Last night a sudden brief but blindingly bright and fleeting light illuminated the sky from behind us. I peered out of the window. There was nothing to see. Some while later I decided to see if the day’s storm clouds had cleared the night skies for some more experimental low light photography.
I then discovered what the source of the earlier light was. An incredible light performance was taking place several miles to the East.
I realised that in all my years making photographs that I had never taken lightning strikes. As always, new experiments take some getting used to and the incredibly long bulb exposures used to capture the unpredictable sheeting took an age to write to disc so several other opportunities went by in a flash.
Perversely, I could have made more images using film.