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Tonight's Lightning Storm

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Posted by Jason J. Hatfield on June 6, 2010 at 2:48 AM
My best capture from the lightning storm over Denver and the front range tonight. Warning! View in IE because Firefox makes the image look garish!

Click here for the image.

Sorry, can't post an image for another 24 hrs so you'll have to click, trust me, it's worth it!
Posted by Stan Rose on June 6, 2010 at 4:37 AM
I dont have to trust you, Jason, ill check out any shot involving lightning :biggrin:
Great catch! Glad you had some success, its been pretty quiet down here but that should change tomorrow and probably tue-wed as well. Id crop the left side of your shot since theres a lot of black sky there. Thanks for sharing! :wavey:
Posted by Todd Caudle on June 6, 2010 at 8:08 AM
Well that's certainly menacing! I agree with Stan on the crop, since there's nothing going on over on the left side anyhow.
Posted by Morris McClung on June 6, 2010 at 9:38 AM
That's excellent. I like the contrast of pure white light and the warm lights from town. Ditto on the crop.
Posted by Momo Vuyisich on June 6, 2010 at 12:10 PM
This is a great shot. I am using Mozilla and it looks awesome. Thanks for sharing. :smile:
Posted by Joshua Hardin on June 6, 2010 at 12:20 PM
Sweet. Perfect color on this. Looks good in Google Chrome too.
Posted by Bob Falcone on June 6, 2010 at 12:25 PM
Very nice shot you captured there (and looks just fine in Firefox).
Posted by Koveh Tavakkol on June 6, 2010 at 1:59 PM
Awesome shot..also agree with others on a tighter crop.
Posted by Kurt Budde on June 6, 2010 at 2:21 PM
Gah you couldn't pay me to install IE =P Course I'm on a linux box at the moment anyway.

Either way, looks fine to me in fox and chrome - maybe you've got a setting messed up somewhere? Awesome shot!
Posted by Grant Collier on June 6, 2010 at 3:42 PM
Sweet shot! I saw this storm driving home last night and was wishing I had my camera...
Posted by Jack Garrett on June 6, 2010 at 4:35 PM
Great shot Mr. Hatfield... :toast:
Posted by bill meikle on June 6, 2010 at 7:43 PM
Very nice.
Posted by Paul Wegemann on June 6, 2010 at 7:46 PM
Crop or not, this is awesome!
Posted by Steven Peckham on June 6, 2010 at 11:02 PM

Very nice looking shot. I am in the crop camp as well so that the storm gets more emphasis.

On a side, this image looks like it has several strikes. This must have been a very active storm.
Posted by Scott Fricke on June 6, 2010 at 11:10 PM
Amazing shot! I like the layering of the clouds and how the lightning strikes are right where the rain is coming down. Great work!
Posted by Brian Jackson on June 6, 2010 at 11:34 PM
I was watching this from my house and now am kicking myself for not going out. Nice shot.
Posted by Pam Colander on June 7, 2010 at 12:30 AM
Wow! Reminds me of War of the Worlds...some alien ship in a protective bubble...sweet shot!
Posted by Kathryn Engle on June 7, 2010 at 12:56 AM
Very impressive!
Posted by Jason J. Hatfield on June 8, 2010 at 1:29 AM
Thanks for all the comments! I was really excited to capture this and the image drove over 1000 image views to my website!

Here is a tighter crop of the image. Let me know what you think but I don't want to go any closer as I'll lose foreground or have to adjust the aspect ratio.

[img]http://mountainskyphotography.com/Colorado/Colorado/Front-Range-Lightning/891287851_Tq3SE-S-1.jpg[/img]