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Livin and Lovin Life in Boulder County Colorado

Lightning Thunderstorm Comparing Data

Lightning bolt striking next to a communication tower near The National Renewable Energy Laboratory’s (NREL’s) National Wind Technology Center (NWTC), located at the base of the foothills just south of Boulder, Colorado, is the nation’s premier wind energy technology research facility. […]

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Blue Noise

Lightning striking on each side of a communications tower. This is a communication and cell tower in south Boulder County Colorado up on the windmill ridge. The image is two stacked making for a 40 sec exposure. […]

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Lightning Strikes Following the Rain

Giant lightning bolt striking next to a wall of rain south of Boulder Colorado towards Golden, heading east to Denver. This is a view Central East Boulder County looking to the southwest towards the foothills of the Rocky Mountains. Very active lightning strikes, we were out of the wind and rain north of the storm a great viewing point. […]

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Like a Sci-Fi Movie

This image is like it came out of a Sci-Fi movie. Colorado weather with many layers of clouds in the sky and a lightning strike starting in the upper cloud going through and coming out of a lower cloud bank hitting the ground. July 15th, 11:35 pm, Boulder County, Colorado. ISO 500 – f5.6 – 4 sec – 122mm […]

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Lightning Strike Just Outside of Lyons Colorado

This Colorado lightning thunderstorm came in from the northwest over Rocky Mountain National Park and the town of Lyons heading southeast out to Longmont and down to Denver. We were positioned just out of the hard rain and watched it pass us by and stayed dry, my favorite place to be… […]

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Lightning Thunderstorm the BIG and the Small

Very large close lightning bolts striking in the sky with a lightning bolt that appears to be smaller but mighty in the distance of the agriculture farming fields of east Boulder County Colorado. July 15th, 2014 10:53 pm – ISO 500 – f5.6 – 30 sec – 16mm – Canon 6D Full Frame. […]

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Nature – Power and Oil

Lightning striking on the horizon of the eastern Colorado plains with a view of power lines and pumpjack of an oil well. July 7th, 2014, 9:53 pm – Settings – ISO 400 – f 5.6 – 15 sec – 260mm – Canon 7D. […]

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Thunderstorm Combustion

Cloud to cloud lightning thunderstorm combustion striking in the sky over a country lake north east of Longmont Colorado and Boulder County. This is in SW Weld County. Settings ISO 500 – f11 – 30 sec -11 mm. This is 6 images stacked equal to a three minute exposure, makes for very low noise. June 24th, 2014 10:46pm […]

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Lightning Striking Longs Peak Foothills BW

Lightning bolts, cloud to ground striking the front range foothills of the Colorado Rocky Mountains in Boulder County. A view of the Twin Peaks, Mount Meeker 13,911′ and Longs Peak 14,256′ in the distance. Black and white version by storm chase Bo Insogna aka The Lightning Man […]

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Oil Well Pumpjack Thunderstorm Panorama

Eastern plains of the Rocky Mountain front range in Weld County, Colorado, view of a pumpjack near the town of Dacona with a massive lightning thunderstorm striking. […]

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