GLOUCESTER DAILY TIMES POY 2014: PHOTOGRAPHER'S TAKE: I was heading back to Gloucester after having dinner with my wife Terry. I never leave home without my cameras. I've had dreams that a major news story breaks and I'm there,but I don't have a camera with me_so I always have one. Lighting is hard to capture,so as my wife drives down 128 north bound, I set my camera setting so i would have a fast enough shutter speed so i could shoot continuous frames as i watch in what direction the lightning is coming from. Using the dash board to my camera steady, we approch Manchester and started shooting burst modes, at about the time i heard a rumble in the sky, and them a large bolt of lightning strikes close to us and the ground, one saturday night on Sept 6,2014. Thats why this is my pick fot the Photo of the Year. DESI SMITH/Staff photo

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