This
was not long after sunset. This was the only shot worth keeping that
came from a very weak patch of decaying convection. There was a cold
pool in the mid-upper levels leading to the instability. At this stage
I thought the night was over. |
I
had just gone to bed at around 12:30am when I heard thunder. I grabbed
the camera and was treated to the sight of a CG just to my west. Around
the corner and this is the first shot I got, the bolts were raining
down that frequently that I could get nice short exposures. |
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The great thing about these shots is due to the small exposure times 10-50 secs, there was no noise and dead pixels to clean.
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The
speed at which this small cell moved was quite fast, in the
space of 5-6 exposures the cell had moved overhead and in this
case behind me. |
Not
one drop of rain fell during this short but intense lightning barrage -
I love this shot as it shows just how insignificant the cloud structure
was. | 
Time
to move, luckilly only a few days earlier I had scouted out a nice
position just 2kms from home at the entrance of Lake Illawarra . I
would normally go straight to the beach, but wanted to get more
interest into the foreground. |
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