The action of a true photographer. Don't think I'd have taken that chance considering the heavy rain you describe. Glad you were rewarded with a couple very nice scenes.
Jack --- On Mon, 6/28/10, Charles Robinson <charl...@visi.com> wrote: > From: Charles Robinson <charl...@visi.com> > Subject: PESO: St. Anthony Falls by Night > To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <pdml@pdml.net> > Date: Monday, June 28, 2010, 7:13 AM > While waiting for my wife to get off > of work a few nights ago, I decided to take advantage of the > weather-resistance of the ol' K7. There was a > thunderstorm rolling through town at the time and it was > raining like heck (a lot of lightning). > > I grabbed the camera with the ultrapod-II "tripod" and went > down to the edge of the Mississippi to try and grab some > lightning shots. > > 45 minutes later, I was soaked to the skin and had some > pretty stuff but only one of the 80 frames had even a hint > of lightning. I SAW some cool flashes but did not > capture almost any with the camera. > > What slays me about these images is that you can't even > tell it's raining. Funny! It was REALLY coming > down. > > A pair that look kind of nice to my eye: > > http://charles.robinsontwins.org/photos/2010/IMGP2750.jpg > > (16mm, 8 seconds, f4.0, ISO 200) > > http://charles.robinsontwins.org/photos/2010/IMGP2755.jpg > > (16mm, 13 seconds, f7.1, ISO 200) > > -Charles > > -- > Charles Robinson - charl...@visi.com > Minneapolis, MN > http://charles.robinsontwins.org > http://www.facebook.com/charles.robinson > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link > directly above and follow the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
