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Tonight started at about 1AM and led me down to Ashland and Gretna, NE. This was definitely one of the best nights I have ever seen with lightning and I was determined to get some shots in. I had passed up Friday night for tonight and am I glad I did.

Above is a gallery of the best shots I had of the night. Not too many CG’s around, but a lot of crawlers. I happened to find a couple of radio towers in the area which were catching some lightning. Not as much as one would hope for, but enough for some good shots overall.

After 1 failed attempt near Glenwood, IA around midnight, I headed to Ashland, NE at around 3AM. There was tons of lightning to be found but the fog was too dense.

To the left is the best image I could get. Very minimal light to the right and some purple hue to the left. Got a little bit of video that I will consider uploading later.

This was a reasonably quick chase, just some lightning shots for the first thunderstorm of the year. Sounds weird saying this, but I missed the ping of hail on my roof. It wasn’t a great storm, so the lightning shots weren’t that great. I sat on a bridge over I-29 looking to the South and Southwest (most of these were shot facing Southwest) while every great once in a while a car would drive past me. One jerk even decided to scare the living hell out of me and honk as he got right behind me. Not fun at 10:30 at night alone on a country road. But, I take my chances.

These photos have been played with a little as far as the coloring is concerned. I was bored and decided to mess around a bit. They’re not outstanding lightning pics so there’s really no harm done.

Photographed in Northwest Omaha, Nebraska looking East. Obviously my best lightning chase so far. Simply had to go up the road to a church about 3 blocks away to do these shots. Shot on a Minolta DiMage 7i, most at 4″ shutter speeds.

These photos were taken just west of Crescent, Iowa at about 4:30 AM.

These were shot south of Omaha on Highway 50. north of Springfield Not a spectacular night, but there were some great colors to come out of this set!

This was one of my first attempts with lightning. Taken near the old Sunset Speedway in Omaha looking northwest. The storm literally appeared from nowhere.