This image is the result of a long quest. It took 2 years and more than
twenty outings, totaling more than a thousand miles; though each journey
was to the same place. The image was inspired by a chance bolt of
lightning that killed a tree, thus exposing its bare limbs during the
summer when it would otherwise have been covered in foliage. It is the
essence of being in the right place at the right time, with your camera
pointed in precisely the right direction, correctly focused and with the
proper aperture for the rare spider lightning that only lasted about 100
milliseconds. The remarkable symmetry of tree and lightning branches,
and all that took place to capture it, makes this my favorite photo of
the 1998 storm season.