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Summer brings storms and storms bring a great opportunity to photograph lightning.  A lot of luck is involved in capturing a great lightning shot, but it is a lot of fun to try.  Here are a few I took off my back porch this past weekend.

The perfect picture of summer!

Last night I had the opportunity to spend some quality time with my wife and daughter. We spent the beautiful evening down at Waterfront Park for the Kentucky Derby Festival Balloon Glimmer. The Balloon Glimmer is an annual event where participants of the Great Balloon Race come down to the Great Lawn and inflate their balloons for everyone to see. It is quite an impressive sight!

The photo was featured on WAVE3 news last night at 11:00 and is supposed to be on again tonight at the 6:00 news. Check it out if you have a chance.

Check out some of the great events at the Kentucky Derby Festival website

There was a crazy looking full moon this evening so I just had to take a picture of it.  This was taken off my back deck (facing east) on a tripod mounted Nikon D700 w/ a 70-200mm lens.  f16 @ 1/8th sec exposure

Watch out UK cheerleaders, you have some competition!  These two very well might be on the UK cheerleading squad 16 years from now.  I am hoping the cuteness from the picture will disable Tim Tebow into a worthless quarterback and inspire the Wildcats to come away with a big win.  DON’T LET ME DOWN!