| By 5:40 pm lightning
was becoming more frequent to the left toward the SW, so I shifted to the
new action. This cell really shot out the lightning in spectacular
style. Many bolts struck too far the left, obstructed by the airport
building, so I had to miss the peak direction of action. Even so,
there were plenty of beautiful bolts striking quite often. I noticed
a number of times when the bolts appeared as quick single bursts of light.
To the naked eye they only appeared as blurs rather than well defined bolts.
My only regret is that I should not have adjusted the exposure one step
brighter just after I began shooting to the SW. Some of the overexposed
bolts above could have looked much better. Still no thunder even
though some bolts may have only been 4 to 5 miles away. I continued
shooting in this direction until 6:08 pm. At that point the new cells
were getting very active over Lake Pontchartrain to the N and NE. |
