Flashes of Electricity

It rained like mad last night and there were lightning flashes every few seconds or so...so I grabbed my camera, stationed myself at the window, turned on the continuous-snapping feature, and shot away.

To be honest this has been manipulated - I found that I had a good picture of the lightning, but the city was underexposed to the point of being invisible - so I took a longer exposure of the scenery and put the lightning layer on top, set to 'Screen' mode in Photoshop. So I cheated a little - but I did take both pictures myself!

Hope you like it - there's a couple more here [link] . One is an almost-untouched picture (levels-corrected and cropped) and the other is a lightning animation, with pictures straight from the camera. The lightning picture from the animation was terribly overexposed, but it makes for good contrast!