 Long Lost Lightning
This is terrible. Well, it almost was. I came real close to losing this one forever.
In January 2000, we finally got rid of the ailing Buick station wagon that I'd been driving for the past 4 years. While doing a final clean-out of the old car, my uncle found a few rolls of film that had fallen down in to the 'mystery areas' of the car, along with the usual spare change and old gum wrappers.
After an unsuccessful storm chase (bust), I usually tossed the spent roll of film in the back seat and threw it away later.
This shot if from what I thought was a bust storm. I must have been looking the other way when this thing hit in front of the camera, because I honestly don't remember it. I threw the roll of film in the back seat where it 'vanished'. I never threw it away.
I don't even know when this was taken, but I do know that it's looking east from under the Greenbrier street bridge at the Piedmont Road railroad crossing in Charleston.
Discovered after 2 or 3 years of entombment in a station wagon: the Long Lost Lightning.
Camera/Lens/Film: 35mm Minolta SRT201 SLR, 35mm lens, Kodak 100 ASA.
Exposure: 10 to 30 seconds @ F8
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