Messing with my newly acquired Pentax slide camera, out an open window, as a passenger in a moving vehicle (hence the blurred foreground), I don’t even recall why I was aiming this way, much less shooting. It certainly wasn’t out of foreknowledge of this: an eye-blistering, eardrum-throttling lightning strike about 100 yards away, in the row of short trees extending along the background. Every fork is a step-leader branch that didn’t hit the ground charge before the main channel did. This blast was under a different rear flank of what was becoming a complex supercell that yielded the oldest cumulus congestus photo in the Mini Cloud Atlas.
3 WNW Roll OK (20 Apr 89) Looking NNW
35.7979, -99.7615