Lightning Clouds

Documentary looking into the cause, effect and current understanding of one of nature's greatest enigmas - lightning, which is almost as old as the planet itself and will probably outlast life on Earth.

AKVIS NatureArt - program (and a plug-in), which contains a collection of unique effects that can simulate various natural phenomena. You can add a photo rain, snow, lightning, sun, clouds, rainbows, ice, body of water, fire, or "draw" a picture of yourself, for example, to represent a seascape or a picture of night sky.

Beginner to an advance level in Revit for the design of the lightning protection system according to IEC 62305.

Photo collection of natural phenomena of light and fire, such as lightning, rainbows, afterlight and afterglow, eruptions and lava, and sunlight radiating between clouds.

It's hard to compete with nature in diversity and man has still much to learn from it. We are not able to create the Earth in seven days, but we can imitate some of its natural phenomena in digital art. AKVIS NatureArt is an excellent tool for imitating the magnificence of natural phenomena on your photos. The software lets you apply weather effects to your picture or create nature scenes from scratch, converting a blank background into a sea view or a night sky with scattered, glistening stars.

It's hard to compete with nature in diversity and man has still much to learn from it. We are not able to create the Earth in seven days, but we can imitate some of its natural phenomena in digital art. AKVIS NatureArt is an excellent tool for imitating the magnificence of natural phenomena on your photos.

Down comes a deluge of sonorous hail, Or prone-descending rain. Wide-rent, the clouds Pour a whole flood, and yet, its flame unquenched, Th’unconquerable lightning struggles through. Ragged and fierce, or in red whirling balls, And fires the mountains with redoubled rage. Black from the stroke, above, the smould’ring pine Stands a sad shattered trunk; and, stretched below, A lifeless group the blasted cattle lie. James Thompson, “The Seasons” (1727) have been investigating ball lightning for more than two decades. I published a ball lightning report in Nature in 1976 that received worldwide publicity and I consequently many people wrote to me with accounts of their own experiences. Within a very short time, I had accumulated about 200 firsthand accounts, and the file has continued to grow steadily since then. Several things impressed me. Few of those who wrote to me had any detailed foreknowledge of ball lightning at the time of their observation. Nonetheless, once reports of other phenomena such as St. Elmo’s fire had been eliminated, the remaining descriptions were remarkably consistent. Furthermore, nearly all who contacted me were keen to have an explanation of what they had seen and seemed entirely sincere.

Lightning Dreamers is new work by composer, trumpeter, interdisciplinary abstractivist and modern music mogul Rob Mazurek, who wrote the music for a compacted version of his long-running Exploding Star Orchestra.