Please give everyone down there a break. I'll buy you a pack of socks from BJ's! Cool pic too.
love, sis

Thanks Sis!

Maybe I should just go barefoot for awhile. I definitely don't want to put the entire country through another cycle of wash (the rain) followed by a tumble dry (the earthquake)!

Hey! (Hey Vicki!!!)
So Rob...how the hell did you snap that picture at the exact moment of that lightening strike? And what were you doing on the roof with your camera in a thunder storm? You getting struck is one thing...but your camera????

And...one more thing...6.8 earthquake? Sorry bud, that is a little more than rocking and rolling. Although there is precious little to photograph during an earthquake...please get out of your concrete apartment with anything above 5!!! And, yes, the camera too! :-)

Susan,

How did I capture the lightening strike? Please! I'm a professional photojournalist, it's what I do.

(OK, that... and I was very, very, very lucky. Plus, you'll never see the other 200 shots where I got nothing but gray sky. Ooops, I might have admitted too much there. Let's just stick with the "professional" story, ok?)

In all seriousness... it was a difficult shot. Taking photos of lightning at night is much easier, you can just leave the shutter open as long as like. Photos of daytime lightning (the one above happened around noon) depend an awful lot on guessing and luck.

Which would explain (especially to my neighbors, who might hopefully be reading this) why I was jumping around on my roof shouting "whoo-hoo, whoo-hoo" in the middle of a thunderstorm.

And yes, the earthquake was a 6.8, but it was a deep one with its epicenter in the Pacific ocean. So the real effects were quite mild. In fact I was more terrified reading the news articles about the earthquake than living through the earthquake itself!

Well...nicely done with the photo! And, I am sure that your neighbor was probably too engrossed in his telephone to notice the dancing on the roof. Whew. Glad to know the earthquake was not so serious...you are right. Reading about it was a little scary!
Never a dull moment in Guate!

Canche, would mind sending me your domicilio, I will forward that to the Insivuhme and immigration. Maybe, once and for all, we can have great weather in the summer if immigration decides to act on it, or predictable wearther forecasts if Insivuhme decides to follow up on the lead. ;-)

Interesting enough, I was talking about the weather, the rainy season and had a photo with similiar ingridients: dark clouds, rooftop, light phenomena in the sky, but for sure, your photo is one in 200 (at least). Too bad I did not see your entry until today, otherwise I would have linked it.

One more thing, it looks like your trackbacks are not working either. I have linked a few of your entries, but you don't seem to receive the trackback.

PS. I forgot to give you the link to my weather photo.

http://antiguadailyphoto.com/2007/06/16/with-the-rainy-season-comes-the-rainbow-season/

Hey Rudy!

No need to call "la migra"... I'm voluntarily leaving the country for a while. I'll be spending a few weeks in New York visiting with my family (and trying to keep up with my nephews and niece!")

So if the weather should suddenly improve and the seismological threats subside after this Thursday, you'll know that my washing was to blame.

I'll let you know when I'm due back in Guate so that you can send the lynch mob!

Changing the subject, fairly radically, your photo of the Antigua rainbow is beautiful! I like how the arrow of the street lamp points right to it... as if to say "this way to the pot of gold!"

Finally, as for the trackbacks, unfortunately I have to disable them fairly soon after posting. I've been getting a lot of spam lately.

Thanks for your comments!