Lightning photography begins with a lot of waiting and ends in a fraction of a second. The storm builds slowly, the light drops, and then one flash changes the whole scene. What makes these photographs interesting is not only the bolt itself, but everything around it: rooftops, water, wet streets, clouds, and city lights suddenly rearranged by the strike. No two frames arrive in quite the same way, and that uncertainty is part of the appeal. The image is never only about the lightning. It is about what the lightning does to the world for one brief moment.
