So we spent a few weeks in Lethbridge just hanging with the family and getting Cadbury, our 6 month old toy poodle (don't judge me), used to the place, but it soon came time to start our travels. A few nights before we left there was a momentous thunder storm (well for me anyway, it's probably an everyday occurrence for locals) which had me mesmerised. I grabbed my camera and tried to take some pictures of the lightning. I know there is special equipment for taking photos of lightning, but I thought I'd manage it without, somehow. After about 50 shots I had nothing but a few bright shapes which were out of focus, mainly due to the fact that once your brain has registered the lightning it is already gone. I knew that to get the shot I was going to have to get lucky so I started waiting for gaps in the lightning and took shots of the sky hoping lightning would strike. It didn't, although I got the shot through the rain splashed window with lightning moving from cloud to cloud, which I think is rather nice. I had about 200 shots by this time with only the one decent photo to show for it and the storm had moved to the rear side of the house. I went out into the back garden and holding my camera aloft into the rain drenched sky I took a short burst of pictures. The result is above, as I very luckily captured a streak of bolt lightning and failed to be burnt or killed in the process.
