You don't see many shots of lightning in daylight

definitely worth it! thats some pretty lightning.

we're waiting for a storm here to clear the air.

Fantastic, Euphro! I tried and tried to capture daylight lightning last week. All I got was a very tired me, no lightning capture.

fan flippin tastic...and scary too......

superb...and very very highlight worthy, if just for all your hard work!...great stuff

Woohoo! A highlight! Thanks very much; it makes it all worthwhile :)

I have a high-res version if anybody would like to have a look at it up close :)

wow, thats some serious work you've been putting in there, Euphro. well worth it, dude.

*sulks* no-one highlighted my lightning photos.. :)

nice photo though. getting a strike captured is really satisfying, and in daylight too. (it's much easier in the dark - I only shot about 150 frames last night!)

Yeah Id like to see it close up, can you post a link somewhere?

that'll teach me to be doing hijax proof of concepts instead of browsing for highlights of an evening :D

Thanks for all the kind comments. Sorry your shots didn't get highlighted, mat, they are spectacular. I'll stick the high-res version on Flickr and post a link ASAP :)

The high-res version is here :)

Geeeenuis!

yours is better, to be fair. anyone can point an open shutter at the sky, getting shots in daylight is stunning. :)

That is very very kind of you mat; that means a lot to me :)

What Camera did you use ?

Gary, I used a Nikon D50 (I must add some tags) :)

oh excellent :) i tried to get some at 2am last night but it was all sheety, forgot in my -half asleep and being blinded by lightning- state about the best pic feature on the k800i! doh.

for a half second exposure that is some luck :-) Great shot, well done - the hard yakka's paid off. Congrats on the HL

Fabulous

Thank you all! :D

oh, very worth it. Just gorgeous!

Wow, very cool. And very worth it indeed.

Amazing shot. =D

Could you send some thunder up here please? We're wilting and need something to break it!

great shot - will look at high res version

super, I'm near enough to hear thunder but not get any rain : )

Fantastic, well done : )

Wow - it looks like you can see the bolts point of origin.

Smart pic

Oh wow. That almost looks as though it's headed straight for you!

Thanks Hward, but I didn't :) I'd just lost power due to the storm; my adsl modem had just been fried so I couldn't do any work; if you do the sums, 948 shots at 2 frames per second, even allowing for buffer refreshes, takes about 10 minutes. I don't think it was a bad use of my time :D

Nicely done Euphro!
Well done for having all that patience.