Crash!

I must have jinxed myself on April 1st when I said I had an external drive for all my photos just in case of a PC crash. Well - said crash happened and oddly enough my exernal drive is missing everything too - - - and it wasnt even plugged in! UGH! Well, thank goodness for this blog, Facebook, and my iPhone photo cache. I will be spending freetime saving from various sites and starting from scratch. So, no photos for this entry. I have some to post but it will have to wait until the weekend.

Other news: I am going back to FL at the end of June. This maybe my last visit for a long time, sadly. BUT DisneyWorld is in the plans - all parks and a 2 night stay at The Contemporary on site. I have always wanted to stay there because of the inside monorail station. Silly, I know, but a childhood wish that will be coming true. I will also be attending a concert for my boyfriend's birthday party. He will then be packing up and moving to Texas a week later. I am happy about all of this.

LIghtning!

The other night, there was a spectacular lightning "show" in the skies and I decided to try my luck at catching some strikes on "film" (even though there is no "film" in digital cameras). After about 300 shots on the fastest shutter speed I could muster in a no-light situation - I got a few decent shots which I have either edited in photoshop ... or not. Usually I only crop because I am not good at creatively adjusting or manipulating what is already captured - just good at getting what I "see" into the shot... some people call this ability "a good eye" and I am happy with that particular gift/skill.

So, overall, I am happy with the results. Perhaps if I had a camera with a wider light ap-thingy, I would be able to get clearer shots. These are all pretty grainy but I still am happy with them.

These are all taken from my apartment balcony. I cropped the buildings out of most of the photos.

This was the first one I caught that was worth anything. Dramatic!

I had to lighten this one so the colors would be more noticable. Other than that, I did no adjustments. The colors are awesome!

 

I did edit the colors in this one as it was all orange-y.

This is obviously "solorized" but I like it because the photo looks like there is an eye in the sky - which reminds me of that old Alan Parson's Project song, "Eye in the Sky."

..... And here's a video from Youtube: