On Saturday morning Tim, Jaxon and I went to a local forrest to get some happy snaps with the new Nikon. We didn’t plan it all that well and about an hour in Jaxon decided that he was hungry for more than the snacks that I had packed him so we headed home with plans to go to a different “rain forresty” kind of place the next day.

But when we woke up on Sunday morning it was raining. I can’t tell you how disappointed I was that we couldn’t go on our bush walk. It wasn’t the rain stopping us, but the new camera in the rain stopping us. We don’t have wet gear. We don’t even own raincoats because it rains here over summer so you dry as quick as you get wet.

So this morning when I couldn’t sleep at 4 am I had planned on getting Jaxon up and going for a drive to get some sun rise shots somewhere. But because it had rained the day before and it’s still hot as hell here, the fog was so thick you could barely see three feet in front of you.

I thought about it for an hour or two. On some of our morning drives to Brisbane the fog lifting through the hill’s with the sunrise has been one of the most beautiful things I’ve ever seen. But it really didn’t look like we were going to get a sunrise with the fog, because it was overcast. So we stayed home today.

But come this afternoon I wanted to get out and take photo’s. Of anything. It just so happened a storm was rolling in and we have some of the most awesome storm’s on the planet here.

That could be an exaggeration, but they’re still worth a look in.

I went for a drive out to the towns look-out. Which was closed.

That’s probably a good thing since it’s a metal tower and there was lightening about. I wasn’t alone there. Some other guy was there with his own camera, standing on top of his car doing exactly what I was trying to do. Get storm shots.

It was hot and muggy and I was sweating my ass off. Standing there taking photo’s, I heard the storm rumble in up the street.It was like a steam train thundering by.

One second I was hot and bothered and the next the wind that hit me was freezing cold and the wind was knocking me over. I jumped back in the car and started home, while the other guy stayed right where he was for the mother load of photo’s.