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Posted: 2/17/2006 10:19:53 AM EDT
I'm going to be a dick and call
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Posted: 2/17/2006 10:26:57 AM EDT
nice
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Posted: 2/17/2006 10:28:51 AM EDT
if it's no bs, that's pretty cool and scarry at the same time
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Posted: 2/17/2006 10:29:02 AM EDT
I want to say the same. One in a Brazillion shot, and I would have to say that I don't know of a camera that can take a picture of a light that bright that close and not be washed out. The picture is just too perfect. |
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Posted: 2/17/2006 10:30:12 AM EDT
I'd pay money for one of those resin blocks.
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Posted: 2/17/2006 10:32:13 AM EDT
Thats a still off a video I believe think I saw the video on ebaums or compfused going to go look now
NM saw it on Nation geographic in cable on deman. IIRC was a hour long show all about lightning. The guy who took it had video taped storms for 10 years hoping to get a good video and finally got this one |
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Posted: 2/17/2006 10:32:38 AM EDT
That rippling effect by the tree is a reflection in the lens. See it all the time in the movies in bright light. Shok |
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Posted: 2/17/2006 10:35:05 AM EDT
ill have to make that my 'id hit it with the hand of zeus' forum image...
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Posted: 2/17/2006 10:36:26 AM EDT
The closest lightning strike I've ever seen was last summer, it looked like it struck a tree on the other side of the parking lot I was by, maybe 100-200 yards away. It was so loud I felt it through my chest and my ears were ringing for while after. It didn't look nearly as impressive as the pic in that link though.
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Posted: 2/17/2006 10:36:28 AM EDT
You can. They sell them. Pretty cool stuff. |
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Posted: 2/17/2006 10:39:39 AM EDT
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Posted: 2/17/2006 10:53:19 AM EDT
That's either a good digital rendering or a shot from a REALLY nice camera.
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Posted: 2/17/2006 10:55:18 AM EDT
We know. Cool pic. |
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Posted: 2/17/2006 10:57:08 AM EDT
needs a new coat of paint.
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Posted: 2/17/2006 10:58:22 AM EDT
So what else is new? CO |
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Posted: 2/17/2006 11:01:09 AM EDT
I'm not photoshop expert but wouldn't the reflections of light off the leaves of the other trees be too hard to create?
It looks very real too me but wtf do I know. |
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Posted: 2/17/2006 11:02:18 AM EDT
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Posted: 2/17/2006 11:06:51 AM EDT
I bet that was loud
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Posted: 2/17/2006 11:08:49 AM EDT
I've seen other legit photos of lightning that close, why can't this be real? |
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Posted: 2/17/2006 11:12:58 AM EDT
It is real. I read a story about it on the news a couple days ago.
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Posted: 2/17/2006 11:17:51 AM EDT
i'm not contesting the validity of the photo myself, but your "proof" that the photo is real is kind of weak. just remember: more thrusts per squeeze. |
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Posted: 2/17/2006 3:48:43 PM EDT
'Cause he's on the intarweb, and he says so. 
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Posted: 2/17/2006 3:55:47 PM EDT
That is proof that God hates palm trees.
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Posted: 2/17/2006 3:58:06 PM EDT
Damn!
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Posted: 2/17/2006 4:11:31 PM EDT
Closest lighting strike I've witnessed was 1 block away in an old downtown area. I drove around the block to see what it had struck and there was still brick colored dust hanging in the air around one of the buildings.
Probably the LOUDEST thing I've ever heard.
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Posted: 2/17/2006 4:43:28 PM EDT
That looks to me to be a reflection of the main bolt made by the reflections between the lenses of the camera.
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Posted: 2/17/2006 5:03:29 PM EDT
One of those was responsible for the drowning deaths of three swimmers in lake texoma a couple of years ago.
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Posted: 2/17/2006 5:07:53 PM EDT
Holy mo fo, that is a cool pic, batman
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Posted: 2/17/2006 5:53:45 PM EDT
The closest I've been to a lightning strike was right across the street from my house (about 30 yards). It was a little before 4am when my wife and I woke up to a LOUD crack that felt like a punch in the chest. We figured lightning hit the house, so we got up and looked around, but nothing was burning, and the electricity was still on. Checked on the boys, and they were still fast asleep, even though their room across the hall was closer to where the lightning actually hit.
Later that morning I went outside and noticed the bark that had been peeled off the 60-foot tree across the street like someone had run a vegetable/ fruit peeler down it in a swervy pattern. Our neighbors considered themselves lucky that the lightning didn't split their tree and cause it to fall on their house. It was by far the loudest noise I've ever experienced. My ears actually rang from it. |
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Posted: 2/17/2006 6:57:48 PM EDT
What's wild about the pic is the fact that the actual bolt is probably only 3/8" in diameter. The rest is just refraction.
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Posted: 2/17/2006 7:40:47 PM EDT
Saw the actual video on MaxX.
His mom starts screaming, asking him if he's ok (he's screaming like a little girl) and then he says "NO MOM, IM FINE! LET ME BE PROFESSIONAL ON THE MOVIE!" or something like that. Was really funny. |
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Posted: 2/17/2006 7:52:56 PM EDT
I've been in the house on several occasions when the flash and bang were simultaneous. That means, less than 100 yards from me is where the bolt struck.
I don't want to get any closer. CJ |
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Posted: 2/17/2006 8:04:25 PM EDT
I used to chase storms a lot in the past.
I have a bunch of lightning shots. This one is my favorite though.  Here are a few others. This one was a block away from me.   
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Posted: 2/17/2006 8:04:29 PM EDT
If that is indeed genuine, he is one lucky mo-fo that environmental conditions were just right that he is not a bbq special today.
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Posted: 2/17/2006 8:12:10 PM EDT
ilikelegs,
Great pics, I've been intimate with lightning a few times. Never got pictures like those though. GM |
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Posted: 2/17/2006 9:38:13 PM EDT
When I was a kid I saw lighting hit a tree 100 yards away from my Grandma's back porch in South Alabama. A sight I will never forget, middle of the day, tree brilliant white, then the sound.
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Posted: 2/17/2006 9:50:04 PM EDT
It's real. It happens. I have video of chasers being that close to strikes. If someone cares to tell me how to post it. I've been within 20 yds of a strike, in my house. It hit the tree across the street. The current travelled through the wet ground into the house. I had my foot on the threshold, and got zapped. It blew all the breakers in the house. Positive strikes happen. But not as often as the negative ones. The postive ones can really do alot of damage.
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Posted: 2/17/2006 10:21:46 PM EDT
Had lightning stike about 12 ft from our front door. Hit the neighbors tree and spiralled down the length of the tree, about 48 ft. It sounded like a 55mm howister going off. The wife was in the kitchen and thought the neighbor had a natural gas explosion. Our plate glass front room window bowed a good 6 inches but didn't break!!
We cut the tree down the next day. The neighbors son cut it open and you could see the path the lightning made down it's length. That's closer that I ever want to be to lighning again. |
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