5 thoughts on “A storm system over the Bahamas.”
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Laurence Green says: Mike,
My apologies for naming you as “Mark”. I meant “Mike”. Oh, dearey me! Must get my specs changed….
Laurence
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Laurence Green says:
Thanks kindly, Mark, for taking the time to reply – it is always good to hear from folk like you and fill in the details behind the photo as portrayed on the CAS Photo Gallery.
Laurence
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Michael Sharp says:
Laurence and Rebecca thanks for your comment. Yes it is The Bahamas but I am not there again. Just a hangover from the three years there previously. This was taken in a September and yes April is too early. Following work in The Bahamas I have retired and remain so. I live not in Scotland but the East Midlands. I did recently revisit Penang for three weeks to try out my new Z7 camera. Missed the really exciting weather there (see the video posted by me but not taken by me of a large waterspout that passed the apartment where I stayed in clouds in video) by a few days but it showed its potential with some lovely tropical sunsets and sunrises. However lightning photography has been my passion since I took my first shot in 1973 in Perth, WA.
The right place at the right time was actually on the balcony of the apartment I rented in Nassau which was 30m from the water’s edge. Frustrating when a storm is on the other side of the building but it soon moved the the open sea and gave me many good photos. Storms are always about right time, right place and right camera settings. They can be planned for knowing the weather locally or just keeping ones eye’s open knowing the conditions.
This shot was of lightning appearing to move ‘up’ as the configuration suggests.
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rebeccahill@iinet.net.au says:
Beautiful and dramatic storm picture out to sea over the Bahama Islands, Mike!
Certainly had been at the right place at the right time in order to capture such an amazing shot at night! Didn’t think that such storms happen over the Bahama Islands in the Caribbean in mid-April(spring for them), as I though they occurred much more often in Summer(June/July/August) when the summer temperatures and humidity are definitely at their highest and most uncomfortable. Can’t stand 35 degrees and 90% humidity in summer- a storm in the evening would certainly provide much needed relief!
The lightning appears almost like a dead tree, with it many off-shoot branches or like a set of twisted forks about to haunt and then reach out to its onshore victims! The dark blue/green sea in the foreground looks surprisingly calm!
From Rebecca Hill, Canberra, Australia
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Laurence Green says:
Hi Mike!
As ever, from you, a fantastic photo. A supreme capture. Love it much indeed!
I recall some months ago you returned to the UK in Scotland and now it seems you are back in the Bahamas. I thought you retired – some 3 times, I think – but it seems you are back in work again. At least, behind the camera and producing lovely photo work and able to witness marvellous spectacular vistas like the one portrayed in your photo/
It is a pleasure to see your photographic work again. “BIFFO”!
Best wishes and wishing you a very Happy Easter.
Laurence
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4 thoughts on “A storm system over the Bahamas.”
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Michael Sharp says:
Once again thanks laurence…
That should have said three ‘hour’ (implying long) storm…
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Laurence Green says:
Thanks, Mike, for your informative reply. Much appreciated!
Lightning, so I have read in various journals etc is far higher in terms of temperature than that of our Sun, like 5 times higher.
More info about this here:-
https://www.weather.gov/safety/lightning-temperature
Geez! What a planet we live on!
Best wishes renewed to you.
Laurence
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Michael Sharp says:
Yes Laurence thanks very much. I did send in to Ian at CAS a series of 4 photos of a storm that was going on at the front (otherside) of the apartment block away from my view overlooking the sea. These lightning ‘threads’ were overreaching the building. One has two such threads one from the right and one from the left like they were hand shaking.
I also pointed out that the very ends of this lacy lightning was either pale orange/pink or blue. Not remembering this storm fully as it started away from my view I am not sure if it was a quick whizz bang kind of storm or one that lasts for some hours. I believe the former so this might be just inter-cloud lightning. Lightning types in my experience varies depending on the type of storm. A quick convection storm equalising the days energy imbalance has one form but a long three storm starts with this type moves to dangerous down strikes and then ‘anvil crawlers’ as the storm swells and moves by.
And a Happy Christmas and New Year to you too.
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Laurence Green says:
Brilliant shot, as ever, from you, Mike!
What a capture, eh?!!?
Thanks for sharing this marvel with us.
I wish you a very nice and happy Christmas and all that is best for you in the New Year,
Best wishes.
Laurence
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Hi Rebecca it was taken like the other on 9/9/2013 but 11minutes later at 1831 precisely according to the RAW file info. Yes very complex but from another view it may unravel to something simpler. Such is the nature of lightning. Now why does it follow the path it does. For that reference books are required. I have ‘The Lightning Flash’ from what was the IEE (Institution of Electrical Engineers) but the majority of it is very mathematical. Maybe dusting it off would be a good move.
Mike Sharp
Another spectacular, mid-spring lightning storm picture in the evening over the Bahama Islands, Mike!
The lightning, which looks like twisted, tree-branched fingers reaching out across the sky, though the dark-blue coloured Caribbean sea in the foreground appears calm!
From Rebecca Hill, Canberra, Australia