Tonight we had another massive lightning storm. We got a lot of these here in Texas, and I was workin it with my camera this evening. I stayed out capturing these photos until the lightning was within about a mile or two of me. The sound was deafening! I literally had to put ear plugs in because it was painful. My wife thought I was crazy too. ;-)

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	eliekhoury Amazing photography by John P. RT @johnpoz: Lightning Storm Over Frisco, Texas http://onemansblog.com/l4p
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	johnpoz Fisheye HD Video (from my Canon 5D II) of the storm added to my Lightning Photos from last night: http://onemansblog.com/l4p
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I caught a photo of some lighting from my back porch just before a storm last week. It was actually a little harder than I thought it was going to be, and I’m going to have to really practice a bit more in the future.

This strike was photographed using a Canon 5D Mark II with a 70-200mm f/2.8 IS lens. ISO was set at 100 and the exposure was 5 seconds.

Click through on that image for a larger view, or if you would like access to the full size version, I posted it over on Flickr.

As if it’s not bad enough to be taking the family for a drive in the old Minivan and get caught in a massive rain storm, these unlucky people had to go and get struck by lightning as well!

Luckily someone behind them had whipped out the video camera, presumably to document how bad the rain was, and caught the strike on film.
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