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Storms
Creation Close-ups, September 2025
Enjoy our readers’ photo submissions from the July issue!
Focus Illustrated, September 2025
Enjoy this stunning photo and learn how to take your own!
Creation Close-ups, August 2025
Enjoy our readers’ photo submissions from the July issue!
To Capture Lightning
Ahh, lightning! An in-cloud starburst streak! Had I finally uncovered the secret to those photos I so admired?
A Storm-lover’s Dream…or Nightmare
I stepped outside to look at the clouds again. They had changed shockingly fast to a sickening yellowish muddy-orange color, and were now almost directly overhead, with the wind from the east and twice as strong as before.
Mailbox, April 2025
110 Things to See With a Telescope. Thundersnows. Read the April letters to the editor.
Favorite Focus, July 2024
View the full issue in the Magazine Archive Photo © Joy Penner. West Texas storm. Photos © Anna Schmitt. Northern lights. Photo © Robert Frazer. Gray squirrel. Photo © Nathan Leinbach. Barred Owl....
Let’s Take a Hike, February 2024: Lightning
View the full issue in the Magazine Archive My March Contest Lenspiration Second Place Winner March in Southern Africa marks the beginning of autumn. This is the rainy season in the eastern part....
End of the Trail, September 2023: Lightning
Learn how this photo of lightning over the Shenandoah Valley, Virginia, was taken in the September Study Guide, "The Photo Focus." Photo © Adrian Shank.
Anatomy of a Thunderstorm
Lighting for Lightning
Lightning flickered in the west. Invisible waves of wind rocked the treetops. Would it rain? The dry ground could use it.“If there is a storm tonight, I might leave when it is over and go to Salt...
The Bird in the Thunderstorm
Black-capped Chickadee and lightning. It was dark and very late at night. The little feathered chickadee had long since fluffed his feathers and gone to sleep. But a storm was coming. The little...
