Lots Of Lightning

This image is a "stacked" combination of three separate exposures of lightning, each about ten seconds long at f/11, 320 ISO and 18mm focal length. The view looks east from Brentwood Drive NE in Cedar Rapids, Iowa just after 10:00 PM, Saturday, March 31, 2012. The storm, which was producing this lightning display had less than an hour earlier dumped dime size hail at this location in a duration of about five minutes. The hail began to fall without any rain preceding it!