Dead Horse Point Lightning Strike
Awards / Publications:
- People's Choice Award, Outdoor Photographer 2011 Great Outdoors Photo Contest (10,000+ entries)
- Chosen as desktop wallpaper for Outdoor Photographer's website (June 2011)
- August 2nd 2011 Earthshots Photo Of The Day Contest Winner
- Honorable Mention Open Landscape 2011 National Center For Nature Photography Annual Photo Contest (against 556 total entries). It didn't have a chance to place due to a category sweep from 3 of my other photos - Blazing Sunset, Miner's Beach Starburst Sunset, and Corkscrew Falls.
This photo was taken at Dead Horse Point State Park during an intense afternoon of thunderstorms.
We had just been out scouting around for new location in nearby Arches National Park and had decided to come back to camp for a break when these thunderstorms really began to pop (late afternoon). By the time we arrived at the Dead Horse Point, I couldn’t get to the overlook fast enough. We scrambled down the sandstone to a spot that I had scouted out the day before and started shooting.
The conditions were tough – high winds were busting in from the canyon, we had the occasional light spray from the rain, and of course the lightning (which was actually a lot further away then it appears in the photo).
Although my son was just about screaming for me to leave (he was low and under a small recess), I kept at it until I had a shot with some lightning action. I must have shot 20 or 30 photos before this came together.
It’s funny, after I showed him the final shot he was glad we stuck around long enough to catch the lightning too.
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7 Responses to Dead Horse Point Lightning Strike
Congratulations, Steve. I have enjoyed your desktop photos for a few years and have saved many of them. I can see why you won acknowledement for your pohotography.
GloriaSo beautiful; I think it pretty well qualifies as “awesome,” “glorious” and some other things like that.
You show that being good isn’t enough. You really have to work at it too. Great job and congratulations.
A very nice shot.My oldest son took a great shot of a lightning bolt near our house one summer.
Thank you for all your beautiful pictures – you certainly have the midas touch when it comes to both photography and the internet. I enjoy your e-mails very much.
Best Regards
PilarHello! Just want to say thank you for this interesting article! =) Peace, Joy.
Great photo and interesting story.