Lighting Photos Revisited

Last time I tried taking pictures of lightning in any kind of decent storm they didn’t turn out very well. This time, instead of having a little P&S camera, I was prepared with my Canon 40D. With the help of the sky-darkening ominous clouds, it gets dark early enough now that by the time the 9:00 storm rolled around I could take long exposures, which is always helpful when trying to photograph lightning. That, and it wasn’t actually raining here, so there was nothing to obscure my view. In the end I managed to collect 27 pictures with good amounts of lightning, a few of which were quite spectacular. Of course, it always helps to have the provincial legislature in the foreground as well.