Lighting Photos

[ron_c]

Shot these years ago with a 35mm. On the second shot, the lighting hit closer and that was it, time to go inside.

 

[Detector Man]

i ALWAYS wanted to try that....Great example of lighting pictures.

However, we rarely get lightning out here...sometimes not even once a year to give you an idea

 

[Kelley (Texas)]

We get some bad thunderstorms down here in South Texas with lots of lightening, but I have not been brave enough to try to photograph them. They are dangerous and just plain unpredictable. I once saw a lightening bolt strike a tree, broke it in half and drove it into the ground. I have never forgotten it and now use caution when caught out in a bad storm. Thanks for sharing these pictures. Kelley (Texas)

 

[ron_c]

We get some bad thunderstorms down here in South Texas with lots of lightening, but I have not been brave enough to try to photograph them. They are dangerous and just plain unpredictable. I once saw a lightening bolt strike a tree, broke it in half and drove it into the ground. I have never forgotten it and now use caution when caught out in a bad storm. Thanks for sharing these pictures. Kelley (Texas)

These were taken in North Central Texas.

Years ago, my Father In Law ask me if I would help him round up his cows as they had gotten out of his pasture. We found where they had gotten out. He had a new fence put in about 2 weeks prior and lighting had stuck one of the metal fence posts. There wasn't any paint left on the post and all 5 strains of barbed wire were broke. When I check the wires, the ends were black and the wire was melted. The post had to be replaced and about 12 feet of wire had to be replaced as the wire was now soft.

I hadn't ridden a horse since I was a teen and I was trying to remember everything, is it left stirrup clutch and right stirrup brake and the horse I got didn't understand a word of English at all. It didn't understand Whoa, Stop, Left, Right. Boy, what a stupid horse. Finally found the stupid cows about 2 miles away and only by telling them (cows) there was as many Twinkies as they could eat did we finally get them back in the pasture.

 

[Roscue2]

We have some pretty spectacular lightning shows over here in Cali. They are usually during March to April here.

 

[Kelley (Texas)]

The lightening bolt shattering the tree and driving it into the ground happened when I was fourteen years old. We were out rounding up some half wild mama cows and their calves when that storm hit us with very little warning...it formed fast. The tree was about a half mile from me when the lightening bolt hit it. I finally found some shelter for me and the horse below a ridge with a deer trail leading to a dry creek. We could always find some part time work on the ranches and the pay for rounding up the cows was good, a lot better than loading hay in the field. Kelley (Texas)