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Submitted: December 22, 2012
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Electrostaticby *Syndyne

Photography / Animals, Plants & Nature / Weather

Taken out on the Bald Hill opal field, Lightning Ridge N.S.W. 22.12.12 at 9:16pm EDST.

What a surprise this bolt was. The storms were shutting down and rapidly weakening by this point due to an upper atmospheric temperature drop. Outflow winds were furious by now too -indicative of the storms collapsing overhead and some very strong microbursts happening as a result.

We actually didn't really see this bolt, only a super bright flash (non-staccato). I had friends turn up to photograph with me and we were chatting at the time while looking out to the left of this area. I was just lucky enough to get this bolt in frame. Thank goodness for the 16mm!

These storms were still around 20-25k's out to the E-SE of town here. That's part of the Orion constellation visible in the upper left corner.

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Canon 16-35mm f2.8L II USM Lens
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*augenweide 5 days ago Hobbyist Photographer

your beautiful work is featured in my new journal...[link]

~Halcyon1990 Apr 26, 2013 Hobbyist Photographer

AWESOME!

*Syndyne Apr 27, 2013

Cheers Lucas! Much appreciated as always my friend

~Halcyon1990 May 4, 2013 Hobbyist Photographer

Hey, I have a question. : P Have you ever considered trying to capture images of sprites, blue jets, or elves? I have been looking at a lot of pictures of them recently, and it struck me that you might be able to capture some because of the terrain down there. : )

*High-Tech-Redneck Mar 21, 2013 Hobbyist Photographer

Wicked!

*Syndyne Mar 21, 2013

Thanks kindly sir!

Hope all is going great!

~dynamicimagery Feb 26, 2013

Beautiful shot. Just amazing!

*Syndyne Feb 26, 2013

Thanks for the kind words

~Mansfield114 Feb 20, 2013

so Incredible, feel like I am there watching it!

*Syndyne Feb 21, 2013

It does tend to have that effect.

Thanks very much for the comment!

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