It was only a matter of time with GPS in cameras and people from all over the world posting photos on the internet before someone decided to come up with something way cool like this.  Check out Sights Map, which shows off heat signatures of the places most photographed around the globe.  Should be interesting to see if we can look and find new areas to photograph on this awesome planet of ours.

The Worlds Most Photographed Places

http://www.gillesvidal.com/blogpano/paris.htm

I should have just went back to bed and forgot about looking outside.  I didn’t capture a single meteor streak in the sky.  I did manage to capture some star trails, but also failed at composing the shot and eliminating the power lines and part of my roof line.  #FirstWorldProblems.    The black and white processing was simply to make the star trails stand out a little better against the light blue morning sky.

A positive cloud-to-ground lightning flash triggers upward positive lightning leaders to form from three television towers in Rapid City, South Dakota. Filmed at 9,000 images per second, the video shows positive leaders descending from the thunderstorm with one connecting to ground. The resulting return stroke creates a fast electric field change which causes three tall television towers to initiate upward positive lightning leaders. Fast, short duration, bidirectional/bipolar recoil leaders form on positive leader branches that become cutoff from their main channel.