Lightning Gallery
Over Santa Fe, NM, August 5, 2007
Over Dunlap Lake, Edwardsville, IL, September 18, 2005
Near Pagosa Springs, CO, August 10, 2019
Over Village Lake, Pagosa Springs, CO, August 12, 2013
More lightning pictures from this day's storms can be seen here.
West of Pagosa Springs, CO, June 29, 2015
Looking west across Lake Pagosa, Pagosa Springs, CO, August 5, 2019
Over the San Juan Mountains NW of Pagosa Springs, CO, July 1, 2015
Over Beijing, China, striking South Train Station, May 30, 2008
Same bolt as picture above, with correction for the window I was shooting through and the Beijing smog:
Branched Cloud-to-Cloud Lightning, Edwardsville, IL, August 16, 2009
Lightning north of Troy, IL, September 1, 2014
Daytime Lightning near Santa Fe, NM, July 3, 2008
Daytime lightning near Watrous, NM, July 28, 2009
Over Glik Park, Edwardsville, IL, August 5, 2008
Distant (30+ miles away) from Santa Fe, NM, September 19, 2008
Lightning Along Leading Edge of Snowstorm, west of Santa Fe, NM, March 14, 2010
Cloud-to-Ground Lightning in Winter Thunderstorm with Graupel (Snow Pellets), Pagosa Springs, CO, November 9, 2012
More lightning from a Snowstorm, Wolf Creek Pass area, CO, September 8, 2020
The first image above was my first ever captured with my Lightning Trigger of lightning associated with snow. It was taken as the storm began, accompanied by thunder and lightning. The lower part of the cloud-to-ground flash is clearly visible, but the upper part near the cloud base is hidden by the snow. Had it been rain, you probably could have seen the whole thing. With the snow, though, only the part largely outside the precipitation was highly visible. The second picture shows what the same area looked like a couple days later, as a result of this unusual early-season snowstorm.
Lightning near Gruver, TX, May 26, 2021
Lightning west of Timoas, Colorado, June 16, 2023
More Lightning from the same storm, near Toonerville, CO, June 16, 2023
Over Pagosa Springs, CO, August 13, 2012
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In the Pagosa Springs, CO area, June 15, 2013
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