I was pretty late to make the jump to digital, at least in a professional sense, and didn’t get my first DSLR until early 2008.  I had a couple cheap point and shoot digital cameras prior to that, but up until then I was still shooting film on a fairly large collection of Pentax gear.

I invested in my first DSLR in 2008, and made the jump to Nikon at that time.  I had a couple reasons for that, first and foremost was that Nikon was way ahead of Pentax when it came to digital equipment and secondly was that I had some photographer friends who shot with Nikon and I could borrow lenses from them.

Me switch to digital was not my start in weather photography, far from it actually, I had shot lighting in the Arizona desert for many years on film.  The switch to digital however really changed the game for me when it came to capturing lighting, and weather in general, as shooting and processing miles of film over the years can get quite expensive.  This image, shot in the Arizona desert on July 26, 2008 was the very first lighting strike that I every captured on a digital camera.  Since I am working on bringing some images back to my new iteration of this blog, I thought I would share this since there will be a lot more weather imagery to come.