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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