Lightning Strikes!

I don't know why, but it's always been an aspiration of mine to capture lightning.  I think part of it is because it really is harder than it looks! 

After my brother's wedding on Saturday, the girls and I were at Mom & Dad's new house putting away the left over food.  We went out on the front porch to relax for a little while, and since the rain hadn't started yet, we watched the storm roll in.  It was too perfect of conditions - lightning without rain & right at dusk.  I still had my camera and tripod in the car, so I set it up on the porch and experimented with different exposures.  The disappointing thing was that it was very cloudy and very few bolts and more illuminations of clouds. 

Another neat aspect to this image was that we were watching a lot of campers heading home from the State Park.  I love the trail of headlights and tail lights in this image, along with the gorgeous blues in the sky!  Over all, not a bad first attempt!