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Amazing Photos of The Bay’s Epic Lightning Storm

Spectacular and spooky, here are the best shots we found of this weekend’s lightning
By - posted 8/17/2020 No Comment

Were you woken up Sunday by the lightning and thunder after that scorching heatwave? Thankfully, a few amazing photographers did and caught some epic shots.

One of our favorites was from Stu Berman who took this epic early-morning shot around 5:30am of the crazy lightning storm with just his camera phone, standing on the concrete Aquatic Park pier looking back at SF over the water. Follow @stuinsf on Instagram or Reddit.

Spectacular and spooky!

 

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lightning crashes, the angel opens her eyes… #sflightning

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Quite possibly the best morning of my life! A single shot from an unforgettable moment…

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Mother Nature makes a special appearance in this mornings lightning storm ❤️ Do you see her? ohhh what a night…err morning… woke up at 3 AM because it was just too dang hot to sleep… got up to quickly check the webcams to see if the fog was coming in (per usual) haha and what i saw blew my mind.. it was a still image of a lightning bolt over San Francisco 😮 so in a matter of two minutes I have my clothes on…my camera gear packed.. and was out the door racing to find a spot.. was a good two hours of chasing lightning bolts all around the East Bay until I finally decided this was a shot I was going to make happen. I just wanted to wait till blue hour..so just after 6am I finally hit it with this one exposure, no compositing here. I admit at the time I thought this burst of lightning was going to hit me!! it was crazy. anyway I wanted to come home and go to sleep and still do but honestly I am too jacked up from all the lightning bolts I witnessed this morning 😅 enjoy and thanks for taking a look 😉

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Good morning from The Town ⚡️🌤

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Watch the video from ABC7 showing lightning across the San Francisco Bay Area.