It’s been the ONE thing missing; a good chance to shoot lightning… and holy shit did that came in spades tonight! It’s 4:23am right now, I’m probably gonna crash hard here shortly, but OMG did I just have a night!!! How many times in my career have I left the house with the simple intention to try and get a few lightning photos, then by the time I get home, the world blew up! Oh I cannot WAIT to write up this chase log. I was in PJs at home, had a late pizza dinner, and suddenly a few storms fired; I put on real clothes (something in me said don’t make this a PJ outing), grabbed a couple cameras, and instead of hopping to a nearby hill, I positioned ahead of the developing line north of Greeley. It started meh, and for about 20 minutes, I clicked away with not much to show. Suddenly everything went nuts, the line thickened and went severe, and I shot west to beat the Greeley hail core and set up in Windsor where I got the shot posted above before another core overtook me. From there, it was a hail chase, and I ended up watching Highway 60 get buried under several inches of hail.
I’ve been saying for weeks… all that I need now is a good lightning photo… and I got about 50. lol I’m over the moon right now happy, literally happier than any tornado chase this year. This is and always has been my favorite thing to shoot, and tonight, Colorado put out BIG TIME! Oh yeah, and it hailed like hell, too…
Chase log coming… but a pillow needs my face in it right now…
