Last week, my friends Jakob, Calin, and Jamie called me up to join them on a small lake near Discovery Parkway in Columbia, Mo. to fish.  Well, they fished.  I fished for lightning photographs.

Unfortunately, while the picture above is tack sharp, it’s not quite satisfying.  Later in the evening, I made another image that is far more pleasing–great color, great lightning strikes, including one on a cell phone tower–but is way, way out of focus when viewed at 100%.  Interestingly, when sized for this blog, it’s hard to tell that it’s soft, so I’ll share it here: