Thursday, February 16, 2006
Sweet Jeebus On A Stick, That's Close...
It's the coolest picture you'll see all week, gauranteed. This is a shot of a bolt of lightning hitting the shooter's neighbors' house, about 20 meters away. NICE! If the image were just a little bigger, this would make some bitchin' desktop wallpaper. I love the purple hues in this shot. Sometimes, with great power comes great beauty; With utter chaos comes pure grace. (Link -- via Fark)From the Fark Thread: A hillarious pwn3d variant using the image by HelmetTesterTJ:
And a comment by mciann, with highlights:That picture is scarier than it seems.Ahhh, the raw power of Mother Nature...See these little tendrils of light I've highlighted? They are stepped leaders - the beginnings of a lightning strike. They go up from the ground to meet the descending charge. One will connect and make the lightning. The others that -almost- created lightning are shown above. Note how close the nearest stepped leader is to the camera. The photographer nearly got themselves KILLED.
