Summer storms

Saturday wasn't too bad weatherwise for most of the day. Along about 11:00 p.m. the clouds came rolling in and I saw lightning coming up in the distance, so I grabbed the camera and found a dry spot to sit and take long exposures. Had fun watching the storm and shooting the lightning until it was directly overhead and pouring down rain, figured then it was time to skedaddle indoors.

Summer night skies

Haven't had much time to play with the cameras during the daytime hours, but there have been a few nights when I got out the barndoor tracker and took a few shots. These were taken just past midnight on August 2, 2011. The first on is looking southwest. Lens Sigma 10-22mm set at 10 mm, ISO 400, f 4.0, 267 seconds exposure.

The second shot is northeast to southwest, same shot settings, exposure time 249 seconds. Both shot in RAW and converted to .jpg

The Perseid meteor shower is coming up Friday night/Saturday morning, predictions are for clear skies. The only drawback will be the near full moon. Going to be interesting trying to shoot meteors with the bright moonlight.