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| p.1 #1 · p.1 #1 · Nighttime Lightning Storm, Early AM Rocket Launch | |
An interesting combination of opportunities while on vacation last month - sitting on my balcony on the 5th floor of my villa at Disney World's Boulder Ridge Resort, after a long day in the parks, a big supercell formed over the lakes and drifted east in typical central Florida fashion...Back home in south Florida I rarely get to shoot lighting because it's too close and I'd be too unprotected, or the view from the flat 1 story houses is blocked by all the trees and other buildings.
Taken with a Sony A6600, Sony 18-135mm lens, on tripod, remote IR release running 8 second exposures just guessing on the timing based on the last strike:
https://pbase.com/zackiedawg/image/173728813/original.jpg
https://pbase.com/zackiedawg/image/173728817/original.jpg
https://pbase.com/zackiedawg/image/173728819/original.jpg
https://pbase.com/zackiedawg/image/173728820/original.jpg
In the early AM hours on that same night, SpaceX was scheduled for a launch a bit after 3am - Kennedy Space Center is just 50 miles or so from Disney, and my balcony was facing dead-east...so it seemed a good chance to also catch a shot of the launch, if the weather cleared. I woke at 3am to find perfectly clear skies and a rising crescent moon...so I stopped down the aperture to handle a long bulb exposure, and just opened the shutter when the rocket launched, leaving it open until it dropped off the screen:
https://pbase.com/zackiedawg/image/173728821/original.jpg
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