This image depicts a nighttime urban landscape in Varna, Bulgaria, illuminated by a significant lightning strike during a thunderstorm

This image depicts a nighttime urban landscape in Varna, Bulgaria, illuminated by a significant lightning strike during a thunderstorm. The sky is dark and cloudy, displaying shades of deep indigo and purple, becoming significantly brighter, almost white and lavender, around the lightning. A prominent, multi-branched lightning bolt extends horizontally across the middle-right section of the sky, emanating from or interacting with dense storm clouds. Below the horizon line, the cityscape is visible, dominated by several dark, multi-story residential buildings. A large building on the far left shows multiple illuminated windows, as do other structures scattered across the mid-ground and right. A dense cluster of smaller residential buildings with varying rooflines is visible in the central mid-ground, some also showing interior lights. Dark tree canopies obscure parts of the immediate foreground. In the distant background, a faint silhouette of hills or mountains is discernible against the slightly lighter horizon. No individuals are visible.