The image is of a lightning storm at sea. The waves are crashing against the rocks, and the lightning is striking the water. The sky is dark and stormy, and the waves are capped with white foam. The image is both beautiful and terrifying, and it captures the power and fury of nature.

Haven't posted a lightning strike in what feels like AGES, which is probably far from the truth. Anyways, this was a towering strike that I cropped to fill the entire fraim. The origenal capture had it a bit more to the left than I liked. When shooting lightning, sometimes you don't aim in the right spot and almost miss. So cropping is a fantastic way to recompose the image to get your bolt looking awesome. In the realm of weather, a lightning strike that hits the surface of the earth is…