Last night all the instability in the atmosphere actually amounted to something more than just dark clouds and a few claps of thunder. The storm clouds rolled in and with them a fantastic lightening display, some heavy rain and some really really loud thunder. I love it when thunder claps right over head and sets car alarms off – you know that it’s close!
The first photo is at the start of the storm when the dark clouds came rolling in in a serious way. They turned the sky black and I knew that there was more to come.
The second photo is my first attempt at photographing lightening so I’m sorry that it’s out of focus as I’ve still got lots to learn about the art of taking a good photo of lightening, but I did think that it was worthy of sharing it with you.
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Wow they are incredible photos. It must have been a thrilling a storm. The lightening picture is extraordinary.
Thanks Tam. It was an awesome storm and the build up was for about 40 mins before the rain really started pelting down and I had to go inside from the balcony.
Wow! They are great pictures!!! Thanks for sharing. I heard the storm here in Amman, too and it was great. I love thunder storms!
Thanks Michelle. I’ve seen some photos of the storm in Amman and other areas. It was pretty widespread and putting on a fantastic sound and light show!
We also had an amazing desply of lightening here in Amman too!
I think your lightening picture is breath taking, thank you for sharing it
My pleasure. With more practice hopefully I can improve my technique. This strange weather just keeps continuing!
That is incredible!
Thank you! I was just happy to have got really lucky in capturing such an amazing lightening strike. Pure luck!
Whoa!! What pictures
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