Helical Inertia

Taken from the Bald Hill Opal Fields, Lightning Ridge, N.S.W. on the 23.3.13 at 10:25pm EDST

After a decent lull weather-wise it was very nice to see a storm crop up from a fairly stable trough moving across the Eastern states of Australia. I shot out as fast as I could, met up with good friends who were already shooting and set up next to them to enjoy the show.

Lightning activity was furious and I barely recall a second where this thing wasn't flashing away out there. Structure was very stable and highly organised in both these cells (two separate updrafts here only joined by the anvil) also having the nice inflow band evident as the dark cloud band at the lower area of the photo. Very suspicious looking Wall Cloud hidden under there too!

A little tricky to balance this out at times due to a very bright Moon overhead.
It remained quite distant from town. At this stage it was about 80 Kilometres to the South East and rapidly moving away.

EXIF:
Canon 5D MkIII
Canon 16-35mm f/2.8L II USM
20sec.
f/3.2
ISO200
35mm @ Infinity Focus