There are times when you can’t prepare in advance. I was sitting around going through some photographs in Lightroom on a Sunday morning when I started to see warnings of a strong storm approaching. There had previously only been a fairly slight chance of strong storms. I grabbed a camera, tripod, and my lightning trigger and headed out a short distance in hopes of getting some shots of lightning bolts. Fortunately, I had recently charged the lightning trigger. I got to a location where I had a fairly decent view of the storm coming in. The warnings listed 50+ MPH winds, hail, and heavy rain.
As you can see in the photograph there was lightning, and lots of it, just not the lightning bolts I had hoped to be able to photograph.
This photo was only 4 minutes after the first. At this point, I’m almost running back to the car to load my stuff inside and get back to the garage where I park.
It’s always good to have a plan in advance because sometimes you don’t have time to prepare. About 2 minutes later, the 50+ MPH wind, hail, and heavy rain hit.
I came away empty-handed for cool lightning photographs but was able to photograph a very photogenic storm.
Photographer Clay 
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