Lightning over the high desert of Arizona near Winslow

Today’s post takes us back to my recent Arizona storm chasing trip and more specifically to the day up in the high desert near Winslow, AZ for an image I called Winslow Lightning.  Perhaps if the strike would have been right over Winslow, instead of to the east, I would have called it “striking on a corner in Winslow Arizona” :-)

This image ended up being my second favorite image from the entire Arizona trip, I have yet to share my favorite, but it will be coming soon.

If you take a few seconds to look through my weather photography gallery you will find a lot of lightning images that were created at night.  I love lightning at night, in general you can see more fine detail in the tendrils of the strike, but you also have the risk of not having anything else all that interesting in the scene.

On my recent storm chasing trip to Arizona I really didn’t have much of an opportunity to capture lightning after dark, the vast majority of the storms while I was there died out just prior to sunset, but I did manage to get a few, and I thought I would share a couple night strikes in this quick post.

Lightning near Camp Verde, AZ during the 2014 Arizona monsoon season

More lightning near Camp Verde, AZ during the 2014 Arizona monsoon season

Stay tuned, I have more images from my week storm chasing in Arizona to come.

My friend and fellow storm chaser Bryan Snider shooting a thunderstorm over the Painted Desert near Winslow, AZ

The highlight of my trips back to Arizona storm chasing the last 2 years has been spending a full day chasing with my friend Bryan Snider.  Bryan seems to be something of a lucky charm for me when it comes to getting some memorable images.

Last year while chasing at the Grand Canyon, we didn’t really get the weather we wanted, but I did manage to capture on of my favorite images of all time, Grand Canyon at Sunset.  For this year’s trip to the Painted Desert and Winslow, AZ, the weather gods cooperated nicely and I have a good number of images that I have already shared and will be sharing from the trip, but I wanted to share this one.  I have always been a sucker for a picture of a photographer making an image, but when it is of a photographer making an image of a storm, that is even more better. :-)  (yes, I know I just said more better)

I hope you enjoy the image, and as always, even if I forget to mention it, please click on the image to see a larger version.