Lightning over Charlottetown - Photo by Stephen DesRoches

Lightning over Charlottetown

A wild night in Prince Edward Island started at 3 in the afternoon and the lightning was still striking the city past 10pm. There was a constant sound of fire sirens including a house that got hit not too far from us with noticeable damage.

With over 100 attempts, this photo was one of two with visible lightning and was actually named _MG_0911.CR2 daily photo for August 6, 2007

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wow that is amazing! I am assuming you took this yourself, but man how did you manage to get such a perfect shot?
comment from Katelyn Mountain on August 7, 2007 5:04PM
Nice image, lightning is certainly hard to capture and always takes more attempts that usable shots. Nice image filename. But its not 911 north of the border though is it?
comment from ROB on August 7, 2007 9:52PM
At least here in the maritimes, we use 911 for emergency calls too.
comment from Stephen DesRoches on August 8, 2007 9:04AM
Brillant and timeless!
comment from Siegfried Becker on August 8, 2007 11:32AM
Really nice shot. You are really good at taking these pics.
comment from Sylvia Bourgeois on August 8, 2007 4:08PM
beautiful sky you catch !
comment from .:CushmoK:. on August 11, 2007 3:01PM
excellent shot here. Like the treatment here!!!
comment from ChaCha on August 12, 2007 12:06AM
Great use of "Flash!"
comment from Myrtle Beach on August 12, 2007 6:08PM
wow! cool capture!!!
comment from crash on August 13, 2007 11:45PM
Great pic!
comment from Brendan on August 19, 2007 1:43PM
haha,nice timing and abit of luck i guess :D
comment from kheoh yee wei on August 24, 2007 10:06AM
Excellent capture - lighting worked out well with this!
comment from Craig Wilson on August 30, 2007 4:58AM
Hello Stephen

I'm looking for a elegant way to show my photos and so i found folderblog and your gallery. after seeing plenty ofwork with folderblog i want to ask you, if you give your template you use on this side away? anyway, i like your photos! which camera do you use (miss the exif)? unfortunatly i didnt found a way to contact you directly so i had to go this way.

regards from germany (near hamburg), Thorsten

p.s. maybe you can write me an email to inputs@gmail.com?
comment from thorsten on August 31, 2007 2:56AM
Contact and Camera information are found on the about page (top right) to keep the clutter down on the photo pages.

I don't feel EXIF is necessary to display to most visitors. It is still embedded in the image or you can hover over the small camera to the left of the photo title.
comment from Stephen on August 31, 2007 8:56AM
great capture!!
comment from KG on April 18, 2008 12:39AM

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