{"id":7372,"date":"2011-09-11T09:55:38","date_gmt":"2011-09-11T07:55:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.breigh.com\/wordpress\/?p=7372"},"modified":"2011-09-11T10:22:17","modified_gmt":"2011-09-11T08:22:17","slug":"lightning-over-lombardijen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/archives\/7372","title":{"rendered":"Lightning Over Lombardijen"},"content":{"rendered":"

One thing I\u2019ve always wanted was to get some photos of lightning, the really giant fork lightning like you see on all the great photos on Flickr<\/a>.\u00a0 We don\u2019t get a lot of that here in the Netherlands, and if we do we don\u2019t see much because it\u2019s often really cloudy.<\/p>\n

Last night we had a thunder and lightning storm here in Rotterdam and there was a LOT of lightning.\u00a0 Most of it, as usual, was up in the clouds\u2026 but there was some really cool visible lightning too.\u00a0 So I took a stool, my camera and tripod and camped out on my front balcony.\u00a0 I was going to get lightning photos come hell or high water!\u00a0 Uhhh\u2026 and the high water thing was a definite possibility because it rained like mad last night and we do<\/em> live below sea level, after all!<\/p>\n

In the end I didn\u2019t even care if I caught any actual lightning because it was so cool watching the clouds light up in the sky and how each flash brought something different.<\/p>\n

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\nAs you can see, I did end up getting some photos of the lightning anyway, YIPPEEE!!!\u00a0 It was so worth sitting there with a numb arse hitting my shutter every 6 seconds!<\/p>\n

I took so many photos, most of which ended up with nothing on them, but I quickly realized that if I didn\u2019t take photos one immediately after each other, I was going to miss out on something.\u00a0 The few times I did stop to shift on the stool, scratch my leg or adjust the camera\u2026 KABLAMMO!!! MEGA LIGHTNING!!\u00a0 Argggggh!\u00a0 It never failed, every time I wasn\u2019t<\/em> taking a photo, the lightning streaked across the sky in a totally undocumented display.<\/p>\n

Figures\u2026 lesson learned!<\/p>\n

*EDIT* Just saw a video someone posted of the same lightning in Utrecht.\u00a0 It makes me wish I’d also gotten out my P&S and gotten some video too.\u00a0 ANOTHER lesson learned!\u00a0 Here’s the video:<\/p>\n[youtube id=”vB2P48M0aQw” width=”600″ height=”350″]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One thing I\u2019ve always wanted was to get some photos of lightning, the really giant fork lightning like you see on all the great photos on Flickr.\u00a0 We don\u2019t get a lot of that here in the Netherlands, and if we do we don\u2019t see much because it\u2019s often really cloudy. Last night we had …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7377,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[596,881,73],"class_list":["post-7372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-photography","tag-lightning","tag-photography-artsy-fartsy","tag-rotterdam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7372"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7379,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7372\/revisions\/7379"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}