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Lightning Bolt

mayday
Posted 15/10/2010 - 15:08 Link
[img]This is the moment a lightning bolt appears to strike the Statue of Liberty in New York. New York photographer Jay Fine had spent the night braving the storm in Battery Park City, Manhattan, in a bid to get the perfect picture. Jay spent nearly two hours poised with his camera and took more than 80 shots before striking lucky with this particular bolt of lightning at 8.45pm on 22 September. He said he had been waiting 40 years to get the picture.

To capture the shots Jay used a N**** D300s with 60mm f/2.8 lens on the following settings: Aperture: F/10, Shutterspeed: 5 seconds, ISO: 200.
Regards
David

Retired at last - now all that time for photography - you would think: wink:
Edited by moderator: 15/10/2010 - 15:54
snappychappy
Posted 15/10/2010 - 15:18 Link
Saw this in the press, a very impressive image, the guy had some determination to get this shot. Awesome.
Zevon
Posted 15/10/2010 - 15:35 Link
What a great shot in a very impressive location
Regards
Seán

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thoughton
Posted 15/10/2010 - 15:45 Link
Cool image, but someone beat you to it and posted a link yesterday
Tim
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johnriley
Posted 15/10/2010 - 15:56 Link
Please use links when posting other people's images to the forum - we don't have copyright to use the image - and in any event this forum is for Pentax images. A link to this image is fine and has already been posted, as above.
Best regards, John

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