Mike Olbinski Photography
Crashdown
Headed out with the kiddos around 9:30 yesterday morning with southeastern AZ as our target and we pretty much spent the day in an area from Willcox to Elfrida and while it started off slow and frustrating (especially seeing what we were missing up north), stuff started ramping up the closer it got to dark. I dunno if it's all usable, but shot over 500gb of time-lapse yesterday and sat in one spot by Willcox for around 90 minutes shooting lightning that was landing just a couple of miles away by the end.
But before all that...just as the sun was about to set, we watched this new storm pop-up over the Dragoon Mountains. Watched it for a bit, but it wasn't super active at the time, and one further south near Bisbee was going crazy. So I dropped south aways and found an awesome open dirt road. Started shooting the storm to the south which put out some insanity, but then my original Dragoon storm started going off, so I pointed the 50mm towards it and went back to my other two cameras.
Couldn't believe it when I saw this strike on the back of the camera. One of my favorites of the summer for sure. Dual clear air bolts, maybe positives, just exploding out of the storm, landing in a nice open area, one of them hitting the tiny little hill on the right, and the other possibly on that left hill. Not to mention some night twilight left in the sky and a teeny bolt poking out the top.
Fantastic day, got to hang out with my buddy Chris Frailey for most of it and the show at the end of the night had us hooting and hollering for quite awhile haha. More to come!
/end ramble
Crashdown
Headed out with the kiddos around 9:30 yesterday morning with southeastern AZ as our target and we pretty much spent the day in an area from Willcox to Elfrida and while it started off slow and frustrating (especially seeing what we were missing up north), stuff started ramping up the closer it got to dark. I dunno if it's all usable, but shot over 500gb of time-lapse yesterday and sat in one spot by Willcox for around 90 minutes shooting lightning that was landing just a couple of miles away by the end.
But before all that...just as the sun was about to set, we watched this new storm pop-up over the Dragoon Mountains. Watched it for a bit, but it wasn't super active at the time, and one further south near Bisbee was going crazy. So I dropped south aways and found an awesome open dirt road. Started shooting the storm to the south which put out some insanity, but then my original Dragoon storm started going off, so I pointed the 50mm towards it and went back to my other two cameras.
Couldn't believe it when I saw this strike on the back of the camera. One of my favorites of the summer for sure. Dual clear air bolts, maybe positives, just exploding out of the storm, landing in a nice open area, one of them hitting the tiny little hill on the right, and the other possibly on that left hill. Not to mention some night twilight left in the sky and a teeny bolt poking out the top.
Fantastic day, got to hang out with my buddy Chris Frailey for most of it and the show at the end of the night had us hooting and hollering for quite awhile haha. More to come!
/end ramble