I've never even bothered to try before. Really, who can get a picture of lightning?

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Good Job Ron, I see you had the storm that just nailed us...WOW...talk about thunder boomers and lightening, It was so close here that the lightening flash hadn't even finished before the thunder boomed! Scared the birds that were attempting to sleep...And both my dogs were hunkered under the computer desk by my feet.

Did you have high winds too?? The were between 45 and 60 mph gusts down here....I just hope it didn't start any fires anywhere.

Who can get a picture of lightning?...well of course Uncle Zip... great timing Ron....and you did a good job....never thought to try that....but then again, lightning scares me so much that I'm inside sitting down when we get something like that..
Thanks for the unusual but pretty shots....

Wow, amazing shots!!

I've thought about trying that before but when I think about it, you don't get a countdown or anything so I figured it was futile. (..and a 4 -3 - 2 - 1 - STRIKE! )

thats fantastic thanks for thise amazing shots

great pics UZ, envious you had a storm. I know how to capture lightening pics with a SLR but with digital I am clueless. Did you set your camera to continuous and just do bursts until you captured it or??

I put the camera on a "sports" setting. It snaps the pics pretty quick, and you don't get any blurring. I just stood and waited for a flash and "snap"! Out of maybe 15 shots I had four with some kind of lightning. Those two were the best. I wish I'd thought of it the day before. We had an even better show, but it was earler in the day so the light may have affected the results.

We could be in for more storms today and tomorrow. I'll keep the camera handy now.

Hmmm, I don't think my camera has that feature.

I thought maybe with Canadian lightning, you got a ten second warning or something so you could get your camera ready to snap.

Not true! But our lighting does drive on the left hand side of the road.

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Who can get a picture of lightning?...well of course Uncle Zip...


And Carolyn! Check out what I took last year at

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=1341...mp;id=755700491

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=1341...mp;id=755700491

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=1341...mp;id=755700491

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=1341...mp;id=755700491

Oh, BTW, it's all pure luck, capturing it...I took many shots to get this..used a tripod to stabilize camera...

Carolyn:-)