Weather comes in fits and starts in Oklahoma. Sometimes we face drought. Other times, crippling heat. Winter can bring hot, dry wildfire conditions, or it can crush us with single-digit cold.

This spring, Oklahoma was among the states in the south that experienced particularly severe weather, including a tornado that did serious damage to a town where I once lived and worked, Shawnee.

With the sky turbulent and active, it was inviting me to try to photograph it. Lightning was particularly prevalent on April 19 and May 11. On both occasions, I decided to make numerous frames of the sky, and blend them together from Adobe Photoshop layers. This idea was extra-appealing since my work laptop computer was recently upgraded, and included the continuously-updated version of all of Adobe’s editing products.