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20-Aug-2020 jimmsp

06 White Lightning

Green Valley, AZ

Song by George Jones:
(Whew whay soway) white lightning

In the Arkansas mountains way back in the hills
Lived my old pappy we had us a still
We brewed white lightning till the sun went down
And we take out a jug and we pass it around
Mighty, mighty pleasin', my pappy's corn squeezin'
(Whew whay soway) white lightning.

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Canon Image Challenge31-Aug-2020 01:23
Heart hooked me with "Crazy on You".

Dave
Canon Image Challenge29-Aug-2020 22:23
D - I would never have thought of that one. Not high on my list.

Jim
Canon Image Challenge29-Aug-2020 21:47
Made me think of this song as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_rcTEF3e7o

Dave
Canon Image Challenge22-Aug-2020 14:34
Actually, I was referring to captures that night, when I said "best".
I never shot a lot of lightning before the last couple of years.
Most of what I have shot and seen is cloud to cloud

Jim

Aside - I found this from the National Storms Laboratory
Does lightning strike from the sky down, or the ground up?
The answer is both. Cloud-to-ground lightning comes from the sky down, but the part you see comes from the ground up. A typical cloud-to-ground flash lowers a path of negative electricity (that we cannot see) towards the ground in a series of spurts. Objects on the ground generally have a positive charge under a typical thunderstorm. (The charge that builds up in a small area of the Earth’s surface and the objects on it is determined by the net charge above it since the Earth’s surface is relatively conductive and can move charge in response to the thunderstorm.) Since opposites attract, an upward streamer is sent out from the object about to be struck. When these two paths meet, a return stroke zips back up to the sky. It is the return stroke that produces the visible flash, but it all happens so fast - in a few thousandths of a second - so the human eye doesn't see the actual formation of the stroke. Natural lightning can also trigger upward discharges from tall towers, like broadcast antennas. For more information on cloud-to-ground (and other types of lightning) visit the Severe Weather 101: Lightning Types page.
Canon Image Challenge22-Aug-2020 12:05
This really is fabulous...but you mention, your best Sky to Ground capture...do you have any from ground to sky?!? Are they more difficult, less frequent? (I know how you love to explain things...lol...tell us)

Best Wishes, Traveller
Canon Image Challenge22-Aug-2020 02:03
LOL. Thanks.
I only wished that we got some rain of this passing storm.
I was on the northern edge of this one as it moved to the NW.
This was the best cloud to ground that I captured.

Jim
Canon Image Challenge22-Aug-2020 01:53
I'm guessing the thunderclap was as impressive as the (very well captured) lightning bolt.

Dave
Canon Image Challenge21-Aug-2020 23:30
Your right this is a great one! Don’t move that dial, I’m voting for this. Tell me again what’s the max vote I can give? 12 or 13 points! PA