About the Archive

Who shoots this, how an image is captured, and what drives it.

A workspace with storm photographs, contact sheets, and field notes from lightning captures

Why we started

Chasing storms across open country

We began documenting lightning and thunderstorms after realizing our best shots came from the same storms, the same moments of coordination. What started as shared field notes became something larger. The first collection went to twelve subscribers.

A photographer reviewing storm footage on screen during a thunder-charged evening

How an image gets made

Storm-chased first, edited second

Every photograph is taken on location and verified by someone who was there when the lightning struck. An image that cannot survive a second look at the raw file does not make the cut.

How we work

Three commitments we hold to

Only what we witnessed

Nothing gets shown unless one of us captured it in real time, in front of the dramatic sky.

Show the near-misses too

The shots where the timing was off, where the storm moved wrong—those stay in. They tell the real story.

Corrections are public

If we misjudge a storm's intensity or misidentify a formation, we fix it on the page with a note.

Twice monthly, nothing less

One full-length storm analysis and one short field capture, released the morning they go live.

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