夜空を走る巨大な稲妻、閃光を放ちながら伸びていく様子が大迫力【動画】

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さまざまな方向へ伸びていく巨大な稲妻をとらえた、驚くような動画が公開されている。

異様な模様を夜空に描く

この動画が撮影されたのは8月16日の午前2時頃（現地時間）、場所はドイツの街、Marburgとされている。

動画には大きな雷が、地面に向かって落ちていく様子が映っている。

しかし次第に稲妻はさまざまな方向へ広がり、または複雑に枝分かれして、異様な模様を夜空に描いていった。

SNSにもさまざまな雷の動画

この動画を撮影したのは、写真家のJonas Piontekさん。彼は自身のサイトやSNSに、これまでもさまざまな雷の動画や写真を投稿してきた。

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The Special One. I‘m in disbelief of how so many things can come perfectly together in just one photo. The viewpoint was about perfect, the lightning strike in the exact right spot, full of epic branches and behind a beautiful dark and somewhat scary looking remnant of what used to be a volcano millions of years ago. And as if all these things together weren‘t breathtaking enough, a massive owl decided to go for a midnight flight, just to be perfectly frozen in time during the hundredth of a second it took this bolt to strike. I‘ve shot two similar shots with birds in front of epic lightning before – both in Venezuela – but the entire composition of this picture just blows me away. I think this one might be all the way up there, somewhere with the hand full of pictures I took that I would personally call outstanding, not just from a photographic point of view but also from keeping in mind how rare those opportunities present themselves. 2020 has redeemed itself! #storm #lightning #owl #earthpix #earthfocus #amöneburg #volcano #epic #eule #gewitter #blitz

A post shared by Jonas Piontek (@jonaspiontek) on Aug 18, 2020 at 8:33am PDT

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Massive Crawlers erupt above our heads, a mere second before thunder shakes our bodies to the core. @strohhutchaser asked me if it wasn‘t about time to leave but I couldn‘t bare to miss any second of it, even though standing on a hill with lightning racing over your head isn‘t the best idea normally. Sometimes I find myself literally thunderstruck, to stoked to go, even if it becomes more unsafe by the minute. I guess it‘s just this deep fascination that drives me. But who knows.. #lightning #crawler #nikon #storm #blitz #gewitter #hessen #earthfocus #stormchasing #stormchaser

A post shared by Jonas Piontek (@jonaspiontek) on Aug 19, 2020 at 5:05pm PDT

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Lightning has become the focus again for the last couple of setups here in Germany as the low dynamic, high energy environment isn‘t really good for structures anyway. We have spent quite some time out at night recently, sadly with little success so far. There has been a nice moment or two, but for the amount of effort and time we have spent, 2020 seems to have its own ways of repaying you. I‘m glad I got a couple shots like this one at least, just some nice random lightning out in the field. #storm #lightning #2020 #nikon #nightphotography #gewitter #blitz #longexposure #thestormseasonthatneverexisted

A post shared by Jonas Piontek (@jonaspiontek) on Aug 13, 2020 at 7:02am PDT

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#MyWeatherExperience by @the.awaken: It was the month of May 2019, when the storms started to show up, I'm always the person who loves staring at sky from sunset to stars. I have been noticing the change in weather which repeats every evening so around 6.30pm the sky was clear with strong winds. My home is on low ground where the storm passes, so i decided to walk few meters away from home to setup my camera on higher ground, where i felt the calm before storm with rushing cold winds around my ears. The lightning started to flash and become faster with sound of thunde and the storm moved slowly towards me, constantly thundering, an untouched force of nature. I could even feel small droplets touching me. It was one of my favorite nights. It felt beautiful and scary at same time. I always believe nature is beautiful when it is raw and dangerous. #storm #lightning #wx #stormchaser #india #ਤੂਫਾਨ

A post shared by Jonas Piontek (@jonaspiontek) on Mar 27, 2020 at 2:50am PDT

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#myweatherexperience by @angelo_concilio_ph : Photographing lightning is one of my favorite passions especially in the season of the times these photos were taken on 3 October 2019 in the Gulf of Salerno in southern Italy. The weather cards were not propitious for the good times but I tried my luck. At some point very strong wind was picking up and hail started. After a quarter of an hour the first lightning came up and we positioned on the beach to wait for the right time to shoot a few photos of it. Ultimately it was even featured on a famous program on Italian TV! #storm #lightning #italy #beach #thunder #stormchaser

A post shared by Jonas Piontek (@jonaspiontek) on Mar 25, 2020 at 3:21am PDT

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Shooting Lightning in slow motion truly reveals how it moves erratically and connects with different areas of cumulated charge, before flashing away once the step leader connects with something. In this night we had a extraordinary crawler show in front of us as we followed a squall line that had crossed moments before. Damn I‘m hungry for some storms, its almost unbelievable! #crawlerslowmotion #lightning #storm #shotoniphone #tornadoalley #gewitter #zeitlupe #earth

A post shared by Jonas Piontek (@jonaspiontek) on May 3, 2020 at 11:56am PDT