Lightning in Northen British Columbia

A shot from the severe lightning storm over Prince George last week in Northern British Columbia. We had a beautiful display looking back towards it out at Ness Lake although we lost power for a couple of hours. I have a few other shots from the storm I will edit up over the next week.

I took this shot from a floating dock so I could not use my preferred long exposure timelapse techniques to capture the lightning as the dock was shaking up and down with the storm. To overcome this I shot using a very fast lens (Sigma Art 50mm f1.4) and used a 1/320 exposure time at ISO 1600. I don't have a lightning sensor other than my eyes so I just manually let off the shutter in burst mode when I saw a burst of lightning. The end result here is 3 of the 1/320 exposures blended into a single image.

Robert Downie
Love Life, Love Photography

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