You should not be too hard on yourself. Coming from the other side of the planet to do research and at least seeing some storms in the rural area is at least a taste!. Nice pic of the cloud - looks like luminescence you've got and well done!
I made a terrible mistake after work and did not go with my gut instinct to stay in town after seeing convection form along the coast at Nightcliff at 11:30pm- which for other members is only about 10mins drive from Darwin - I headed to Nightcliff but it did not produce anything and without any aids to visually guide me I decided to go home...but a storm brewed to the west so I headed near my home and set up - the storm was very hard to pick even with city lights illuminating the cloud base. It was active, but only every 3 minutes. I managed 3 CG shots but they were rubbish so I deleted them, but another set of storms formed adjacent Darwin and I flew into town to get some shots - you guessed it - viewed massive CG's - some triple strikes under the cloud base and by the time I got back to town it was moving out to sea quickly.
I really messed up big time with decision making and it cost me what I know would have been incredible CG shots over the coast - they were very close to shore and running through the towers to the sea from what I viewed driving in....I'm pretty annoyed people as you'd expect given I should never, ever do that again! I hate missing night time lightning - it's what I stay up late for!
But in a positive way it's taught me another thing about chasing - well, 'chasing' as in a photographic opportunity per se and one should always go with what one knows, not with what one 'thinks' is the best option.
The radar loop is here - I'm located 21km south of all of it and burning rubber to get back into town!
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Berrimah radar loop
