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Insane Lightning Bolt – The night of storms in Sydney 1st December 2019

· by Jimmy Deguara

Sydney, NSW bushfiresdroughtGeneral WeatherLightning

The night of storms in Sydney first day of two storm days – I was taking pictures of very dull intermittent lightning and then bang – this overexposed everything – this was half the bolt by the way! This was the best I could do to salvage this lightning!

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