photorama

This is my favorite shot of the night. I like the ground to air bolt behind the fence the most, which makes me realize that my favorite subject to shoot is lightning. As usual, I’ve posted the image and now I have nothing else to add. I guess that’s life.

So yeah, it was 110 degrees, with the heat index. It was pretty unbearable and I don’t mind the heat.. but there was talk of a thunderstorm that would break the heat wave and sure enough around 8 or 9 pm lightning started to flash in the distance. I grabbed my camera, tripod, and cable release and ran up to the roof. It was pretty windy but I managed to get about 6 frames fired off before I was drenched by the rain. This wasn’t a normal rain, but rather a rain that was absent one second and drenching everything it touched, including me. The camera was fine, I had it wrapped in a plastic bag with a hole for the lens to peek through. I was leaving for sunny California the next morning so I used as much of the roll as I could before rewinding and setting it aside for my (projected) large trip to the lab two Mondays from then.