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I had just returned from photographing the sunset at
Independence Pass when I noticed an extreme lightning and thunderstorm happening in Chaffee County.
I was in the area of Twin Lakes when I
first noticed lightning consistenly
popping up in the sky every two to three seconds. I reached Buena Vista
(where I live) and found a dark spot outside of town and began photographing the lightning show! |
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Now my digital camera is "average"
- It's a Canon A85 with 4.0 megapixels, and while I don't have any kind of long exposure
feature to capture things like lightning, I found some success with the rapid photo feature.
Again, the lightning was so constant (every two to three seconds) that I was able to capture
some really good ones like the adjacent photo. |
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Oooooooh! I like this one! :) |
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And just look at these purple shades! This reminded me
a lot of the Buena Vista Fireworks Show from this summer! ;) |
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Now there was lightning happening
practically all around, with some occasional lightning illuminating
Mt. Princeton. I really wanted a
stunning shot of a bright purple lightning strike illuminating Mt. Princeton, but it
just was not meant to be. The adjacent shot was my best shot, in which I captured
the latter end of a lightning strike behind Mt. Princeton. |
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A lightning strike near Sheep Mountain in the Cottonwood Pass canyon area. |
