Just returned from a mind-blowing time in Las Vegas! Tired, worn out and dry.....yup, dry! There is no humidity there whatsoever and stepping off the plane in Florida reminded me what I had missed the past 5 days.

How one can miss that wet sheen of the Florida night is hard to comprehend, but it does happen....

Anyways, I am back home and the usual afternoon showers/thunderstorms made it to my neighborhood, right on schedule. I quickly decided to break out my new lightning trigger that I bought 2 weeks ago for the shuttle Atlantis launch, and placed it right in the back seat of my Ford F-150 to test the trigger. The above image is the first lightning that made it to the CF card.

The rest of this summer should be fun, just need to find the right location for some more fascinating lightning images......send me your ideas!

Shuttle Atlantis landing

So here I sit in my hotel room, the Mandalay Bay, in Las Vegas waiting to finish the video edit for a client of mine. It has been a hectic 3 days so far and though they are very pleased with what I have captured so far, my mind is mush.....

The space shuttle Atlantis lands in a few hours back in Florida and I don't leave Vegas until tomorrow afternoon. Safe to say that I won't make it to the landing pad....and there is no "next time" to get the desired images......guess what....life goes on. There are times when you really want to be there and unfortunately there are times when you just can't. This is the way the photo industry works, and the sooner you figure that out, the less stressed you will be. Trust Me!

To all of my colleagues who will be there, I wish you nothing but the best. Get the exposure right and make history, you've obviously put in the time and deserve to capture beautiful images. Make us proud.

I just came across a cool shot of mine that got picked up today: cool slideshow here-

http://foxnewsinsider.com/2011/07/20/slideshow-nasas-space-shuttle-program/#23