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

I don't think it's worth it. Euphro, you obvouisly hadn't got anything better to do than take 948 shots of lightning. Need to get out more, dude!

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.