{"id":1262,"date":"2017-10-10T22:20:18","date_gmt":"2017-10-10T14:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/?p=1262"},"modified":"2024-03-24T20:10:25","modified_gmt":"2024-03-24T12:10:25","slug":"wrath-of-the-gods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/2017\/10\/wrath-of-the-gods","title":{"rendered":"Wrath of the Gods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the\u00a0National Environmental Agency (NEA), Singapore has the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nea.gov.sg\/training-knowledge\/weather-climate\/lightning-thunderstorms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">world&#8217;s highest occurrence of\u00a0lightning activity in the world<\/a>. As we approach\u00a0the monsoon season, we experience more thunderstorms throughout the day and night. Yesterday is one such night where there&#8217;s large storm, accompanied with a intense lightshow of lightning bolts.<\/p>\n<p>After the rain has subsided enough to let me open my windows without it splashing into my room, I setup my tripod with the Fujifilm X-T2 to take 15s exposures continuously. I have done this twice in the previous years, and looking back, I found that it has also captured the changes to the landscape that&#8217;s in front of my window.<\/p>\n<p>In 2013, when I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/2013\/04\/lightning\">first caught lightning<\/a> on my camera, Tampines Stadium still stands. When I caught it again in 2016, it has been demolished and the construction of the new Tampines Hub is in progress. And yesterday, Our Tampines Hub now stand tall in front of my block.<\/p>\n<p>Three different thunderstorms, three different years, three different views.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1264\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1264\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1264\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/DSCF5359-Edit-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/DSCF5359-Edit-1024x683.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/DSCF5359-Edit-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/DSCF5359-Edit-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1264\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lightning storm over the construction site of Our Tampines Hub on 23 May 2016. (3-shot composite)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1265\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1265\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1265\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/DSC_7102-1024x685.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"428\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/DSC_7102-1024x685.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/DSC_7102-300x201.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/DSC_7102-768x514.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1265\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lightning storm over Tampines Stadium on 13 Apr 2013.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the\u00a0National Environmental Agency (NEA), Singapore has the\u00a0world&#8217;s highest occurrence of\u00a0lightning activity in the world. As we approach\u00a0the monsoon season, we experience more thunderstorms throughout the day and night. Yesterday is one such night where there&#8217;s large storm, accompanied with a intense lightshow of lightning bolts. After the rain has subsided enough to let&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/2017\/10\/wrath-of-the-gods\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wrath of the Gods<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1507,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[320,21,635,323],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1262"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1509,"href":"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262\/revisions\/1509"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}