The chase day was over, or so it seemed; I had finished shooting outflow clouds in twilight, and headed for dinner and a room at a familiar motel in Burlington. The atmosphere had different plans, but at least let me eat and relax for an hour or so first. Then some elevated thunderstorms erupted atop the outflow west of town shortly before midnight, luring me back out westward a short distance for a peek and photography, only to end up back in the motel parking lot a minute after midnight shooting this booming spectacle! Little did I know it would not be the last nice lightning shot I snagged from within dozens of feet of a motel room in 2021; a month and a half later, I would be doing the same in Benson AZ.
Burlington CO (23 May 21) Looking NW
39.2973, -102.28