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I like the lightning, but I’m biased in that direction.

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I got pretty lucky with my first attempt last night.

That doesn’t look like luck. That looks like being prepared and in the right place at the right time…

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Many of us were saying “You’re gonna WHAT?!?” when we heard they were planning on making a giant rubber dam in the middle of the desert to make what they call a “lake” but is really a concrete-lined “Town Canal.”

The whole thing is simply redonkulous.

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Welcome to Farktography!

This Week’s Theme: “These Foolish Games” b>

Description: Description: Dirty stuff. But nothing sexual.

Wait… what?

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Dunno about the rest of you, but I’d be all for the IRL reference to a game, or the recreational paintball.

As Ravnostic said, as long as we’re not seeing pictures of “sports” that most people only watch and don’t participate in – right?

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My ‘no sport’ objective was to keep out the football/baseball/basketball/soccer/and ice hockey shots. We see those images all the time in the papers. Golf, too. I wanted images we don’t see all the time.

You approved mine. Full-scale athletics, no profit, definite rules, definite winning team, and it’s not football/baseball/basketball/soccer/hockey/pro wrestling…

Should be fun, wot?

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Thanks! Anyone in the metro Phoenix area’s welcome to ping me – we can go shoot.

(I’m kind of without a car for the moment… the Forester has a couple of cracked CV boots, and I really need to get those repaired/replaced before I drive much…)

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If I had taken that shot, I’d be combing the desert for the glass tube of crispified sand as a keepsake. Nice shot!

I’ve looked for them, and never been able to find fulgurites from the strikes that I get pictures of.

In this case, I’m not sure I can even get to the location, as it appears to be on private property.

I didn’t get much sleep last night. Didn’t even have to drive anywhere (and had made a deal with my wife… I was out Friday night and Saturday night, so I’d stay home Sunday night.)

From my driveway:

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During the day, I use a trigger based on an Arduino microcontroller that measures ambient infrared, and pops the shutter when there’s a spike in IR:

(clickr for Flickr, more links to the trigger “how-to” from there)

At night, I set for ambient (good exposure of city skyline, whatever) and bang out long exposures until lightning strikes in the frame. A solid tripod and a cable release are required for ths (I simply set the lock on the cable release to force the camera to repeatedly click off exposures until I unlock it.)

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Long night chasing. 300+ images to sort and process.

Best so far:

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NICE!

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Another fun time last night.

(and this one should have happened a week ago, so I could have used it for “Black, White, Grey”…)

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Annoying is good. Forces us to stretch a bit.

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The only problem with “subdued color” is defining what “subdued” really is, which could be…challenging. On the other hand, we’ve had a number of actual black and white shots submitted despite the theme saying “color photos”

And a couple that look very much like selective desaturation.

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I’ve never liked any of the attempts I’ve made at HDR of the storms. There’s always something about the result that just puts me off.

But I did do several exposures…

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