Enlightening
These days I'm living the vampire life of shooting all night and sleeping all day. However; on the first day in Moab we tried to make a mad dash to catch the sunset. Unfortunately I was the guide and on a road, that my memory of, wasn't the best. We found a great location but it was to late for any good sunset light.
Not to waste the view, we cracked a few beers and watched the last remnants of light recede. Some clouds were moving across the ridge line behind us, and out of nowhere lightening came. Dustin (Dustin Farrell) remarked, that if we see one more bolt we were staying and shooting.
Sure enough one more bolt came and then another. We broke out cameras and started to shoot as rain started to move in. Then all of a sudden this massive bolt hit not to far from us and lit up the entire landscape. I was lucky enough to be in the middle of a long exposure and caught it.
It turns out that another photographer I know (Dylan Martin) was shooting at the exact same time and caught the same bolt down river from us.
The storm disappeared as quickly as it came.
Enlightening
These days I'm living the vampire life of shooting all night and sleeping all day. However; on the first day in Moab we tried to make a mad dash to catch the sunset. Unfortunately I was the guide and on a road, that my memory of, wasn't the best. We found a great location but it was to late for any good sunset light.
Not to waste the view, we cracked a few beers and watched the last remnants of light recede. Some clouds were moving across the ridge line behind us, and out of nowhere lightening came. Dustin (Dustin Farrell) remarked, that if we see one more bolt we were staying and shooting.
Sure enough one more bolt came and then another. We broke out cameras and started to shoot as rain started to move in. Then all of a sudden this massive bolt hit not to far from us and lit up the entire landscape. I was lucky enough to be in the middle of a long exposure and caught it.
It turns out that another photographer I know (Dylan Martin) was shooting at the exact same time and caught the same bolt down river from us.
The storm disappeared as quickly as it came.