Here are some lovely evening and night shots. The rainbow was taken in the early evening, just before sunset (the other terminus of the rainbow was 40 degrees to the left and out of the camera's field of view). All the other shots were taken after dark with either 3 or 5 second exposures. To get the lightning shots I had to put the camera in continuous shooting mode and hold the shutter release down. I managed to get two good shots over a period of 10 minutes and several hundred shots (high capacity flash cards are nice!).

The more obvious lightning shot was taken with a 3 second exposure and even though it doesn't look like it it was a late evening shot, after sunset (to the naked eye the hills would be barely visible). The second lightning shot is the one showing the ham antenna tower (owned by Bill Avery, K6GNX at his home in Sparks Nevada). This was a 5 second exposure taken in the dead of night. The lightning is going from cloud to cloud but the exposure time caused almost near saturation of the sky when the lightning struck. If you look carefully just to the right of the tower, in the middle of the shot, you can actually see the lightning itself.

The next shot shows the city of Reno taken from sparks, with a window reflection off to the right. This was a 5 second exposure. The next shot was a 5 second shot taken of a house on a golf course in Incline Village, Lake Tahoe, in the dead of night. The only illumination is from area lightning. The next shot was taken straight up with the camera pointing at part of the big dipper. I wanted to see what kind of resolution I could get of the stars. The last shot showing two bright stars is actually a shot of Jupiter and Venus. A friend of mine swears that you can see moon shadows if you blow the image all the way up in gimp.