Lilacs

One of my favorite things — to smell the lilacs blossom.

Four Minutes of Lightning

I have a covered upstairs balcony, perfect for taking photos when it's rainy out. During the storms Tuesday night we had some spectacular lightning, and I spent a few minutes collecting lightning shots with several 30 second exposures. Here are 8 of those photos stacked in Photoshop using the Lighter Color layer blending mode.


There was one gigantic blast at the end that I didn't include in the stack — it's so bright it blows out the dramatic skies from the rest of the frames. But it was impressive on its own, and it echoed for several seconds. Look at how it lit up the parked cars.