Photographer Captures Lightning Striking Christ the Redeemer Statue
A photographer describes his photo of lightning striking the Christ the Redeemer Statue as a "dream come true."
Lightning Strikes at Exact Moment Girlfriend Accepts Marriage Proposal
Wedding photographer Danika Camba captured a once-in-a-lifetime photo when lightning struck at the exact moment a woman said "yes" to her boyfriend's marriage proposal.
Storm-Chasing Photographer’s Car Struck by Lightning on Camera
A storm-chasing photographer was out in Iowa documenting a tornado when the car he was driving was struck and disabled by a bolt of lightning. The hair-raising incident was caught on multiple cameras.
Teens Snap Selfie At Exact Moment They’re Struck by Lightning
Three teens posed to take a selfie together when lightning struck the trio. That exact moment was captured on camera.
Lightning Strikes Feet Away from Man While His Camera is Rolling
A man in Norway has captured what it's like to have a lightning bolt strike just feet away. Watch the 1.5-minute video above to see the terrifying experience from his perspective (warning: turn your speakers down because it's extremely loud).
This Lightning Photo is 5.45 Gigapixels
Gigapixel photos and lightning photos are generally created two different ways. One requires a mosaic of photos stitched together, and the other is usually a wide-angle view that's exposed at the moment of a lightning strike. That's what makes photographer Dan Piech's image "The Hand of Zeus" so amazing: it's a 5.449-gigapixel photo of a lightning strike in New York City.
Slow Motion Lightning Strike Captured on an iPhone
It's not 7,207fps to be sure, but this hand-held slow motion iPhone video of lightning lighting up the sky above Ashburn, Virgina is still really cool—all the more so for how accessible shooting slow motion footage like this has become.
Watch Lightning Explode Over the World’s Tallest Building at 1977FPS
A massive thunderstorm over Dubai was recently captured in super slow motion at 1977 frames per second.
How I Captured Lightning Striking the Tallest Building in the World
My name name is Rustam Azmi, and I'm a photographer based in Dubai. I recently captured this photo of lightning striking the Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest skyscraper. In this post I'll share a little about how the shot was made.
A Script for Easily Finding Lightning Strike Stills Inside HD Video
Photographer Saulius Lukse recently decided to try his hand at shooting video to capture photos of a lightning strike rather than using a special trigger for still photos. The technique worked well, and is rather efficient thanks to a special script Lukse wrote to quickly find frames containing lightning.
Perfectly Timed Lightning Strike Makes for an Epic, Electrifying Engagement Photo
First things first: the photo above isn't a composite. In fact, as Elizabeth van der Bij of ENV Photography jokingly explained in the comments on her Facebook page, her Photoshop skills "suck", so she couldn't have faked it even if she had wanted to.
No, the Alberta-based photographer and the couple, Kassandra & Craig, simply stuck it out and kept taking pictures as the storm approached until, as luck would have it, the Universe delivered in a big way.
NASA Releases Beautiful Photographs of Lightning Taken from the ISS
If it ever was a secret, it sure isn't anymore: we LOVE photos from space. And judging by the response we typically get to sharing them, so do you, which is why we were so excited when we stumbled across these magnificent images of lightning NASA released just a couple of days ago.
Perfect Timing: Photog Captures Lightning Striking the Tallest Building on Earth
Michael Shainblum captured this perfectly timed (call it luck if you want, but luck favors the prepared, so we're going with perfectly timed) shot of lightning striking the Burj Khalifa during a storm on Wednesday of last week.
Awe-Inspiring Photo of a Grand Canyon Lightning Strike
This incredible photo of a lightning strike at the South Rim of the Grand Canyon was shot by photo and videographer Travis Roe in July of 2012. A spectacular capture by a photog who has been shooting lightning since he was a teenager, the most surprising thing about this photo is that it went viral only after it somehow didn't even place in the National Parks Service 2012 photo contest.
Incredible High Speed Video of Lightning Captured at 11,000 Frames Per Second
According to the Encyclopedia of World Climatology, lightning happens about 40–50 times per second worldwide; that translates into almost 1.4 billion flashes per year. But of the 1.4 billion that happen in 2011, we're pretty sure this was the only one captured at 11,000 frames per second, turning a one second lightning flash into an incredible 6 minute experience.
One in a Million Double-Exposure Photo Caused by a Lightning Strike
Photographing a lightning strike from close-up is a difficult and dangerous task, but Toronto-based wedding photographer and weather buff Richard Gottardo managed to capture something even crazier: a double-exposure photograph caused by the bolt of lightning itself.