By Mark J. Rebilas

With the Arizona Diamondbacks on the road and the monsoon season coming to a close any day now I decided to focus on trying to get some good lightning shots for stock. So armed with my macbook pro logged onto the doppler radar on weather.com via my verizon wireless card off I went in search of something good.

Nikon D3, 14-24mm, 100iso, f9, 30 second exposure

Day 1 led me into some empty farming fields near Queen Creek, AZ about 30 minutes prior to sunset to try and shoot some lightning. 

Nikon D3, 400mm, 100iso, f2.8, 1/1250th

There was only one problem…….no lightning! Checked the doppler radar again to see that the storm had fallen apart so I was stuck shooting the sunset. 

Continue reading “200 miles spent chasing sunsets and lightning”

 

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