Gloria Cropper

I grew up in Kansas where storms were common and came with assertiveness. Living in Seattle now for twenty years I have greatly missed thunderstorms like it was a lost love of mine that I hadn’t known I loved until it was gone. Then one September night, without warning, I heard thunder from my home and then I saw a bright light flash from my window. Could it be? I drove to my neighborhood viewpoint with my umbrella hovering over my camera and I photographed and yelled out in glee to have had my lost love visit me.

Richard Taft

Emerald Lake was the first location we stopped at during the August 2019 Lassen Volcanic National Park Night Photography Workshop.  The frogs were very noisy as we initially made our way down the path around the lake to our imaging site … the night sky was specular as we were looking south to the central core of the Milky Way.  This is a single image taken with a Canon 6DM2 camera and a Sigma Art 20mm lens (15sec, f/2, iso6400).