Boom
Sunday August 8th, 2010, 23:03
A tropic thunder over Tampere. Or actually a bit to the west. Unfortunately I was at work when the storm was at its strongest. This one was the best I captured near my apartment at the Näsijärvi lake shore. The buildings are the ones at Naistenlahti, and you can see the power plant as well. It’s been crazy in Finland lately. The weather is like in India or Mexico: hot (more than +30 celsius), very humid and strong thunderstorms hitting almost every day. Today some 40 people were injured in Pori when the storm hit a rock festival. Yesterday I was photographing a house that was set on fire by a lightning. That image is in the previous post.
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Technical stuff: This one was taken with a tripod. At the lakeshore it was dark, no ambient light except a faint glow coming from the nearby road. The lens I had here was a 17-40mm wide angle zoom, the camera was set to f5, ISO 200 and exposure time of 30 seconds. I’m not experienced in photographing lightnings, so if you have a better idea, PLEASE share it with me by commenting!! :-) I bet there’s another storm coming already!
Good stuff. You didn’t get wet?
Njet. It was all warm, dry and fuzzy. The storm didn’t actually hit the city. In the image it’s far away to the west.
ahoy, I´m a musician in Tampere. I was wondering if I could use this image for a gig poster, I can credit it to you.
Frankie, e-mail straight to Tatu tatu.blomqvist@gmail.com