It's always good to see Singapore represented in global publications, and that's exactly what photographer Darren Soh did when he made an appearance on BBC this morning.

For those who aren't sure who Soh is, he is an accomplished photographer known for his incredible series, 50 in SG50, where he took 50 pictures that perfectly captured 2015.

Now, the 40 year old is also the photographer who took, and created, this breathtaking composite image of a sky full of lightning.

This is the man himself on BBC this morning.

Here's the transcript from his interview with the BBC, and we will have to make do with that, since BBC cannot currently be streamed from Singapore.

For years I've been actually trying to make this image that I had in my head. So i took my equipment and went to a vantage point that I knew would offer me a clear view of the impending storm because i knew where the storm was coming from.

So i set up a camera with my tripod, and basically for a good hour i just kept on taking photos nonstop, what i did after that was to select, out of the 100 odd images that I made, 12 that had the most lightning activity recorded in the frame and put them together in post production, in order to show the amount of lightning that happened within that time frame.

Human beings have this thing with lightning, it scares them yet at the same time it can be very inspiring and very beautiful, I've seen that word, beautiful, used many many times in all the comments on the photo.

It's really not rocket science but it's what i had envisioned to try and bring out in a country where the occurrence of lightning is so high, so last night i kinda got lucky.

These were the 12 photos that he combined to make the image.

He delved into the technical specifics even further in a Facebook post.

For those of you who have been asking, the photos were made on the Sony a7rII camera which had a Canon 17mm TSE (tilt shift) lens mounted on it and the setup was on a tripod throughout. Exposures varied between 15-30 secs.

And for those who are wondering just how quickly BBC contacted him, here's a quick timeline.

Soh published his post on May 22 at 10.04pm.

Within half a day, May 23 at 10.20am, BBC was all up in his business.

Kudos BBC on getting the interview scoop before even The Straits Times. This ang moh publication faster than lightning,

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Top image from Darren Soh's Facebook page.

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