Discharged

A powerful cloud-to-cloud bolt of lightning discharges from beneath a low hanging cloud layer in the northeast sky as seen from Bowman Woods Park in Cedar Rapids, Iowa around 8:48 PM, Sunday, October 23, 2011. The autumn storm system, whose western edge is seen here, was moving left-to-right in the image and missed this location completely. Trees below the lightning bolt line Boyson Road NE. The image was created from a 7-second exposure at f/3.5, 800 ISO and an 18mm focal length. The air temperature at this time was a mild 63 degrees F.