Lightning strike.....

[chicot60]

http://i.imgur.com/DJo5YF8.jpg

[The Cobra]

This is supposedly real..............


http://static.fjcdn.com/pictures/Lightning+strike+yes+this+is+real+long+exposure+pi cture+of_ca048e_4983178.jpg

[Nostradamus]

it could be real, i had it hit a tree in my yard one time and it definitely goes down the roots and rips the sod up

[chicot60]

Long Exposure Photo of a Tree Struck by Lightning


http://2014hoaxblog.s3.amazonaws.com/2014lighttree01.jpg

The internet seems to believe this is a "long exposure photo of a lightning bolt hitting a tree."

It's not.


Well, it is a long exposure shot, but not of lightning. It's a photo created by "light painter" Darren Pearson (aka Darius Twin). Wikipedia defines light painting as "a photographic technique in which exposures are made by moving a hand-held light source or by moving the camera."

Pearson light painted the blue flames at the base of the tree. He then cut-and-pasted the lightning bolt itself into the photo from a NOAA image of a lightning strike (below).


http://2014hoaxblog.s3.amazonaws.com/2014light_tree02.jpg


Pearson posted the image on his Facebook page on Oct. 17, 2013, with the caption "The old Benjamin Franklin trick "

So in its original context this was clearly presented as an art photo. It was only when the Internet recaptioned it, that it became a fake (or misleading) photo.

And for the sake of comparison, here's an actual photo of lightning striking a tree.


http://2014hoaxblog.s3.amazonaws.com/2014lighttree03.jpg

[The Cobra]

Thanx chico....probably a ton of it going around the net that we never realize..