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tomcrocker — Bolt from the purple
Published: 2005-12-01 16:02:27 +0000 UTC; Views: 270; Favourites: 7; Downloads: 23
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In the pyrenees, lots of two second exposures during the lightning storm, this one worked out best. Just a little crop but no other manipulation.Related content
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Don't worry, I'm no Scot, or Welsh boyo for that matter!
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wow.
you get storms like that in england?
thats so cool.
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No, never as interesting as this (well very rarely). This was taken in the Pyrenees whilst staying with my girlfriend who was doing field work.
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oh ok i see! i was gonna say......it DID seem a bit strange to be that violent in england
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Oh yes! Agreement with all that went before (macca, lukeman, si monty et all). Just one of those that looks bloody strikingly good. Fav (although it is half 3 on friday nite/sat morn...............)
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Woohoo, most favourited deviation of mine (only 5 but you know, small victories), I love you all
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This is really great, the purple colouring is beautiful and really adds to the power of the scene. I love all the details in the shot, such as the silhouetted foreground elements like the tree to the left and the clouds and hills and things. They frame the image very nicely indeed. Also the fact we can see the rain falling in sheets is great. The lights from the town or village to the left are also a nice bit of additional interest. What I really like of course though is the lightning which has been very nicely captured indeed. I have always wanted to get shots of lightning but never really managed it. I would add this to my favourites right now but I have just added another Deviation. I will return later though and add this one.
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Wow, thanks very much. Of course I was pretty lucky that the lightning decided to frame itself so nicely where I was pointing the camera but the tree was part of the plan. Also, being in the pyrenees helped with the hills and the extreme weather. It's all too dull and grey in Britain usually, not enough lightning.
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The last time we had a storm was during the Summer I think earlier this year and it wasn't massive and mostly sheet lightning. The lighting from street lamps and houses made it impossible to do any long exposures hoping to catch the lightning.
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my gwad! that's a belter, great great capture, really dramatic, that lightning is well cool to look at man.
Nature + Physics = fucking A. class job man.
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Yeah, physics! (oh Amy says yeah nature)
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physics nature love god feet shoals shawls bars keeps posts ponds thoughts. it's all the same innit?
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you what?
well in one way, but in another the different names help us package things into concepts small enough to deal with in our heads. And I don't think anyone's yet managed to create a combined theory of feet and shawls...
Oh, and although some classifications are just for us it doesn't mean some don't truly reflect reality. Although you may be able to find a branch higher up the tree that joins them or a different axis altogether. (Sorry, you've kind of stumbled into a subject area of mine, but thanks for provoking the thoughts)
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if youy look at the history of science lots of theories are replaced by a theory which is a "higher branch on the tree". For example, Newtons laws explained most things on earth but couldn't account for small variations in the orbits of the planets. Einsteins theory of gravitation (general relativity) explains these, and newtons laws of gravitation are a particuar form of them. Einsteins general relativity also explains why it happens. Which is a plus.
The current best hope we have for any higher theory of how the univerese works on a fundamental level is string theory . This seeks to bind together and expand our current two best theories for describing the universe - quantum theory and relaitivity. this kind of fits the same pattern.
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i meant from the right....
you know what i mean even if i dont
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Well it's double posts for everyone on this picture! Thanks very much, always appreciated
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dude, that is also awesome, that is some picture, love the lightning, love the mist rising out of the land and like the pine tree wto the left which is where your eye rests having been puled from the left by the lightning. excellent!!
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