Lightning

	<=== This supercell on June 5, 2004 in northeast Barber County, Kansas (seen also in the "Supercells" section) produced many cloud-to-ground (CG) lightning strikes on the north side of the updraft. With the storm striations and lightning over a sea of waving wheat, this is one of my favorite photos.		<=== This complex cloud-to-ground (CG) bolt hit way out in front of a supercell near Lake Cheney, Kansas on July 3, 2005. That's a reminder of the danger of lightning -- you don't have to be up close to a storm to get hit by it if a cell is very electrified and throwing out bolts well in advance.
	<=== A 3-pronged CG lightning strike hits on the west side of Lawrence, Kansas during a nighttime thunderstorm on July 20, 2003.		<=== I took this photo in my backyard when I lived in Wichita, Kansas on the edge of a small lake. The date was August 1, 2003 with a thunderstorm after midnight.
	<=== A thunderstorm in Wichita on May 20, 2006, was very prolific at putting out CG lightning bolts. This shot and the next two again were taken in my backyard before I moved away from Wichita.		<=== A powerful barage of CG bolts on May 20, 2006 viewed from my lakeside backyard in Wichita, Kansas.
	<=== Yet another cloud-to-ground (CG) lightning bolt hits near my old Wichita home, May 20, 2006.		<=== Sometimes a simple cloud-to- ground (CG) lightning strike is very elegant, like this one over the Atlantic Ocean during a trip to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina in January 2006.
	<=== I really like the reddish colors and moody clouds with this lightning strike northwest of Colby, Kansas on June 2, 2005. The reddish tinge may have had to do with dust in the air from breezy thunderstorm winds.		<=== Here is another shot of the Lake Cheney storm shown earlier on July 3, 2005, throwing out a dangerous CG bolt in front.
	<=== Yet another lightning photo from my old backyard in Wichita, Kansas on August 23, 2003. These impressive CG bolts hit in a housing development just across the small lake at the back of my home.		<=== I was still learning my Canon camera, and had the wrong F-stop setting for this lightning strike over Lawrence, Kansas on July 20, 2003. The result was a "burned out"/over-exposed photo. Darkening it down in my image software reveals the complexity of this massive electical discharge from a nighttime storm, even if the image has exposure problems
	<=== Anvil crawlers are cloud-to-cloud lightning discharges that spread out high above in the anvil of a thunderstorm. They are most common at the rear of a storm, like this one in June 2004 near Attica, Kansas.		<=== This is another over-exposed or "burned out" lightning image on July 4, 2005 at my old home in Wichita. My camera settings were better adjusted on subsequent photos, but lightning and fireworks were never again quite in sync.