Day 4245: Lightning and Basquiat.

 

 

"Ally": digital collage. (Kanji by Demura Sensei)

 

 

  

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2GN2S ... Lightning strike

 

Photographer Dan Martland is well-known for his exquisite photography of New York City but he outdid himself yesterday afternoon during a violent thunderstorm that saw a bolt of lightning strike the Statue of Liberty.

Martland was on hand to capture the mega photo of an enormous lightning bolt directly hitting Lady Liberty’s torch. “This afternoon’s passing storm didn’t disappoint,” Martland writes on X (formerly Twitter). “The Statue of Liberty getting zapped by a bolt of lightning.”

The photographer was out in the elements noting that it was “quite a moist and windy one” as the thunderstorm battered New York at around 18:00 local time. Martland put his amazing capture down to “pure luck”.

Martland had two cameras trained on the iconic statue which both captured the lightning strike. He used a “lightning trigger”, not video, to capture the images meaning his photos are proper still images.

“I usually track the weather with apps and head out if it’s looking good,” Martland explains on Instagram. “I’ve had a time where I’ve been out for eight hours and not nothing. Today, was only an hour. The storm passed pretty quick. And the apps showed that there were no more cells coming my way.”

 

 

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