While I uploaded my last few photos from tonight’s high school football match up between Mesa’s Desert Ridge and Tempe’s Corona del Sol (live coverage and discussion over at varsity.evtrib.com), I thought I would share one of my few lightning photos. It’s taken me about 4 years as a staff photographer but I’ve finally caught one of these things in a neat setting:
I usually end up obsessing so much over where to shoot the lightning that by the time I pick a location the storm has passed.
This was a 4 …

So I ran into a situation last Friday night after grocery shopping and I thought I’d share with you.
After leaving the store with a cart full of food, I found myself watching a pretty good lightning show in the northwest part of town. Now we haven’t had a lot of lightning this year so when I see lightning (bolts), not heat lightning, I like to shoot it. Luckily – well maybe not luck, more like always being on the job- I had my camera gear in my car even …