“July 25, 2012 saw just about every storm chaser in Southern Ontario pulling an all nighter. A front moving across from Michigan was set to hit almost all of Southern Ontario with some severe weather. The storms this night did not disappoint; they came about 2 hours later than expected, but when they did they came with a vengeance! I had parked myself in an open field right in the path of where I expected the strongest storm to form, and it roared in with continuous lightning, pea sized hail and very heavy rain.
While I was sitting in the field taking pictures, I did not realize that the core of the storm was slowing moving right over me, and before I knew it, I was caught inside with torrential rain and pea sized hail — I could hardly see anything! To top it off, lightning was striking all around me very frequently, blinding me for a few seconds each time (it was close to 3am at this point).
Of course, I wanted a photo, so I set my tripod up on across my lap, pointed out the drivers side window, and started taking 30-second exposures while trying to drive out of the core. The lightning was so frequent that I got one just about every shot but this one hit very close, just on the other side of a narrow dirt road, hitting a tree, right in the center of the frame — it was definitely a one in a million shot!”
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