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I just had to share this photo...it is so very interesting. At first, I thought "it must be digitally doctored, for sure"...but reading the photographer's comments maybe not. There is so much texture and debth in the clouds and the lightening striking the water...then the clear sky and stars....and the lights....wow!

Click the photo to view/download a large copy...Cheers-

http://www.panoramio.com/photo/1282387

Thanks for sharing Sherban, that shot is real cool!Can't say that living in the lightening capitol of the country (perhaps the world?) that I've ever seen the sky like that with all the clouds lit up.

Quick story about my fear of lightening and yes, I do live South of Tampa which puts me kind of right smack in the middle of it all I grew up in a Cape style home, the stairway going up to the 2nd floor was enclosed. Whenever there was a good ol' New England thunderstorm I would head for the stairway and sit it out...reason why??? The lightening could NOT "see" me there and strike me!
LOL, to this day I am so frightened of it! Across the street from our present home we had a strike and it cracked the damn tree right in half. The poor thing was on fire and smoking. We could feel the "power" of that strike go right through our bodies. The damn garage door hasn't worked correctly since.

Gotta love and respect Mother Nature

Enjoy,
Kathy

Addendum:

Just for the record; my thoughts that the lightening couldn't see me, was when I was a very young girl!

That IS an awesome photo!

The lightning bolt hitting the water reminded me of the part of the book "Embarrasment of Mangoes" where they were passing back across the Mona passage and the husband was up on the boat deck at night in the storm listening to the lightening "sizzle" when it hit the water around him....he finally admitted his fear the next day, I think...YIKES!

Yes, respect mother nature...

On our honeymoon in Jamaica, my husband got it in his head to arrange a fishing trip with a local who took us out in a leaky-looking boat with bamboo rods and string for fishing poles. Half an hour out, the sky darkened and the waves got huge. The boat rocked and lightning started to flash down all around us. I was petrified, especially when the local, who was smoking the fattest joint I've ever seen, laughed and said, "Don't worry, lady. If it is your time to go, it is your time to go."

I really thought were going to die that day.

(And that *is* a gorgeous photo.)

Maryanne wrote:On our honeymoon in Jamaica, my husband got it in his head to arrange a fishing trip with a local who took us out in a leaky-looking boat with bamboo rods and string for fishing poles. Half an hour out, the sky darkened and the waves got huge. The boat rocked and lightning started to flash down all around us. I was petrified, especially when the local, who was smoking the fattest joint I've ever seen, laughed and said, "Don't worry, lady. If it is your time to go, it is your time to go."

I really thought were going to die that day

M- That is a hilarious story, reminds me of two stories...one is that two of the guys who went down in the boat from "A Perfect Storm" were in my Highschool class...one in my homeroom (a really nice guy)...wierd. The other story was a white water rafting trip from Roanoke Virginia to the Gauley River in W VA...where the "guides" were smoking joints while driving on the way there and I figured we were doomed...I think I drank a little water from the rapids that day but obviously survived...