When you take a seaside break, even if it's just one night to get away from home and to see the Sculpture By The Sea exhibit the following morning, you really don't want to see storm clouds and rain. And copious quantities of lightning.

Or maybe you do if you're a photographer, provided that the lightning doesn’t seem to be tied to your shutter release in such a way that it always flashes immediately after you've finished pressing it, never during. (OK, there was ONE shot with the fading trail of a lightning bolt. And this was despite using the multi-exposure mode.)

Still, nature provided some degree of compensation after the storm began to clear. This is not a Photoshop effect, this is beams of light from the sun in the west behind me shooting across to land on the sea beyond. The hotel itself and the bulk of Coogee Beach to the left of frame is still in shadow, but gaps in the cloud allow the lighting up of the headlands in that direction.

One other change that I made with this download was to have Adobe Bridge change Olympus' rather cryptic file naming convention (I do get it, I just don't find it user-friendly especially the use of hexadecimal codings for the month) to one of YYYYMMDD_SequenceNo. The theory was twofold; first it would automatically give me the timestamp that I append to the front of my PADs anyway, and secondly it would, in theory, help me keep track of the number of shots that the Olympus has taken for service and maintenance purposes. (Though since it's been in service for a few months already that boat has already sailed. Still, it'll give me some idea.) One thing that I had forgotten is that Bridge uploads the most recent images on a card first so it I have a number of days' shooting on there at the time of upload, the sequence numbers will be in reverse order. In the unlikely event that anyone spots that no, I'm not going backwards in time. (Much as I'd like to, to the day before the last big Powerball draw.)