| 1/30 | f5.6 | ISO 400 | 18mm | RAW |
Today's photo is more of a fun snapshot. Last night we got a ton of rain — officially seven inches. And the worst of it came down during a horrible lightning storm.
Near the end of the storm (around 5 a.m.) I heard a loud SNAP, followed immediately by a massive thunderclap. It clearly came from somewhere in front of the house. I thought for sure one of our trees had been struck.
In the morning we found out it was the massive poplar tree across the street in our neighbor's yard. In the photo you can see the strike went clear down to the ground, shattering off bark and wood as it went. Tannah is holding one of the pieces (which we had found in our yard) that had splintered off from the strike.
This is a straight-forward shot. I used my wide-angle lens to get as much of the 80-foot tree as I could, but I didn't want to step much further back so you could still make out the streak down the tree. I included Tannah to help give some relevance to how big the tree really is.
In hindsight, I should have shot it at ISO 800 or open up the aperture to f4. This would have increased the shutter speed to 1/60. I could have also had Tannah hold the piece of wood more to the side so you could make it out clearly. The way she is holding it in the photo makes it hard to visually separate it from her torso.
PS — this rain was the start of the great Atlanta flood of 2009. Luckily, we didn't get much more during the day. But some parts of the Atlanta area got two to three more inches as the day went on. I don't have any photos of actual flooding, but I will have some more rain- and storm-related photos coming up.
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