, it makes for an interesting image, nonetheless.

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Old 04-02-2010, 10:46 AM
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Still an awsome shot!

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Old 04-02-2010, 03:43 PM
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awesome, but that would be a gross overexposure. Lightning is generally only the width of a pencil, it's only the extreme brightness that makes it appear thick on images.
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