Over the last week, we had a few days of storms throughout the district within driving distance of home. I had grand plans to spend the day chasing lightning to get my first bolt. However the local supermarket that I work at is facing staff shortages which meant my plans were delayed to pick up some extra shifts.
Fast forward two days. I finished work at 4pm and was heading home when I saw some stunning clouds in the distance. With the faint sound of thunder rumbling in the distance I raced home, got changed, picked up my camera bag and raced back to the car.
Some curious cows coming over to say g'day
I had a look at my lighting tracker app and decided that I would go for my "bucket shot" at a wind farm about 40 mins away. On my way out it started pelting down with rain and I knew I had no chance of getting out there in time.
Instead, I headed to 'The Mortlake South Wind Farm' which is currently under construction where I got my first shot of the trip. It was here where the rain started to come down.
Once I got this panorama it was a race to get somewhere in front of the storm.
I was able to get in front of the storm, and found this comp of a cool windmill with the storm in the background!
The light behind the windmill looks really cool, but wasn't intentional when framing it!
I was heading along the road when I stumbled across a really cool shearing shed which had the storm behind it! This was the perfect spot to capture the storm, and I created a panorama from 7 vertical images to include the whole structure and storm.
An old shearing shed found down a side road when storm chasing!
This was my favourite image from the trip and made me extremely happy that I decieded to venture out even though I had little plans on where to end up.
If I hadn't listened to my gut when deciding whether to go for it, I would have probably never found this really cool location!
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