Stormy weather

As with each photography category - portraits, sports, dance, art - weather photography has its own challenges, and I have always been curious about the difficulty of photographing lightning.  Rising to the challenge this week, with increased thunderstorm activity in the great Southwest, I set out to capture lightning.  Not out in the open (although one summer at Girl Scout Camp I danced around a metal flag pole during a thunderstorm) but from the relative comfort of our portal.

What did I learn?   Focus should not only be on the lightning but on the landscape and clouds.  You can count and "gestimate" when strikes might occur.  And it takes a lot of patience.  I thought my nose was going to be permanently altered to one side after pressing my face against the viewfinder for lengthy periods of time.  Obviously, I need more practice but here are a few weather shots from a rousing storm this week.  Not a drop of rain fell on our land from this seemingly ominous storm.

until next Monday,

DB

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