Light Show

Storms passed to the south of us tonight and gave us a pretty good light show with all the lighning flying around. Never got a drop of rain in town, light breeze blowing, good setup for shooting the lightning. Unfortunately, there wasn't much cloud-to-ground lightning, mostly cloud-to-cloud.

(This one was taken from in front of the house, clearly showing cloud-to-cloud strikes. Cloud-to-ground is much more photogenic, IMO, as far as lightning itself goes.)

Cloud-to-Cloud strikes can be very dramatic. In the next two, you can see the lightning flowing out of the clouds to the right. This scene would have been better with some ground strikes. Maybe next time.

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