We went to Southwick Beach State park, on the eastern shore of lake Ontario, over the weekend for our annual rendezvous with family and friends. Most nights we had strong thunder storms this one hung out over the middle of the lake and didn't seem to move for hours. Even so it took about 50 tries to get these two shots only about 5 minutes apart. Each try means I point the camera towards the storm and take a 15 second exposure. If the lightning strikes in that time it's like a flash bulb going off and only represents a fraction of a second even though the camera is taking a picture for 15 seconds. Then it takes about 10 more seconds to save the picture before you can take another picture. If you study them closely you'll see that each picture has at least two or three lightning flashes hiding in the clouds. This storm was about 20 miles out on the lake so the pictures have been cropped down by about 50%. They have also been filtered to remove "noise" associated with low light that makes them look snowy.