This is about the best lightning shot I’ve done. I had to do a bit a post-processing to get the final result.
We were camped at a commercial campground about 20 or so miles from Mt. Rushmore.
Black Hills Lightning.
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awesome – I am so impressed.
I have been thinking about you will all the weather problems in your area. Wondering how friends in Joplin and Nevada MO are holding up?
Had to come by and see how you are doing.
Thanks
While it’s been a bit worrying at times here, it looks like the tornado season for this area may be over, at least for a while. Fortunately, we’ve escaped any damage, though we have spent some time in the storm shelter this season.
One tornado, an F3, did track across the forest 20 or so miles north of us.
The last of the storm outbreaks destroyed most of Denning, Arkansas. An operator from out at the plant had lived in one of those houses, but had recently moved. He had sold the house and the deal had closed, get this, about 14 hours before the tornado hit around midnight! If he had not put the house up for sale, he would have been at work and his wife and baby would have been in the house.
Most of Karen’s family live up in NW Arkansas, about as close to Joplin as you can get and still be in Arkansas. They’re all fine.
Now that tornado season seems to be winding down, I think hurricane season starts in June.
This is an amazing photo, Mike. The colours are stunning! And of course, the lightning is brilliant. I’m glad to hear that you didn’t sustain any damage from all that crazy weather you had – 20 miles is almost too close for comfort.
Thanks! I wish I could do more photography like this. Catching lightning with a camera is purely hit and miss, most of the time – and severe weather photography can be expensive and dangerous.
We had little effect here at all other than rain and wind. We actually had less damage in our trees than in the last couple of years. We didn’t lose any of them and the only branches lost were small ones.
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