May 21

The Beauty of Lightning Photography: A Bolt From The Blue

Scientifically speaking, lightning is an abrupt electric discharge from cloud to cloud or from cloud to earth accompanied by the emission of light. But for photographers it is a beautiful creation from Mother Nature. Lightning occurs during a storm resulting from strong rising air currents; heavy rain or hail along with thunder and sometimes during volcanic eruptions or dust storms. Mother Nature pigments an galvanic blue sky with a steep contrast of lightning.

Lightning is a mystifying and breathtaking sight to observeiew. For taking a perfect shot, you must focus on Shutter Speed, Second Aperture and Focal Length. Today we have come up with some dazzling examples of lightning.

Stunning Examples of Lightning Photography

Big storm 2

Big-storm-2 in The Beauty of Lightning Photography: A Bolt From The Blue

Swan Song Arizona

Lightning Storm in The Beauty of Lightning Photography: A Bolt From The Blue

The Blitz

The-blitz in The Beauty of Lightning Photography: A Bolt From The Blue

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Ejafjalla18apr2010-mfulle4289j in The Beauty of Lightning Photography: A Bolt From The Blue

Lightning From Cloud

Lightning25 in The Beauty of Lightning Photography: A Bolt From The Blue

Picacho Illumination Arizona

Lightning Bolts in The Beauty of Lightning Photography: A Bolt From The Blue

twas a dark and stormy night

Night in The Beauty of Lightning Photography: A Bolt From The Blue

Thunderbolt over the sea

Thunderbolt-over-the-sea in The Beauty of Lightning Photography: A Bolt From The Blue

Beyond Organ Pipe Arizona

Lightning Sunsetsky in The Beauty of Lightning Photography: A Bolt From The Blue

Million Volt Curtain Arizona

Severe Thunderstorm in The Beauty of Lightning Photography: A Bolt From The Blue

Lightning Sunset

Lightning Sunset in The Beauty of Lightning Photography: A Bolt From The Blue

Don Naumann’s Lightning Photography

Don-naumann-lightning-photos in The Beauty of Lightning Photography: A Bolt From The Blue

Lightning

Lightning23 in The Beauty of Lightning Photography: A Bolt From The Blue

Night Thunderstorm

Lightning-sky2 in The Beauty of Lightning Photography: A Bolt From The Blue

Lightning

Lightning22 in The Beauty of Lightning Photography: A Bolt From The Blue

Lightning in the Baltic Sea

Lightning30 in The Beauty of Lightning Photography: A Bolt From The Blue

Lightning Strikes Cheney

Lightning-strikes-cheney in The Beauty of Lightning Photography: A Bolt From The Blue

3 lightning

Lightning29 in The Beauty of Lightning Photography: A Bolt From The Blue

Thunderstorm

Thunderstormzzzz in The Beauty of Lightning Photography: A Bolt From The Blue

The Anger of Zeus

The-anger-of-zeus in The Beauty of Lightning Photography: A Bolt From The Blue

Lightning Blue

Lightning223 in The Beauty of Lightning Photography: A Bolt From The Blue

Nature’s Omnipotent Power

Nature-omnipotent-power in The Beauty of Lightning Photography: A Bolt From The Blue

Source

Lightning Storms in The Beauty of Lightning Photography: A Bolt From The Blue

Lightning

Shlomi-nissim in The Beauty of Lightning Photography: A Bolt From The Blue

Lightning Over Miramare Di Rimini Italy

LightningOverMiramareDiRiminiItaly in The Beauty of Lightning Photography: A Bolt From The Blue

Anger

Anger in The Beauty of Lightning Photography: A Bolt From The Blue

Lightning chilth

Chilth in The Beauty of Lightning Photography: A Bolt From The Blue

Lightning

Lightning10 in The Beauty of Lightning Photography: A Bolt From The Blue

A33 Storm

A33-storm in The Beauty of Lightning Photography: A Bolt From The Blue

Lightning Cross, Arizona

Lightning Boltcross in The Beauty of Lightning Photography: A Bolt From The Blue

Thunderstorm over Florence

Thunderstorm-over-florence in The Beauty of Lightning Photography: A Bolt From The Blue

lake ontario

Lightning1 in The Beauty of Lightning Photography: A Bolt From The Blue

Lightnings

Multiple-lightning in The Beauty of Lightning Photography: A Bolt From The Blue

Lightning Original

Lightning20 in The Beauty of Lightning Photography: A Bolt From The Blue

Lightning Sky, Nebraska, 1996

Lightning-sky in The Beauty of Lightning Photography: A Bolt From The Blue

Przemyslaw Wielicki

Przemyslaw-wielicki in The Beauty of Lightning Photography: A Bolt From The Blue

Apocalypse

Apocalypse in The Beauty of Lightning Photography: A Bolt From The Blue

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Ejafjalla16apr2010-mfulle4145j in The Beauty of Lightning Photography: A Bolt From The Blue

Eruption lightning at Krakatau

Eruption-lightning-at-krakatau in The Beauty of Lightning Photography: A Bolt From The Blue

29 Responses, Add Comment +

  1. Jordan Walker 21 May 2010

    If only we could learn to harness and store that energy.

    • Jamie 21 May 2010

      Excellent idea. But how would you generate it? Can you store it? Ah – enough worry about the details! Lets get going on that Flux Capacitor working model………

  2. rod rodriguez 21 May 2010

    that’s a lot of natural power right there, great shots, awesome compilation, thanks for this article…

  3. Gaurav 21 May 2010

    Awesome collection!!!
    hats off to the photographers who takes so much pain in finding out best shots for us.

  4. esranull 21 May 2010

    wooow it is very natural and nice photo thanks a lot

  5. bestfreewebresources 21 May 2010

    nice photo :)

  6. Scott Corgan 21 May 2010

    They look so good that I almost feel like it’s dangerous to be on the computer just looking at them. Where’s the thunder?!

    :)

  7. DC 21 May 2010

    These are “Shocking!” ;D

  8. Jack Lucky 21 May 2010

    Superb! What type of camera did they use to capture “Lightning”?

  9. Jamie 21 May 2010

    Striking!! (had to add an obvious pun)

    • Jamie 21 May 2010

      @Jordan Walker: excellent concept – any ideas?? I am thinking Flux Capacitor……………..?

  10. element321 21 May 2010

    I love lighting photography. These pictures are amazing. Thanks for sharing.

  11. Nikesh 22 May 2010

    Truly awesome collection…

  12. Nicolas 22 May 2010

    Gorgeous!

  13. Hamad 22 May 2010

    Electrifying!!!

  14. Naeem 22 May 2010

    Nice shots!

  15. BlogWebDesigner 22 May 2010

    Really awesome!

  16. NS 22 May 2010

    Nice collection, my vote is for “Thunderstorm”

  17. Ray 23 May 2010

    He unleashes his lightning beneath the whole heaven
    and sends it to the ends of the earth.

    Job 37:3

  18. Kaffebønner 23 May 2010

    Wauuuu – amazing :-)
    The first picture is my favorite!

  19. baca 24 May 2010

    amazing pictures :) really

  20. Smashing Buzz 24 May 2010

    fearful but amazing nature effects.

  21. Andris 24 May 2010

    Last year I was able to take some pictures of lightnings, too. But the ones you listed here are way better. Nevertheless here are mine: http://andrislinz.ch/lightnings-over-langendorf

  22. mohit 25 May 2010

    I am firlst time visting this site and I think its nice.
    Great tutorial…nice work!
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  23. Kennith Kalb 25 May 2010

    Your information here is amazing and wicked. So happy to be a daily reader!

  24. wildling2 25 May 2010

    awesome shots! love every one of them! Wish I could do the same.

  25. samer 26 May 2010

    nice. but not real.

  26. Tony Compola 27 May 2010

    Man at times is able to believe he is bigger than we really are due to the accomplishments he makes. We need to see something so awesome to bring us down to earth and realize how small we really are;and how helpless we can be compared to Mother Nature and Almighty God.Gazing at these pictures certainly solves the problem of thinking I”m bigger than I really am.Powerful and awesome;no doubt.

  27. hair care 24 June 2010

    wow~amazing blue sky

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