Into The Storm
In an earlier post I had mentioned there was one moment that both Bill and I had caught on camera, and had sent Bill straight to the ground... This is that moment.
I was using 15-20 second shutter speeds trying to capture the lighting strikes, and on this particular shot not much had happened for the first few seconds. Then this burst of cloud to cloud lightning all happened at once and raced towards us from the valley and right over top out heads. I heard Bill yell something then drop straight to the ground with his mouth wide open in awe. We both looked at each other, then we waited what felt like an eternity waiting for the shutters of our cameras to close. As soon as they did we both quickly checked our LCD's and then began to jump around like two kids on Christmas morning. There was a family who had pulled up in a van moments before this and witnessed our celebration, and then joined in with our excitement.
Photographer side note: I love Outdoor/Landscape photography and consider myself as such. When I see great landscape images entered in "Photo of the year" contests in some national publications and on the web, you never see any from Shenandoah National Park (SNP), and I understand why I think. SNP doesn't have the majestic mountains and waterfalls that other western national parks offer for the "Grandscape" type of image. But what SNP lacks in way of "Grandscape" it makes up for in the details. This shot is what SNP offers that a lot of other parks don't... it lets you be right there.
Thanks for looking and reading!
Into The Storm
In an earlier post I had mentioned there was one moment that both Bill and I had caught on camera, and had sent Bill straight to the ground... This is that moment.
I was using 15-20 second shutter speeds trying to capture the lighting strikes, and on this particular shot not much had happened for the first few seconds. Then this burst of cloud to cloud lightning all happened at once and raced towards us from the valley and right over top out heads. I heard Bill yell something then drop straight to the ground with his mouth wide open in awe. We both looked at each other, then we waited what felt like an eternity waiting for the shutters of our cameras to close. As soon as they did we both quickly checked our LCD's and then began to jump around like two kids on Christmas morning. There was a family who had pulled up in a van moments before this and witnessed our celebration, and then joined in with our excitement.
Photographer side note: I love Outdoor/Landscape photography and consider myself as such. When I see great landscape images entered in "Photo of the year" contests in some national publications and on the web, you never see any from Shenandoah National Park (SNP), and I understand why I think. SNP doesn't have the majestic mountains and waterfalls that other western national parks offer for the "Grandscape" type of image. But what SNP lacks in way of "Grandscape" it makes up for in the details. This shot is what SNP offers that a lot of other parks don't... it lets you be right there.
Thanks for looking and reading!