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CAPTION lightning striking the Statue of Liberty (photographer waited 40 years for shot)
BBC ^
| 10/13/10
Posted on 10/13/2010 9:25:43 PM PDT by Libloather
This is the moment a lightning bolt appears to strike the Statue of Liberty in New York. New York photographer Jay Fine had spent the night braving the storm in Battery Park City, Manhattan, in a bid to get the perfect picture. Jay spent nearly two hours poised with his camera and took more than 80 shots before striking lucky with this particular bolt of lightning at 8.45pm on 22 September. He said he had been waiting 40 years to get the picture.
To capture the shots Jay used a Nikon D300s with 60mm f/2.8 lens on the following settings: Aperture: F/10, Shutterspeed: 5 seconds, ISO: 200. Share this page
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: caption; liberty; lightning; statue; statueofliberty
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To: jessduntno
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posted on
10/13/2010 9:50:03 PM PDT
by
unkus
To: Libloather
I feel a photoshop job coming...
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posted on
10/13/2010 9:50:27 PM PDT
by
gunsequalfreedom
(Conservative is not a label of convenience.)
To: swatbuznik
I hope that represents the real America being re-energized by God, and get this country back on track! Gotta love an optimist!
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posted on
10/13/2010 9:51:35 PM PDT
by
gunsequalfreedom
(Conservative is not a label of convenience.)
To: plinyelder
That's what it looks like to me too.
First clue: there's no lightning, no discharge anywhere on the side of the metal structure facing the camera? Doesn't seem likely.
Second, if you look along the front of the statue you can see the bolt in the background disappearing behind a small knoll in the background across the water.
Third, if the bolt really was right above the island, touching her upraised torch hand, you would expect the top of the island to be brightly lit by the flashbulb effect, including some sharp shadows on the island in the foreground. Not there.
Ah, what do I know, I'm not really trained in photo interpretation. I'm much better with pictures of bikinis... ;-)
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posted on
10/13/2010 9:52:06 PM PDT
by
ThunderSleeps
(obama out now! I'll keep my money, my guns, and my freedom - you can keep the change.)
To: divine_moment_of_facts
I was wondering that also
25
posted on
10/13/2010 9:53:02 PM PDT
by
gunsequalfreedom
(Conservative is not a label of convenience.)
To: gunsequalfreedom
“Gotta love an optimist!”
Yep. I was gonna start an optimist’s club, but I couldn’t find a hall big enough for the meetings.
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posted on
10/13/2010 9:53:21 PM PDT
by
jessduntno
(9/24/10, FBI raids home of appropriately named AAAN leader Hatem Abudayyeh, a friend of Obama.)
To: plinyelder
“Maybe it’s just these old eyes of mine but it looks like the lightning struck .. somewhere in the background!?”
I agree.
I would expect to see the lightning hitting the torch.
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posted on
10/13/2010 9:53:46 PM PDT
by
AlexW
To: jessduntno
28
posted on
10/13/2010 9:56:26 PM PDT
by
Old Sarge
(Marking Time On The Government's Dime)
To: Libloather
Obama was in NYC that evening, incidentally. Look it up.
29
posted on
10/13/2010 9:57:52 PM PDT
by
Blogger
To: swatbuznik; Libloather
What if it represents God’s judgment?
To: Captainpaintball
Heh.. That was pretty funny!
BTW.. I’m a woman..I’m a photographer/artist.. I own my own home and it doesn’t have a basement ;)
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posted on
10/13/2010 10:07:05 PM PDT
by
divine_moment_of_facts
(Give me Liberty.. or I'll get up and get it for myself!)
To: John Leland 1789
It’s ominous looking to me, too.
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posted on
10/13/2010 10:08:03 PM PDT
by
divine_moment_of_facts
(Give me Liberty.. or I'll get up and get it for myself!)
To: swatbuznik
POWER Surge to REAL America!
33
posted on
10/13/2010 10:08:28 PM PDT
by
goodnesswins
(f you don't support Obama, and the deconstruction of America: YOU are a RACIST.)
To: Libloather
By the power of Greyskull...
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posted on
10/13/2010 10:13:55 PM PDT
by
Cu Roi
To: NohSpinZone
Clearly the strike was NOT on the Statue of Liberty, but somewhere behind or maybe a Photoshop.
Must have been on some nobama Grant, fact doesn’t matter as much as sysbolism.
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posted on
10/13/2010 10:16:16 PM PDT
by
dusttoyou
(Let the other side get all wee-wee'd up, Remember come November)
To: AlexW
Don’t know about protection from high energy bolts like the one shown but .. wouldn’t that size of a bolt do ‘some’ real damage IF it had hit directly .. as stated?
36
posted on
10/13/2010 10:21:37 PM PDT
by
plinyelder
("I've noticed that everybody that is for abortion has already been born." -- Ronald Reagan)
To: Libloather
This is the moment a lightning bolt appears to strike the Statue of Liberty in New York.I think that I may own the poster an apology.
I failed to notice the word appear the first time I read the article!
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posted on
10/13/2010 10:25:58 PM PDT
by
plinyelder
("I've noticed that everybody that is for abortion has already been born." -- Ronald Reagan)
To: Libloather
It hit something in the background, not the statue.
38
posted on
10/13/2010 10:50:09 PM PDT
by
rdl6989
(January 20, 2013- The end of an error.)
To: Libloather
Another 1.21 Jigawatts.
39
posted on
10/13/2010 10:56:56 PM PDT
by
PeaceBeWithYou
(De Oppresso Liber! (50 million and counting in Afghanistan and Iraq))
To: Libloather
40
posted on
10/13/2010 11:00:16 PM PDT
by
Slyfox
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