This photograph was made near the Tempe Center for the Arts right next to Town Lake. The lightning that night was incredible and I got about a dozen photographs that I’m really happy with. This is a single exposure, processed in Photoshop CS3 for color/contrast. The exposure was ISO 100 f/8, 30 sec.
The sunsets in Arizona are usually pretty amazing this time of year, due to the monsoon season. We get a lot more clouds and storms that bring more interesting colors than usual. I’ve seen so many good ones but this is the first chance I had to go out on purpose to shoot the sunset...
I’ve been wanting to get a decent lightning shot over these silos for quite sometime. In fact, when I photographed the silos a few weeks ago, I was out hoping for some good lightning to help with the picture. I finally got my shot on the 31st of July. The exposure was f/13, 30 sec,...
Two weeks ago we had a pretty intense lightning storm. I was out in it for about 3 hours and made several images at Tempe Town Lake, while standing under the Mill Ave. bridge. The rain was coming down pretty bad but I was able to get under the bridge when it let up. In...
I photographed another storm today and it was awesome. I was trying to get to downtown Phoenix to photograph some lightning with the high rises, but I couldn’t just keep driving with a show like this going on. I pulled over off of the 202 and Greenfield Rd. in north Mesa and made several lightning...
This is another shot from the storm we had on the 25th. It is a single exposure at f/11, 30 seconds, ISO 200. I took this shot from Thomas Rd, just west of Higley in north Mesa looking northwest.
