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Cheers for that, it has been realy bad here and I had things unplugged during the worst of it.

It's mostly passed on now (although I still hear the occasional rumble, and the lights flicker every now and then), how local is "local" ;)

<WoW! Cue enormous clap of thunder as I posted that :Yikes: talk about timing :) >

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RAIN!!!!!! YAY!!!!! :D . There was a nice breeze earlier though.

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It has been proved that an underground cable is more likely to be struck than an overground one. The strike would have to be very local and by that I mean 30-40 feet away. It also depends on the character of the strike... Sounds silly I know but no two strikes will have the same patern or travel the same route.

Its all down to luck. When there are hundreds of thousands of volts traveling through the air it will go where it likes !!!

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Well the rain has stopped here and it is started to warm up again....no thunder storm though :(

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Ok, cool. Thanks for that I'll switch it off then, before I get stru............:shocking:

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have a look at these pictures what a sight!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/h...005/html/1.stm

the third one is just simply amazing :eek:

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wow :Yikes:

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Thats some nice shots of lightening strikes !!!

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How are they taken ? I know by camera but the speed of lightning must mean they either got reflex that quite fast or super fast camera shutter speed ?

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From what I gather it is more by luck than good judgement or very long shutter speeds and a tripod...

I would like to take pics like that but whenever there is a storm my camera is usually miles away.

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You were right, not a bowl bowled or a hot dogged. :(

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Generally it's easiest to take lightning pics at night because you can just leave the shutter open on "bulb" setting without worrying about completely over-exposing the film.

It *is* possible in daylight, but you need a very good Neutral Density filter to allow you to do a long exposure and a fair bit of luck (or a convenient high point in the distance that's likely to get struck repeatedly during a storm).

PS And use a tripod and a remote release to avoid camera shake!

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I can see that speed dating would never work for you Graham.

"My hobbies? Well I'm into sadomasochism and photography. Yourself?"

:D

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Hey, you never know! :D

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Actually, you may have a point :erm: :D