Ground to cloud lightning with stars...

John here.

Last night, my youngest daughter sent me a text asking if I was watching the lightning to the south (I wasn’t). I checked my radar and saw the whole coast of Louisiana had storms. I got dressed in my photography clothes (long pants, long sleeve shirt, and a hat to help ward off mosquitoes) and went outside to see what I could see. I noticed flashes but couldn’t see anything because of the trees in the yard. I walked to get a good view of the south and saw the lightning. It was strobeing, constant flashes. I got in my car and drove to my favorite area to spot storms. I took over 35 minutes of video, seven minutes of timelapse video and 84 still shots. This shot was the best of the batch, a ground to cloud bolt.

This particular edit was requested by my wife. She thought it would be cool to show the lightning and the stars so here it is.

I am going through my content to see what I have. I will be posting more soon.

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I’m outta here.

John

Lightning from September 10 2016

John here.

I had a storm pop up just east of my house and I was able to capture this beauty from it. The storm built up for a little bit and then it dissipated. I will have a short timelapse video of the storm up soon.

Lightning from June 28 2016

John here.

I was going through my pictures this evening to see what content I have. I found this lightning strike from a storm chase. This is a hand-held shot (which is hard to capture).

Hand held lightning strike

"Lost Pictures"

John here.

I recently started organizing my pictures on my computer. I have been shooting on and off for over 10 years now and I have pictures in lots of different places. I found an 8TB external hard drive at Best Buy this past weekend and put it to good use. I have moved most of my files onto it and started the daunting task of organizing my pictures.

I was going through some of the RAW files I have and found some storm shots I forgot about. I started editing because there were some pretty epic lightning shots. Below is one of those shots.

Taken 080416 from my yard

I am going to be editing and posting more “lost shots” so stay tuned and I hope you like them.

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I am outta here.

John