{"id":1239,"date":"2010-07-26T10:35:01","date_gmt":"2010-07-26T15:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=1239"},"modified":"2010-07-26T10:35:01","modified_gmt":"2010-07-26T15:35:01","slug":"last-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2010\/07\/last-night\/","title":{"rendered":"Last night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Stormyroad2.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Stormyroad2\" width=\"740\" height=\"318\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1240\" \/><br clear=\"all\"\/>Just a few shots from last night as an active but small thunderstorm cell passed quickly through the area. I had actually gone out on errands after the storm, seemingly insignificant, passed my area, and drove directly into a seething thunderhead. Had to go back to get my cameras and ended up missing the best part of the storm.<\/p>\n<p>The foreground is &#8220;okay,&#8221; not ideal, but you can&#8217;t direct the storms where you want them. My area actually has few locations with a good view of the horizon, and using gaps in trees works terribly &#8211; lightning is rarely so obliging to stay in the gap. The cell was moving away from me, bearing right a little, but the most distinct flashes were to the left side of the frame. To the right, however, was the full moon that rapidly got covered by clouds &#8211; the glowing edge you see at top right comes from the moon hidden only minutes before.<\/p>\n<p>I fired off 48 frames, trying to balance the traffic and the lightning strikes, and got only a few usable images &#8211; that&#8217;s how it goes. Some can be cropped tighter, like below. Some have squiggly little bolts like a child got their hands on a fine-tip white marker, which is not what you want from storm shots. To get the number of useful frames that I did actually means it was a successful night, and I&#8217;m cool with it.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Summerstorm.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Summerstorm\" width=\"740\" height=\"551\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1243\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a few shots from last night as an active but small thunderstorm cell passed quickly through the area. I had actually gone out on errands after the storm, seemingly insignificant, passed my area, and drove directly into a seething thunderhead. Had to go back to get my cameras and ended up missing the best [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[179],"class_list":["post-1239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature","category-photo","tag-lightning-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}