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"Get Me Some Weather Art"

Inquirer staff photographer Michael Perez perfectly captured the end of the summer's first heat wave. Click on his photo to see a slide show of more weather photos by Inquirer photographers over the past four days.
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Perez was responding to his instincts a news photographer. Even though he was working the night shift, seated at a computer filling in as the sports photo editor, when the storm hit he ran outside and photographed the lightning strikes from our parking garage. Here's one that "got away." The bolt was so hot it was completely overexposed.

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WOW, great shot. That was an amazing light show last night.

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Tom Gralish is a general assignment photographer at The Inquirer, concentrating on local news and self-generated feature photos. He has been at the paper since 1983, photographing everything from revolution in the Philippines to George W. Bush’s road to the White House to his Pulitzer Prize-winning photo essay of homeless people in the city.

For his photo essay on Philadelphia’s homeless, he was awarded both the Pulitzer Prize and the Robert F. Kennedy Award. During the first Gulf War, he was the photo editor in Saudi Arabia for all newspaper photographers embedded with U.S. military units.

His weekly column, "Scene on the Street," takes a look at Philadelphia's urban landscape.


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