Stunning image

[punna]

Namaste Anna It's a Fantastic and fascinating picture Coooooooooooooool :):-D:-D hello

[benjymous]

I'll agree with everyone else and say that it's quite incredible :) Do you have a higher res / lower compression version? -- Help me! I'm turning into a grapefruit!

[Daniel Turini]

SimonS wrote: If He used PhotoShop then where's Bob? Behind that tree, on the left :) I see dumb people

[Jorgen Sigvardsson]

The Emperor Palpatine gave you a visit down under? :rolleyes: -- It's not unusual to be picked up by a klingon woman It's not unusual to have fun with a klingon When I see you kicking me around It's not unusual to see me cry, I wanna die

[Jorgen Sigvardsson]

John Theal wrote: Which way does conventional current flow in this picture? What about hole flow? Either way, I sure wouldn't want it through any of my body parts. :-D -- It's not unusual to be picked up by a klingon woman It's not unusual to have fun with a klingon When I see you kicking me around It's not unusual to see me cry, I wanna die

[Lost User]

:omg: :cool: What else can I say ? Elaine (stunned fluffy tigress) The tigress is here :-D

[Ranjan Banerji]

Very cool. Once while flying over some part of the US southwest, the aircraft had to circle around a supercell/thunderstorm. It was at night. Each time there was lightening inside the cloud the whole mushroom would light up. Was amazing. Wish I had a cool camera and the skill to take good pictures... :-)

[Alexinuk]

Long exposures and Luck ;-)

[Chris Maunder]

Initially the strike starts from the cloud and works it's way down in in a series of straight sections that branch out. The current continues down in stages until streamers from the ground rise to meet one of the branches. When this happens the current travels back up the ionized path created by the downward moving branches. The flickering is caused by repeated current surges up the path. If there's a strong wind this ionised path can move with the wind so in long exposure (1/4 - 1/2 second) pictures of lightning you can see a kind of ribbon effect as multiple current surges occur slightly to the side of previous surges. Another option is that the conductive channel caused by one stroke dissapates before another discharge so a new path is formed between cloud and land. This gives that 'walking' effect. cheers, Chris Maunder

[Nitron]

Hey Chris, Do you have a hi-res version? It'd make a nice background ;) - Nitron

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[Christopher Duncan]

My instinctive response to seeing things like that is to quickly look up at the sky and declare loudly, "I didn't do it! Really! I was nowhere near the place..." Chistopher Duncan Author - The Career Programmer: Guerilla Tactics for an Imperfect World (Apress)

[Rob Manderson]

Dammit Chris ;) Now I'm homesick for Canberra (and I only lived there for 3 months)... Still it stopped my wife insisting that only Arizona has awesome lightning. It makes awesome wallpaper. Rob Manderson http://www.mindprobes.net