Stop it, he did not. :lol2:

Thanks all. It's something I have tried several times but did not get lucky until recently. Mostly, I would get the flash in the sky, but not the streak. It's simply being pointed in the right place at the right time and having the shutter open at that right time. It's not easy because we don't have a covered deck or porch. So, I have to have a storm with good lightning, but not raining yet. Thanks again!

LOL! Holding an umbrella? :D

The only trick (other than luck) is you have to be able to keep the shutter open for a given length of time. Capturing one in automatic mode is one in a million shot. I set my camera to manual and then adjust the aperture, ISO and shutter speed based on what I want out of the photo.

Got another one yesterday. This guy was about 4 feet long.

Your area is overrun with gators, Merc?

Not really overrun, but we have quite a few of them, esp where I live. These two are from a brood that came from a pond near by. A big momma gator has lived there for year, she is about 12 feet. Once a year she has babies and I think they are kicked out of her pond periodically as they grow. There are lots of places for them to go but they often find there way into our ponds. Since we have kids around and fish it the pond we don't want them that close. We also get an occasional sea otter that has to be professional captured to relocate.

With all those gators and rattlers and such, I guess you don't have a problem with woodchucks, then, eh?

Buddy of mine just got a job with Savannah Fire, I showed him some of your gator pictures Merc and he's not thrilled about potentially dealing with those things. He thought they only lived in the Florida glades!
The only gators we run into up here are in the zoos, and guarding meth labs. No really. There were a couple cases a few years ago where gators were found chained up inside meth houses like guard dogs.

Pilesgrove, NJ
Largest solar farm in the northeast (USA that is)

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Great catch, dmg!:thumb:

Thanks Grave!

Really tiny shroom
-taken w/ iphone 4
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I expect to see a smurf show up. :D

Its a red russula- in case you were wondering. :)

Kite surfers at sunset at The Fishermen's Huts beach in Aruba. Just the luck of the draw, I was driving by and it looked like it would be a great sunset so I set up and shot until it was dark.