In mid-September, an active lightning storm passed over Marblehead shortly after sunset.  I had setup my longest lens inside the car due to the frequent bolts of lightning shining in the night sky and aimed at Chandler Hovey Park hoping for the best while mashing on the shutter button (well, the remote button to minimize shake…).

As it happened, I lucked out and caught not one but two separate bolts.  I shared the second capture as soon as I came home but this was the first bolt that appeared on my screen.  The exposure on this one was a bit overexposed but actually helped bring out the effect of the bright flash of lightning in turning the sky a purplish hue.

As the saying goes, ‘fortune favors the prepared’ and never more so than when lightning strikes twice in Marblehead.