Wicksville Church

An en-lightning experience going to this church in Wicksville, South Dakota! Maybe this is where Zeus lives

Great and wonderful storm rolled through last night--I did the chase thing for a couple hundred miles but didn't get many shots as it was moving too fast. Every time I found a good location, got set up and shooting the storm would race away and I would race to catch up.

Got this shot on the way back when another storm popped up behind the first one. I was trying to get the church in a different angle and composition but these huge cloud crawlers kept going off right over head. When they are close enough you can hear them sizzle then you're too close! It seemed every great cloud crawler was accompanied by a cloud to ground strike. I got this shot and that was it for this location I backed off about 5 miles but by then the storm had moved out of range

Not the best shot--it's more about the lightning than the composition for me. Didn't realize the power lines were running across the top until I left I'll try to get some better ones another time