Lightning Strikes Back

We were in Arizona for the weekend during monsoon season when I got this shot. For hours I stood in the rain under an umbrella as it poured trying to get a few good ones of the lightning storm. My wife thought I was crazy sitting out there but I didn’t care! The storm was [...]

Lightning at the Vineyard

My first lightning shots…I got lucky.  I put my Nikon D300 with 70-200 2.8 lens on the tripod, focused on infinity and held the shuuter down until a few strikes hit.  Then I got tired of pressing the shutter, so I just left it open, drank some wine and went over and pressed it again [...]