When desserts look like this…

I promised a friend I would post this image as well.

The bolts of lightning strikes down on Oslo. I used the evening and early night standing on my porch until the heavy rain forced me to go inside. I was considering setting up my camera to continue shooting through the night, recording pictures on my computer, but the sheer amount of pictures I would have to go through in the morning made me think otherwise.

All it takes is patience and a little bit of luck. I took more than a hundred pictures that night. Less than ten pictures came out good. The rest are either almost just black, or had lightnings going out of the frame. Another option could be using either a black card between shots, or a lightning sensor to trigger the shutter.

This one I was really pleased with.

A lot of fun can be made with the lights turned off and a bottle of vodka. Sometimes without even opening the bottle!

The picture was taken in a dark room with a flashlight swirling around the bottle. Using slow shutter is fun to do, but requires a lot of patience getting the right shot.