Lightning! Real lightning this time, unlike Modern Lightning, which isn’t so real. Look at this up close. I didn’t know lightning looked so jagged, till I caught it on film (err, a memory card).
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), so I shot this through the screen window. You can see the pattern of the window on the sky, though it’s out of focus. The blurred spots may have been water drops on the window. I snapped fifty photos, and was lucky enough to get this one as the lightning struck. I put some of my tips …
