May 2024

TEXARKANA MAGAZINE

OVERALL WINNER (ON THE COVER) Night Photography Events, objects, locales, peoples, or activities in the Texarkana area that convey a sense of place after dark.

NAME Eric Ethridge AGE 40 DAY JOB Media Manager, City of Texarkana, Arkansas CAMERA Panasonic GH6

“Lightning Across Two States” by Eric Ethridge

INSPIRATION My wife and I were returning home from a friend’s house during a spectacular lightning storm without any rain or wind. I decided to go downtown (about 20 minutes from our current location) and see if I could capture lightning in the background of the post office. I had photographed this same composition many times before with ominous clouds but never with lightning. The lightning was so frequent that it took less than three minutes of shooting on time-lapse to capture this specific shot. I got several other lightning bolts in other photos of the sequence, but this one was my favorite because it “crawled” across the state line.

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