The sky presented a pyrotechnic display of light and colour in the sunset sky.
What a show tonight, July 18, as a thunderstorm lit the sky with bolts of lightning. As the storm retreated, the Sun broke through, ideal lighting for a rainbow. In this case I was able to capture the rainbow pierced by bolts of lightning. See below for tech details.
A little later, the sunlight got stronger and the rainbow grew to span the sky, in a beautiful display of a double rainbow lit by the red light of the setting Sun.
As the beams of sunlight lit the clouds, it looked like the rainbow was on fire.
It has been a stormy start to summer in Alberta, but at times the sky has put on a stunning show. That was certainly the case tonight.
Technical on the Lightning and Rainbow shot at top:
This is a stack of 35 consecutive video frames taken with HD (1920 x 1080) resolution at 30 frames per second with the Canon 6D, and extracted as an image sequence with Photoshop, then processed in Adobe Camera Raw, then stacked with Russell Brown’s Stack-A-Matic into a smart object with maximum stack mode, to accumulate the frames taken over about 1 second into one still frame.
So I could have got this with a single 1-second exposure with the lens stopped way down and a ND filter, but my timing would have had to have been very, very lucky!
— Alan, July 18, 2016 / © 2016 Alan Dyer / www.amazingsky.com
The Amazing Sky 
You’ve captured this summer perfectly!
Fantastic opening image Alan, …top draw! Love the combination of lightning, moody sky and partial rainbow – an Amazing Sky indeed! 😀
Your pictures and videos are the best things I have ever seen online Home on the Range of Alberta is stunning vocally and photographically. You are a genius. I met you in Churchill in March and was part of the group that stayed the extra night and saw a stunning aurora. Mind botgling. Can I get a higher resolution from you for an aurora picture to blow up for framing? Anyway I wait for your stunning posts on line showing the wonders of the sky…he sky that belongsto all of us and too often goes unappreciated.
Hi Mary. Nice to hear from you. If you go to my Photoshelter site at http://www.amazingsky.photoshelter.com all my images are there, with the 2016 Churchill pix in a gallery at http://amazingsky.photoshelter.com/index/C0000Igzeh9X1c_o/G0000dst5VkrUy68 Photos for personal use can be purchased and downloaded from there, in various resolution for screen use or printing. Thanks!
Lovely images!
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