That shot is one crazy great pic! Can I get a full res copy?
I carry and use an TF R5 A3 every day
UF2100 when I wear jeans
Have an Ebay single mode Q5 cheapie in my work toolbox and use every day
X9 by the back paito door to check out the property at night (4 acres)
KE5 next to the dog leash for when the dog is walked at night
Wife has taken over my UF-H3. she loves it for evening yard work
Sipik 68k in wife’s purse (alkaline cell)
DQG AAA on her keys
C8 in the car
sipik 68K in most used home toolbox
led minimag 3AA in pickup truck
plus the shelf queens
and of course a HD2010 and a DRY just to screw with the neighbors and impress people.
Go on a trail from 5 a.m. to 6 a.m. or a little after, so I get one hour of use each day! Mostly with AAA and AA lights. But on occasion use a big one to scare the coyotes 0:)
both. I think it’s a natural gas refinery or something close to that. There are flames and steams coming out of the pipes all the time.
sure. send me a pm with your email address, I will look for a full sized pic.
I use mine most of the time at home. I have several in both my vehicles that I use when needed. One thing I like doing is when I go grocery shopping at night (I'm the sole caregiver for my father who has Parkinson's so I do a lot of things at night while he's sleeping), I park in the darkest and farthest corner of the parking, pull out one of my xml's (lately E1320's are my faves) and take my time going to the store. 
I even go out of my way to walk towards or close to other people in the parking lot just so they will see how bright my flashlight is. Most of the time I get compliments and questions and I absolutely love it! I guess you can say that I love showing off my flashlights. 
...pick up dog poo
I live on a rural property with horses and I don’t usually get home until after dark so a flashlight is a big part of my life!! Every night my light gets used for everything from putting on horses rugs and filling water troughs, to checking on scared horses in their paddocks during a heavy storm. My light definately gets worked hard and it has made me realise I wouldnt want to go a night without having a bright, tough flashlight near me at all times!!
I use mine mostly at work as a security officer…I took my Dry to a fight where there was a gathering of about 150 people…as we approach the lights turned off (there’s bad ballasts in this area and they never get fixed) my co-worker turns to me and says “light em up”…i’ve never seen so many people recoil in horror…it was like cockroaches when the lights come on…it was amazing…lol…
Way cool! Don’t you just live for those little moments?
oh yeah…I still giggle about it from time to time…I had never used the Dry in residence because i’m mostly in the main building…I didn’t even care about peoples eyes either…I just blasted everyone in the face…better for me to see and them not see…the Dry basically did 90% of the job that night getting people cleared out of the area…even the Residence assistance remarked on it…“I just felt warm on my face” was the exact quote…lol
Everyone shot targets at home and mailed them to the officiating body, which then scored the targets and determined the winner( s ). Nowadays, people will sometimes post a picture on a website and use that instead of mail.
Are there prizes?
Danger?
Mysteries?
I mostly use them to scare away the possums who frequent my area, trying to empty my fruit trees of their harvest. I find it amazing how they can still see after five minutes looking into my (estimated) 1000 lumen light.
When friends visit, I show them my collection, and they often ask the same question. Some of them will then say “oh - is it really bright ?” and proceed to see how bright it is by turning on the flashlight - while looking straight into the head …… :bigsmile: (before I can warn them)
Yes to 1 and 3 . . maybe even 2 for some people.
tgx78, were you standing on the Ironworkers Memorial for that photo?
Which light did you use?
I use them to stun bugs, spiders,flies etc....That way they can't see you winding up with the news paper..My kill ratio has gone way up.
I've even caught a few Ninjas
YES! I love stunning bugs with mine. Sometimes with my flat-bezeled XML lights I like to put it face down on the bugs and turn it all the way to maximum. 15 seconds later and the bug will either be burned to a crisp, or they won’t be able to see my tissue coming to squish it’s dead body.
I don't have to warn any of my friends/family anymore; they've all learned better. I gave my brother a C8 for Christmas; he opened it, was looking it over, and as I was in the process of saying "Don't look directly into the light!", he proceeds to look directly into the light and turn the light on. In order to maximize the effect, I had freshly-charged the cells before gift-wrapping the package, and had left the mode-memory on high. 
No one I know looks directly into any of my lights anymore. 
some of us are on the same page. hehe.