The best pictures you've seen.

[rossmum]

I'm quite sure that you don't go blind from simply looking at a lightning bolt about 200m away, at most you'd have the bolt burned into your vision for a few moments but there's no way it'd blind you...

[Syuusuke]

They could have been taking a video or taking shots within an interval of that time and yadee-yadaa boom.

Besides it could have been zoomed in (doesn't really look like it).

[klange]

You're telling me someone happened to be looking at a building and in the 1 second its actually there they had time to snap a picture of it without being blinded? Lightning heats the air around it to the temperature of the friggin sun, you're not going to be getting that close of picture and see just that.

... I'm not even going to go into much detail on how wrong you are, despite the facts you presented, but I will say this: The picture is not only entirely possible, I've seen countless photos of lightning hitting buildings.

Awesome pic anyway.

[Rob Oplawar]

I should just install a direct digg script, to immediately repost everything on digg here as soon as it comes up. that'd save me the 5 seconds it takes me to copy and paste. lol.

[n00b1n8R]

Phobias wanted it.

[Phobias]

Phobias now has it.

Commence sexual favours.

[Bodzilla]

Awesome.

higher rez?

[n00b1n8R]

I've seen it on /b/ and /v/ a few times and this is the highest res I've found.

[Reaper Man]

You're telling me someone happened to be looking at a building and in the 1 second its actually there they had time to snap a picture of it without being blinded? Lightning heats the air around it to the temperature of the friggin sun, you're not going to be getting that close of picture and see just that.

Well, that shot was probably lucky, but if you are serious about taking lightning photos - lightning trigger http://www.lightningtrigger.com/

Also, what ross said.

[epic pic]
I should just install a direct digg script, to immediately repost everything on digg here as soon as it comes up. that'd save me the 5 seconds it takes me to copy and paste. lol.

found photo in higher res :awesome:
http://science.nationalgeographic.co...-a0e722-xl.jpg

[Heathen]

You're telling me someone happened to be looking at a building and in the 1 second its actually there they had time to snap a picture of it without being blinded? Lightning heats the air around it to the temperature of the friggin sun, you're not going to be getting that close of picture and see just that.

I watched lightening strike a man and his son on the beach and kill them both. I was about 4 cars distance away. We could smell the flesh. I wasn't blinded or toasted. Did hurt my ears though.