Incredible lightning strikes
An amazing capture of lightning striking the CN Tower in Toronto, Canada on August 24, 2011.
Photographer Mike Tan took the shot from nearby Polson Pier: "It was a bit frightening at times, seeing that the strikes were not more than 5km away. But then the photographer forgets danger, just to get 'the shot.'"
(Photo courtesy of mike.tan © All rights reserved 2011)
Photographer Mike Tan took the shot from nearby Polson Pier: "It was a bit frightening at times, seeing that the strikes were not more than 5km away. But then the photographer forgets danger, just to get 'the shot.'"
(Photo courtesy of mike.tan © All rights reserved 2011)
An amazing capture of lightning striking the CN Tower in Toronto, Canada on August 24, 2011.
Photographer Mike Tan took the shot from nearby Polson Pier: "It was a bit frightening at times, seeing that the strikes were not more than 5km away. But then the photographer forgets danger, just to get 'the shot.'"
(Photo courtesy of mike.tan © All rights reserved 2011)
Photographer Chris Kotsiopoulos explains how he captured this beautiful photograph of lightning bolts in Greece: "An image sequence containing 70 lightning shots, taken on IkarÃa island, Greece, during a severe thunderstorm that took place June 16, 2011. In order to make the sequence, I set the camera to a tripod taking 20-second shots. After 83 minutes I ended up with this wall of lightning!"
(Photo courtesy of Chris Kotsiopoulos/National Geographic Your Shot)
Lightning flashes over the Las Vegas Strip during a thunderstorm early on September 13, 2011 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
(Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images)
(Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images)
A lightning bolt strikes near the Dubuque County Fair Wednesday night, July 27, 2011 during a storm in Dubuque, Iowa.
(AP Photo/The Telegraph Herald, Dave Kettering)
Lightning strikes over the Puyehue volcano, over 500 miles south of Santiago, Chile, June 6, 2011.
(AP Photo/Francisco Negroni, AgenciaUno)
(AP Photo/Francisco Negroni, AgenciaUno)
A lightning bolt strikes over South Shore, Illinois.
(Photo courtesy of reallyboring © All rights reserved 2011)
(Photo courtesy of reallyboring © All rights reserved 2011)
An incredible photo of lightning bolts striking near Lake Mountain, Utah.
(Photo courtesy of houstonryan © All rights reserved 2011)
(Photo courtesy of houstonryan © All rights reserved 2011)
Lightning flashes over downtown Las Vegas in September 2011.
(AFP Photo/Ethan Miller)
(AFP Photo/Ethan Miller)
Lightning strikes during sunset over Alpine, Utah.
(Photo courtesy of houstonryan © All rights reserved 2011)
(Photo courtesy of houstonryan © All rights reserved 2011)
Huge lightning strikes in Camp Verde, Arizona.
(Photo courtesy of DownTheRoad_AZ © All rights reserved 2011)
(Photo courtesy of DownTheRoad_AZ © All rights reserved 2011)
Lightning strikes over Summerdale, Illinois.
(Photo courtesy of ajdoudt © All rights reserved 2011)
(Photo courtesy of ajdoudt © All rights reserved 2011)
Lightning spreads across the sky over the Russian Orthodox Church of Three Saints in Garfield, N.J., during a storm on Thursday, Aug. 18, 2011.
(AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
Stunning lightning strikes in Lehi, Utah.
(Photo courtesy of houstonryan © All rights reserved 2011)
A dramatic photograph of lightning over Taipei, Taiwan.
(Photo courtesy of johanilsemari © All rights reserved 2011)
(Photo courtesy of johanilsemari © All rights reserved 2011)
