WOA! That was exciting!
Not that I haven’t seen thunderstorms before in my life, but still. This was one of the better ones we get in this -usually- thunderforsaken place. It all started when things got really, really dark really, really fast.
D700, ISO1600, 1/4 sec @ f/8, Nikkor 50mm
Usually I’m quite fast with taking out and setting up the stuff, but this time I was just so in awe about the power of the whole thing that I stood there on the balcony with the Better Half just watching it unfold. Then I quickly ran back inside, grabbed camera, tripod and remote shutter, put a plastic bag over the camera (it had started to rain really badly), set everything up on the balcony, put the camera on C-high with the remote shutter locked and a long exposure time. And then I continued to stand there with the Better Half watching it unfold (I even missed -like- an hour of Star Wars Return of the Jedi – which I’ve never seen before in my life!).
It was just too cool, literally, after having been fried in plastic balcony renovation plastic, which they took down only two days ago!
D700, ISO200, 10 sec @ f/19, Tamron 28-75mm
D700, ISO200, 10 sec @ f/27, Tamron 28-75mm
D700, ISO200, 30 sec @ f/16, Tamron 28-75mm
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and we were driving home when it was about to start and it was crazy beautiful … the black wall over the sea and the white yachts just shining against it. of course, camera was sitting safely at home 🙂
Yes, this looked like a vulgair display of power