The most amazing picture you'll ever see

[252]

Whoa. Thats awesome. That must have taken some increadabe luck, tho.

[Chris42050]

i had a friend watch lightning hit no more then 10 feet from his car. said it was the most glorious thing he'd ever seen.

Had the same thing happen to me when I was backing out of my driveway. It was so bright. It looked like daytime for a second. It was unbelievable.

[tyrion2323]

I dunno, there are some pretty sensible naysayers on the forums. He's not providing the original shot - it has been photoshopped. I've seen trees and poles get hit by lightening and the ground underneath them is always messed up...didn't really see much evidence of that.

[BlackVCG]

I'll bet that got rid of that pesky chipmunk that was living in that tree...

[1stdeadeye]

Where is the DeLorean with the Flux Capacitor?

[MantisMag]

hehe i saw that too. soon i will have one of those cameras. very soon.

[mikey101]

quite a spectacular pic for sure! two days ago we had a pretty nasty storm go through, had the standard thunder and lightning. There was one strike though that hit about 20 feet from our house which was exactly where i was looking out my window at the time. obviously i had a few choice words to say after that, i've never been that freaked by thunder and lightning! Definitly the loudest thing i've heard in a while, killed the power in my house and my high dollar 56k modem



Good stuff though, the thunder/lightning duo are very cool!

[Kai]

I would love to see a full-res version of the uncropped photo...

It was a much more interesting picture before he chopped it up.

Tyrion: It's real. He posted full, non-PS'ed versions of it, and also had the backing of several people who have experienced similar things first-hand.

[mjs1217]

Whoa...that's a great pic. I think that this ties for most amazing picture i've ever seen...The other picture is:
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[CaptaiN_JacK]

I'm not too sure if the rest of you caught this, but he said he was using 30 sec exposure so those bolts probably didnt happen at the same time.

[Flow_Tech]

id have a load of...something in my pants..

[WickeDKlowN]

I'm not too sure if the rest of you caught this, but he said he was using 30 sec exposure so those bolts probably didnt happen at the same time.

nobody cares about the ones in the background, lol.

the mortar one looks kinda photoshopped to me.

[personman]

The other picture is:
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Hahah is that picture supposed to be funny?

[SlartyBartFast]

the mortar one looks kinda photoshopped to me.

Read the whole thread about the pictures and look at the before picture, picture of the damaged tree, and the uncropped version of the strike.

There's no way that's photoshopped.

If it was, the guy belongs at ILM or someother high end special effects company.

[Bolter]

Hahah is that picture supposed to be funny?

i think he's saying that the timing of the shot is great making this an amaizing photo (unless its a photochopped). The mortar must be going at some speed.