Stormy Night

Well, as most of you know, it's been raining for days, and it looks like it's going to keep on raining for a few more days still, before we get some drier weather. Now while most of this rain has been light to moderate, without any lightning, thunder, wind, etc. (namely dreary and depressing), tonight we've had some decent lightning.

Photographing lightning has always been something I've been interested in, and tonight I got my first shot of some actual lightning bolts. They're not great, and the quality isn't stellar because my camera is not high end (I REALLY want a nice dSLR!), but I still managed to capture a lightning strike by setting a 30 second exposure time with an ISO speed of 80, an aperture value (f-stop) of 2.7, and a focal length length of 5.2 mm. Here is the resulting picture that I captured.