Fireworks and Lightning

[SharkBait]

This was a bit of a lucky shot.
Here in Vancouver we have an event called the Celebration of Light, where countries compete via a fireworks display and on one particular night we had a rare storm where lightning was streaking across the sky.



Not the greatest of fireworks, but the lightning bolt is pretty cool.
I just had the camera set up during the lightning storm to do 10-20 second exposures, with f11 at ISO 100 and set to Bulb. Though during the fireworks themselves i was doing 1-4 second exposures and the above photo is one from the shorted exposures.

You can check out the rest of them (fireworks and lightning) here if you want: Lightning and Fireworks on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

What do you think?

[wal]

thanks for sharing,

[Mike_N]

That is an awesome shot.. Lightning is sometimes hard to capture.

[toyotacolin]

here are few shots I took this last 4th of july. in alamogordo NM These are all real shots that I took, not p.s. together.