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Lightning in Johnson Canyon

This week we had a marvelous electrical storm to the west of our house. It was far enough away to make Junie Moon the Dog happy, but near enough for some nice photos. Since it was night, I used the same settings that I use for star photography. I put my Nikon D7000 on the tripod, with an 10-70mm lens. I set it for manual exposure, and set the shutter for a 30 second exposure, and turned on long exposure noise reduction. I hooked up my PClix, a marvelous device for taking photos at set intervals. Then I just let it click away.

With a 30 second exposure, sometimes you catch more than one bolt. These two were a couple of seconds apart, but got combined in the shot.

I like the way the lightning lights up the rain that is falling. This is another with two different bolts.