Storm chasing June 21, 2008
Posted by tcbp in : General , add a commentLast night I tried to chase down some lightning but didn’t have much luck at all. When the storm first rolled in most of the lightning seemed to be between clouds and even that wasn’t terribly frequent. I would have tried to shoot that but it was so light out that it really didn’t look like much when the clouds flashed. I still went out and found a relatively scenic area to try and compose some shots. Unfortunately, the lighting was so infrequent (striking every one to three minutes) and spread out all around me that I never was able to pick a direction to aim the camera and compose and actually get another bolt to strike within frame. I decided to wait and see if it would get better somewhere else so that I could move to a new location if needed.
After sitting in my car listening to heavy rain pound my sunroof for 15 minutes and seeing only a handful of strikes in in various directions all around me, I gave up and went home.
Hopefully I’ll get a more cooperative storm soon and be able to follow this posting with some photos! Unfortunately, most thunderstorms in Rochester seem to be that way. Only rarely do we get one where you can set up somewhere and expect to see enough lighting to get multiple decent compositions with lightning in the frame. I don’t just want pictures of lighting, because I could have had that, I want good ones!
There are storms forcasted through Monday so I’m just going to have to keep an eye on them.