Lightning, Iran
Photograph by AmirAli Sharifi, My Shot
After three years I went to visit my family in Iran. We traveled to the city of Mahmood Abad in the north of Iran and had the most amazing time together. One night as I was walking on the shore of the Caspian Sea with my sister, I saw distant lightning. I ran to the hotel, grabbed my camera and tripod, and came back. I took many long exposures, but it was only in the second shot that I captured the biggest, most beautiful, and the last lightning of that night.

http://nationalgeographicmagazine.tumblr.com/post/29622964711/lightning-iran-photograph-by-amirali-sharifi-my

Also see BBC feature: http://www.bbc.co.uk/persian/world/2012/12/121227_l93_pics_photography_ng.shtml