More Lightning

This thunderstorm season had pretty much been a bust for me as there was a serious lack of good night-time thunderstorms. This past weekend we had a bunch of severe weather break out, which produced some pretty good storms. This picture was taken during the tail end of the storms and I LOVE it. Lightning is probably my favorite photographing subject, it's easy enough to get (by leaving the shutter open), but it is difficult to capture well. I probably take 50 pictures for every one that turns out good, but when it turns out there is definitely a sense of satisfaction.

Fire

I was out burning our trash the other night and thought it would make a cool picture. So I went in and got my equipment and started taking pictures. Unfortunately most did not turn out too good. There is a fine line between the shutter speed needed to make the flames appear sharp and having enough light (even with the aperture as open as it will go) to show the flames well. A few turned out good and I've posted the best one here.