Stormy Seas

[Mad Aussie]

For some reason the images from Flickr aren't showing as sharp as they used to here. Can't be sure if it's a Flickr thing because they changed some things recently or it's the site upgrade.

Another link to the photo http://www.flickr.com/photos/astrovi...4102/lightbox/

[Matt K.]

Superp, simply superb

[Mad Aussie]

Thanks very much Matt

[Iguanasan]

Holy crap! That looks dangerous! Beautifully captured.

[Mad Aussie]

Holy crap! That looks dangerous! Beautifully captured.

Salt water, carbon sails, 1 trillion volts of electricity ... what could go wrong??

[Bambi]

I agree that it looks dangerous and it looks fabulous too! well done!

[Mad Aussie]

It's ok ... a little electricity never hurt anyone

[mbrager]

Very cool shot. Am I right thinking that you waited with an open camera shutter for the lightning to strike so the lightning could act as a flash to expose the boats? I agree that your Flickr version looks sharper and slightly larger than here, and I noticed that generally the forum seems to be compressing images, even ones linked from elsewhere. Mike

[Mad Aussie]

Very cool shot. Am I right thinking that you waited with an open camera shutter for the lightning to strike so the lightning could act as a flash to expose the boats?

It would have been cool if that's how I did it but the honest truth is this was just a bland shot of the boats against a featureless sky. So I took a lightning shot I took years back and that's the result.

[mbrager]

Well, it's still a cool trick shot. Mike