Snarl

While my wife and I took in the view of a line of storms over Lake Michigan (yesterday's post) at Wind Point, this is what was brewing behind us. The day's weather had one more punch left and we were about to receive it.

I quickly set up the shot with my camera on a tripod. While I calculated the exposure, my wife grabbed the camera bag and headed for the car. I shot four frames. Immediately the wind picked up and great big drops of rain began to fall from the sky, accompanied by the low growl of thunder.

I grabbed the tripod and began a sprint to the car. It was only a couple of days later that I realized that the metal tripod would have made a dandy lightning rod.

We waited out the storm in the car. When it was over, I ventured out again to catch the Wind Point light and the calm post-storm sky.

That photo tomorrow.

Click on picture to enlarge - you can almost hear nature's snarl. Photograph © 2006 James Jordan.