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Lightning is one of the most difficult subjects to photograph. Here are a few electrifying lightning photographs from around the globe.
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A lightning bolt is seen over an apartment in Toronto on Wednesday Aug. 24, 2011. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Aaron Vincent Elkaim)
Lightning and a forming rainbow are seen over the state agency buildings at the Empire State Plaza in Albany, N.Y., on Wednesday, June 8, 2011. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)
Volcanic lightning is seen over the Puyehue volcano, over 500 miles south of Santiago, Chile, Sunday June 5, 2011. Authorities have evacuated about 600 people in the nearby area. The volcano was calm on Sunday, one day after raining down ash and forcing thousands to flee, although the cloud of soot it had belched out still darkened skies as far away as Argentina. (AP Photo/Francisco Negroni, AgenciaUno)
Lightning hits near NASA's Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) as a storm passes by the Kennedy Space Center, on March 31, 2011 in Cape Canaveral, Florida. On April 19th the Space Shuttle Endeavour is scheduled to make its final flight to the International Space Station before being retired. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)
A rainbow is seen in the sky as lightning strikes after a rainstorm in Haikou, Hainan province, May 13, 2012. Picture taken May 13, 2012. REUTERS/China Daily
Lightning is seen during a storm under the Memorial Center in Potocari the night before a mass burial, near Srebrenica July 10, 2012. The bodies of 520 recently identified victims of the Srebrenica massacre will be buried on July 11, the anniversary of the massacre when Bosnian Serb forces commanded by Ratko Mladic slaughtered 8,000 Muslim men and boys and buried them in mass graves, in Europe's worst massacre since World War Two. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic
Lightning is seen in the sky above the Christopher Columbus monument at Madrid's Colon Square July 26, 2012. REUTERS/Juan Medina
Lightning strikes outside Lake Havasu City, Arizona as monsoon moisture continues to invades the Mojave deserts area July 30, 2012. Photo taken July 30, 2012. REUTERS/Gene Blevins
Lightning is seen above buildings during a storm in central Shanghai August 15, 2012. REUTERS/Aly Song