The path they make in doing so forms the channel we see during a flash of lightning. A file photo of a lightning bolt streaking across clouds in Nebraska. Lightning is produced when an imbalance ...

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It's not easy to photograph ... lightning tropes. Like, "Lightning never strikes twice in the same place"? "So, it absolutely does," he said. "And often what will happen is a single lightning ...

Some years, I photographed dozens of lightning flashes; in one year, I snapped none, even after multiple tries. With lightning photography, I’ve learned it’s feast or famine. My goal from the ...