Although disconcerting, even disappointing in regard to storm phenomena, the year 2010 allowed me to make two shots I dreamed a long time.
On May 10, I finally grasped the lightning in front sunset, walking through a storm with stubbornness towards our star who plunged ahead. For years I had this image in my mind! Another
running through my mind. That a meeting between the storm and the astronomical sky, the joy of seeing mingle on the same block lactescence of the Milky Way and the dazzling brilliance of lightning. Admittedly, I had already managed to raise lightning and the moon , but how to balance the glitter of these legions of eternity stars and lightning thundering asked, in addition to the need for a sensor very sensitive (and in this area that does wonders for the Pentax Kx) and a lens with a wide field (and there is the famous Sigma 10-20 EX excels), a combination of circumstances allowing me to have the storm ideally located with respect to the majestic arch of the Milky Way.
Tonight, September 7, 2010, all the conditions are finally met:
Twenty-eight minutes later, the outburst is imminent:
Following is the usual chaos, rain swing, gusts that shake the car and some small branches flying. I take the road to jump to another point of view that gives direction Lectoure and the valley of the Gers, that is to say towards the northwest, and I can watch the spectacle of these multiple foci stormy moving away while the stars reappear:
Some lightning storms Under the Stars from Pierre-Paul Feyte we Vimeo.
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