June 4, 2009

• That was too close

  Recently we had a violent storm roll through. 60mph gusts with hail and fork lightning is not a big deal in Oklahoma, but here in our little anti-burgh it is definitely not common. I thought it would be fun to go outside and try to capture it with my camera. Turns out it had the same idea about me and got way too close for comfort. The glare where you can’t see anything is a single angry bolt that overexposed. And there’s it’s little brother that showed up about 5 seconds later, seen in the next picture. Thing is, I didn’t capture the really big bolts, which were being hurled around like the gods playing a drunken game of lawn darts.
  

   
  I thought it was interesting the way the underside of the clouds is illuminated here, but found it more interesting that I continued to behave like an idiot and stand outside photographing this insanity. I learned something about myself, which is that my self-preservation instinct apparently is not as strong as I would like to believe.

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