{"id":1520,"date":"2025-04-23T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.imaginarygardens.org\/?p=1520"},"modified":"2025-04-22T20:40:35","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T00:40:35","slug":"lightning-over-harden-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.imaginarygardens.org\/index.php\/2025\/04\/23\/lightning-over-harden-valley\/","title":{"rendered":"Lightning Over Harden Valley"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By Kaleb Guzman, Assistant Photo Editor<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

I was in my car leaving campus, listening to the storm in the distance. When I looked up, I saw thunder clouds gathering over the campus; at the same moment, I saw lightning. And then more lightning, and even more. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I watched for a few minutes before remembering I had my camera on me. Wasting no time, I got it out and found an empty part of the parking lot, aiming my lens towards the storm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To give an idea on just how much lighting there was, all of these photos were taken in 10 minutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To get the photos, I knew waiting to spot a lightning strike and hitting the shutter button would be too slow. By the time I could react and hit the button the strike would already be gone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How did I get around it, you ask? I recorded a video, setting the camera take 30 photos a second and relying on the odds of one of those frames to capture a photo of a strike. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

After filming the lightning, I reviewed the footage and when a strike appeared I went back frame by frame and saved the best one. Here are the results.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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