Ramah is a tiny little town on HWY 53 southwest of Grants, New Mexico. In and of itself, it is not a place worth traveling too but it is on the way to some more noteworthy destinations such as the Wild Spirit Wolf Sanctuary, El Morro National Monument and the Bandera Ice Cave.
     Ramah is part of the Navajo Nation and that means you had better read the signs. If the sign says that the speed limit is 20mph (and the signs do say that), it is safe to assume they're not messing around, especially if you "ain't from around here". Additionally, if the sign says "No Trespassing", it is not a suggestion and, with the police station, courthouse and jail all less than half a mile away, I highly recommend shooting from the safe-side of the fence.
​     This abandoned farm house is at the edge of town and behind a barbed wire fence with a locked gate. Word to the wise: don't climb through the fence.
​     All photos shot with a Motorola MotoX4 and edited with Snapseed.

The above time lapse video was shot with a Canon EOS 80d and Canon 17mm-40mm f4 L lens on February 5, 2019 from my back yard in Los Lunas, New Mexico. While the 80d was busy shooting the time lapse, I shot the still photos with my iPhone SE.

The above video was shot on February 4, 2019 from my backyard in Los Lunas, New Mexico using a Canon EOS 80D with Canon 17mm-40mm f4 L lens. The camera ran for approximately 2.5 hours with a frame rate of 3 seconds. Los Lunas Mountain is visible at the bottom of the frame.

While my 80D was busy shooting video, I shot the other still photos with my iPhone SE. 

You may not realize that almost all of the photos on this blog are shot with an iPhone. There are a few exceptions (like the previous lightning post say for instance) but, by and large, these are iPhone photos. I have a real camera and I know how to use it but it's just so bulky and time consuming to lug it around and transfer the images from device to device that I have made it my mission to do as much as possible with the camera that fits in my pocket, the iPhone.

On a side note, way back in the day I remember saying "My camera doesn't make phone calls, why do I need my phone to take pictures?!?!" Ha...ha...oh.., I kill me. Famous last words and all.

Anyway, I found a lightning trigger app for the iPhone. Skeptical peeps said it would never work, that no such thing could exist.

Well, I would like to demonstrate that such a thing could exist and, not only that, but it works too!

All of the lightning photos in this post were shot with the iLightningCam2 app. It's not perfect, sometimes it doesn't fire, but when it works it works pretty well!

I'm not much of a storm chaser, unless there's no actual chasing involved. All of these photos were shot from my yard (or in one instance, through my living room window) with a Canon EOS 80d.

The following images are not evidence of extraterrestrial life but rather my husband, Johnpaul Vincent, demonstrating his mad skillz with the lightsaber.
​But seriously, he used to own a martial arts school and taught sword fighting so he does in fact have mad skillz.