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A beautiful sunset coincided with severe storms to the north of my location, the Lone Cabbage Fish Camp in west Cocoa, Florida. |
The storm cluster became more vigorous as it slowly edged closer, as seen over the St. John's River. |
Pretty storms also were forming farther west. |
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Storms to the northwest over the St. John's River. |
A gazing ball, a feature of the Lone Cabbage dock, is juxtaposed with the storm. |
Here's a look at the northern storm's anvil. |
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The sunset and storms provided a classic Florida scene as this airboat tried to get going at the Lone Cabbage Fish Camp. |
Though the storm had an outflow feature - a budding shelf cloud - it was vigorous on radar and had a severe warning. |
Lightning sparked as darkness fell by the boat ramp on S.R. 520. |
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More bolts spring from the approaching storm. |
To me, the fat, bright bolt suggests the drifting of the return strokes ... or maybe it's just the photography. |
I loved how the lightning illuminated the structure of the cloud. |
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More lightning, getting closer. |
Lightning reflected in the St. John's River. |
I love the reflection of the lightning in the water. I think this is my favorite photo from this stage of the evening. This is full-frame, not cropped. |
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The lightning is so bright, it's overexposed the frame, but it's still interesting. |
Branchy and beautiful. |
Intense strokes as the storm approaches ... |
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This bolt was not quite in frame, but I included it here to show its intensity and proximity. For an instance, it created daylight! |
A crawler to the west. |
The rain came and I took a break. As it lightened, I attempted to capture the developing crawlers. This picture needed a little help as I tried to eliminate the raindrops that were on the lens. |
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This one's kind of mysterious. |
Moving on to Rockledge, Florida - the south-moving storm produced crawlers and more. I left the raindrops on this image. |
Despite the raindrops, this is still pretty nifty. |
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A tree of lightning, almost. |
More crawlers. |
Now that's what I'm talkin' about! |
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More flash and bang. |
Lightning and power lines. |
I moved a bit south, but still in Rockledge. |
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Check out the purples. The light streaks on the bottom are from passing traffic. |
More great color and light - crawler above, traffic below. |
Lots of in-cloud flashes illuminated the sky, along with the occasional crawler. |
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A branch here, a branch there... |
Another nice crawler! |
The light show started to slow down as 11 p.m. EST neared, but still, there were some "wow" crawlers. |
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These just seemed to rip across the sky. |
That's Harvey's Groves in the foreground. |
At this point, there were several minutes between crawlers, so this was my last shot of the night. And what a night! |