Driving north up I-25 yesterday from New Mexico to Colorado I ran into some more of that monsoon weather, with rain and lightning. Just as I was approaching Raton NM, I noticed a bunch of lightning going off in one location to the west. I took the first exit in Raton, and just headed west. I ran into the field of flowers maybe 2 miles out of town, saw the bluff, the lightning was at the right angle, so I stopped, set up and started shooting.
While I have a lightning trigger, I didn't have time to try and set it up as the wind was moving the clouds and storm along rather fast, So I just locked in the Remote Release and let it shoot away. I think in about 30 mins of time I caught 4 or 5 lightning strikes with the camera, and this one making the X pattern was the most interesting to me.
Well my thoughts are that it is pretty spectacular. That is an awesome looking cloud, almost funnel like. And then the lightning to top it off. Way cool. Was it raining (on you) when you took these shots?
ckcarr wrote:
Great catch Jim!
We don't get many shots here from that neck of the woods..
I don't see an X, I see a thin giant walking. He even has skinny arms...
Ha ha... Well, it does kind of look like a thin Groot...
I am glad you liked the shot, thanks!
Jim
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stanparker wrote:
That is very spectacular. Who says you have to plan shots for them to be outstanding? I'd say you really took advantage of a situation.
Hey Stan, thanks so much. I do think as we grow as photographers we are better able to be aware of changing situations and respond. I am glad I was able to come across this area as sometimes the hard thing with just jumping off the freeway in a strange place is finding a clean composition area.
Jim
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Sunny Sra wrote:
HA! SO this is the one you were gloating about at midnight while texting me....well you suck! Whatsup with the square format?
Ha... yep.... this is one! I do think it was worth a midnight text.
Glad you liked it. Actually it's a 4:5 format. I did experiment with a true square crop. There was an area to the left where there weren't any flowers so I cropped that area off and the 4:5 seemed to lend itself to this then.
