Tempest in Rome

This is the little town of Rome Oregon in the lower eastern part of the state. My friend Bruce and I took an amazing couple of days to drive out and explore. What we found there was amazing. I'll be posting more photos in time.

 

On this evening Bruce and I had finished photographing a sunset at The Pillars of Rome, an interesting geologic formation of weathered sedimentary sandstone, and had started to see flashes of lighting in the sky behind the formation. We decided to move to a location that gave us a clearer view of the sky. We decided that the little store and gas station of Rome Station and its neon and sodium lights were about as good as any so we set up. The lighting was incredible and was so close that the boom was only a few seconds behind the flash of the lightning.

 

We were able to get a few shots as the storm front came upon us and started dropping rain drops the size of grapes. As soon as the rain started the wind started to blow. It was an amazing tempest.

 

This is the best shot that I made while we stood there watching the show.

Done