Caught in a Thunder Storm

Do you know what's the best thing about summer? Nope, it's most certainly not the sunshine, the heat, or all that shrivelling on the sun. 

It's all those amazingly beautiful thunder storms! I love love love storms, the larger the better (that's what she said), especially when there are earthshaking thunders and breathtaking lightnings all around. Not to mention the sweet and ever so marvelous scent of rain, and random cool drops soothing my blazing skin. Heavenly, isn't it?

We have had one of those gorgeous thunderstorms tonight, the air filled with the roaring sound of thunders for hours, while hundrends of lightnings have hit the ground. And I finally managed to catch a lightning with my camera! Well, actually, it was the first time I have ever tried, so there's no point in saying finally. Still, taking a photo of a lightning has always been one of my photography-related goals. Because it's something very unique, something that does not happen every other night, that is rather hard to catch, that's more instantaneous than more than anything else. Taking a half-decent photo of a lightning is not that easy at all. (Well, probably it is not that difficult if you have a decent camera and you use the proper settings. But I never found out what the proper or most helpful settings were. I guess I like making things more difficult than necessary.)

Anyway, with all those lightnings gilding the sky, I took my chance tonight, pegged down by the window as soon as the storm broke out, and did not leave until I had something relatively half-decent stored on the memory card of my camera. As you can see, it is a tiny-little, baby lightning, rather boring, no branches (or whatever they are called), no grandiose phenomena hitting the sky whatsoever. 

It might be yellower, it might be sourer, yet, it's mine. Next time, it will be better. I promise. I will not leave the window until it's better.

Until then, it's one small thunder for mankind, but one giant thunder for my photography.