Wow! It's already beautiful. I love that color of blue. I've never heard of this plant. Thanks for posting this. If they take a photo for you, please post it!

I do the same thing! I've taken as many as 300 pics before coming to my senses. A few are always delete-able, blurry, etc., but then going through the remaining photos becomes a chore. Once again, Nice Photos! Kt

Doris..... I don't know where you are in MI, but we were in Kalamazoo all day Sunday, and it rained and rained and rained during a car show we attended. Your cloud is very pretty, but the mud we walked in was not. Julie

Thanks, all! Using my old Canon A-1 35mm, I could always double or even triple expose a photo, that is, if the first and second photos didn't capture any lightning. That is what I like about my digital camera, I can take hundreds of photos and they don't cost anything, unlike the 35mm film developing. I learned from my use of the A-1, to not waste film, so if you notice when there is a lightning cloud in the distance, you can count between the 'big' strikes, usually taking between 4 and 12 seconds in between strikes. The reason this happens is that once lightning strikes, it releases the negative charge, and it takes that long to build up again. Some strikes go about every four seconds, and some 12 or even more seconds between strikes. As the storm goes on for a while, the time between strikes will gradually get longer until it stops, but for a while, sometimes up to 30 minutes, but usually less, there is a regular pattern of time between strikes. Once you establish the time between strikes, then take the photo and increase the odds of getting a lightning shot. I set my camera ISO 100 and usually set it anywhere between 2 and 8 seconds, depending on how dark it is outside and how often it lightnings. Use a tripod or a windowpod as I did in both of these photos. I hope I explained this OK and I hope it helps. One last thing, take a LOT of pictures! You may get lucky. Even if you don't or can't establish a pattern, you are more likely to get a strike on film with lots of pictures. Here is some streak lightning. I was counting a pattern of about 10 to 12 seconds between strikes when I took this photo. It only struck four times after I took this photo. Kt