Courthouse Butte lightning
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AlanLichty
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Stunning capture - I love the layers of the storm as it envelopes your view of the buttes.
Bob
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Thank you Alan.
I love the way the twin bolts surround the butte.
This is awesome Bob! You scored big time with this. I had a bunch of lightning here in Colorado too, but it was just all cloud lighting and I couldn't see any bolts. But it went on for hours, and the sky above was just growling and growling. It was super cool, other then I couldn't see it.
Amy Nelson
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Did you plan that? 
Excellent
Excellent
Great shot Bob.
Bob
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Thanks Ben
Bob
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Tim,
This was very close to where I live. When I saw the storm coming in from this direction I ran out set up and within 10 minutes i captured this one. This was a very productive storm in terms of lightning. I have several other bolts from the same location.
Bob
Bob
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Jim,
Thank you for the featured post. That is too bad you didn't get anything in Colorado i know the feeling. Gone out many times and got nothing. This storm was particularly productive in terms of lightning. I have several more shots of big bolts hitting Cathedral Rock.
Bob
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Amy,Did you plan that?
Thank you. If you call running out and setting up to shoot the storm planning I guess yes I plan it. Honestly, shooting lightning is a real crap shoot.
Eric Gofreed
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Just two words for this, Awe Some
Littlefield
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Spectacular !
Don
Don
Michael Liskay
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Great shot and yup, lightening triggers are fantastic!!
Mike Lewis
Staff Member
Lovely! I have a lightning trigger too but have yet to get anything striking (pun intended ) with it. Would love to hear a little more about what trigger you used and what your camera settings were. I had a session with mine where I had my shutter speed set too high and I think I was triggering too soon and missing a lot of the action...
ML
) with it. Would love to hear a little more about what trigger you used and what your camera settings were. I had a session with mine where I had my shutter speed set too high and I think I was triggering too soon and missing a lot of the action...ML
Bob
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Mike,Lovely! I have a lightning trigger too but have yet to get anything striking (pun intended
ML
I use the one called "Lightning Bug". I set the lightning trigger to one below the most sensitive setting. You have to point it very close to where you think the lightning is going to appear. I usually try for the leading edge of the storm, My camera setting are either F8 of F11 with a polarizer on the lens just to get a slower shutter speed. Most of the time I am at around 1/60 of a second or slower. I think the shot above was 1/20 second. Hope this helps.
Bob
Kyle Jones
Moderator
Impressive capture. It's an iconic scene even without the lightning, which takes it up a notch,