Dolly Sods Wilderness - With Lightning!

For those of you who are familiar with West Virginia, you may have heard of Dolly Sods Wilderness. For those of you who haven't heard of it, It's quite a spectacular place, filled with 17,371 acres of nothing but wide expanses of wild huckleberry plants, bogs, and stunted trees that seem to transport one's mind to Canada.

I was picking said huckleberries with my family, when a thunderstorm came rumbling up from the west, forcing us to make a very quick trek back to the truck. Once I was back there, I decided to do what ANY sane person would do and.......Climb on top of the tallest rock around with a camera and tripod to attempt to photograph lightning over this rugged and beautiful landscape.

Since lightning in the daylight is quite hard to get, I was reasonably pleased with the outcome. Let me know what you think!
Enjoy, -Darin

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Nice job, Darin! Dolly Sods is a wonderful place!

Wow, that looks like fun,... but I wouldn't have liked it getting any closer.

Nice. Like the first best.

Beautiful series well done.

Great shots...two of my favorite things, WV and lightning. I miss my home state.

seres wrote in post #17059486
Nice job, Darin! Dolly Sods is a wonderful place!

Jon Clemens wrote in post #17059705
Wow, that looks like fun,... but I wouldn't have liked it getting any closer.

tmcman wrote in post #17060721
Nice. Like the first best.

budcam wrote in post #17060804
Beautiful series well done.

Thank you all! The first is my favorite too.

WVUEerFan74 wrote in post #17061993
Great shots...two of my favorite things, WV and lightning. I miss my home state.

Thanks! It is beautiful here, I don't blame you for missing it! Whereabouts were you from?

D. Vance wrote in post #17062422
Thank you all! The first is my favorite too.

Thanks! It is beautiful here, I don't blame you for missing it! Whereabouts were you from?

I grew up in a small town called Ranson (right next to Charles Town) in Jefferson County. Moved away in 1991 to South Dakota (thanks parents ) and then joined the Air Force from which I just retired, which is why I am in Arizona currently.