God light paints too.....

It's called lightning and it's quite deadly, but lots of fun to photograph. I was out for about 20 minutes last night and got my "holy grail" of a picture before the rain started to pour. My trick was to set the camera to Manual, use auto focus on the lens to find a light far away and focus on it, set it to manual focus, set the aperture to 5.6 and set the shutter speed to 30 seconds. I zoom out as far as possible to get as much sky, I point it up so there's very little land (it's just black anyway and a waste of space) and then start shooting. It was a real trick to guess where the next strike would be, the storm was all around me.

Here are my two best shots.....