If there is something that I enjoy more then portrait and wedding photography it would be my love for storm chasing and lightning photography. I can still remember the first lightning bolt on film in 1995 and from there I shot off like a rocket to shoot photos anytime lightning was around. My love for weather started when I was very young and the camera was the missing part of the puzzle that tied stormchasing in my life. I do a lot of freelance work for CNN and The Weather Channel as well as others with severe weather and when you get time you can check my other site out for video and photos of Hampton Roads worst weather at www.valightning.com . One of my goals at the first of the year was to get some good lightning in front of the Virginia Beach Town Center and on August 21, 2007 I got a lightning storm that produced some of the very best lightning that I have seen since I started in 1995. I also shot video in HD with a Sony FX1 and the video is just jaw dropping. Here are a few of the photos I shot that night…