Caught a little of last night's light show. We don't get much lightning around here and this is the second photo I've ever taken, the last was with a film camera. This was hand held braced against a window frame. ISO 100, 18mm focal length, f/3.5, 2 second exposure......I have no idea what the ideal settings range would be for shooting lightning though I'm guessing a higher aperture value is desirable.

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Sieg,

Yep, those hummingbirds are one tough pic for me to take.

Glad you had a 'spare' to share...sent it off to the wife.

Great thread, many great pics. :thumbsup:

Not mine but worth sharing it seems.

IIRC it was taken last nite in Colorado.

This was takin with an Iphone a while back. Downtown Seattle early morning.

Our "new-to-us" car...

http://blg.nikonsrc.com/image/Ullne5...30eKw/item.JPG

Thought this ended up being good. I was going to post it in a "Random pics of your car" type thread but I didn't see one.
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So - living in the mountains is proving to be real "interesting". Today was 81* - and in less than 2 hours - it dropped to 58*.... and the black sky boiled with lightening and tremendous rains and huge hail....

A strike hit the side of "Sun Peak" -- which happens to be the base of the area we're building our new house here in. You can see the "wind tunnel" effect thanks to the smoke... and thanks to the torrential rains... it was put out. In another 5 minutes those town homes would have been in real peril! The winds were howling and that's never good for containing fires!!



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Sweet!! I had a few of those, fun cars and there's a lot of mods for them

Lightning is sure scarry and as for the temp swing we have 40 and even 70 temps swings here in Chicago all the time.