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The location is the Valensole Plateau of France. It has been a lifelong dream of mine to capture an incredible photo of the lavender fields of France when they are at their peak of bloom. And for this photo I was anticipating capturing a beautiful sunset. But when I was driving towards the lavender fields, I became stuck in an intense and powerful rainstorm. And I thought that the photoshoot was going to be ruined. But I kept going, and the rain stopped as I arrived at this location. And the sky was very dark, stormy, and angry. I was disappointed, because I didn't have the sunset I was looking for. And then lightning started to strike the ground in the distance. And I changed the focus of my photoshoot to try and capture the lightning. I started taking repetitive 5 second long exposures over and over again. I took hundreds of them. And finally the lightning struck on both sides of this lone tree. It was the most incredible opportunity and probably the only time in my life that I will...

Tim Shields is a master photographer in fine art, landscape photography coach and eCommerce entrepreneur from White Rock, British Columbia, Canada. Tim's passion for photography began at an early age. He bought his first DSLR film camera at age 13 and began shooting action photos and developing film in a home made darkroom. His photography evolved into landscape photos because it connected with his love for hiking, skiing and camping in the mountains. His photography style specializes in landscape, travel and outdoors. Tim's journey through the complicated process of mastering photography has not been an easy one. He is self taught, but has been guided and motivated through the learning process by many outstanding...