The skies tonight were so exciting! I went up on the roof to get a better view of the lightning that was striking to the north, east and south of Adams Morgan. Usually when we have lightning it is too wet to photograph but tonight the rain stayed away long enough for me to make these pictures. All of these images were made with the camera on a tripod and the exposures took 30 seconds each.

lightning with washington monument

lightning again

lightning over NE DC
Lightning strikes in the east.

single slammer

single slammer with another
Massive strikes like these lit up the apartment and sparked Amanda to pull me away from my house chores (installing doors on book shelves) so I could appreciate the sky.

7 Responses to “Electric Skies over DC”


  1. 1 What Liz Said

    That looks beautiful!

  2. 2 anOCgirl

    lightning scares the crap out of me, but those are some really cool pictures! wow!

  3. 3 Bethany

    Wow! What great captures! incredible.

  4. 4 Moshe Zusman

    great captures!

  5. 5 Talking Budgie

    WOW! They are beautiful!

  6. 6 Fiona

    Wow, those are AMAZING!! We don’t get storms like that here, how beautiful!

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