Im releasing 1,000 unique 1 of 1 photography NFTs from my travels across all seven continents, each with its own story as part of a PROOF Collective Official collaboration. Minting December 19.

TREY RATCLIFF: 1K1K PROJECT

I love this area of China and right upon arrival, there was a huge storm hitting. So exciting! I love a good storm. It was probably ill-advised, but my friend Tom (MySpace Tom) and I climbed up a mountain to get some photos. We were underneath the shade of an old pagoda, which kept us from getting wet... it was perfect conditions for storm shooting, really!

This is the result of taking about 100 photos while waiting to get lucky with the lightning. It's honestly just a guessing game to know when it will strike. I had the shutter open for 1.3 seconds with each shot so I might be able to capture the whole thing. MOST cool lightning shots you see are fake or a composition of several different lightning shots. I don't do that sort of thing... I never add stuff to my photos. Sure, there is post-processing, but I don't add in elements that I didn't see at that particular moment. If anything, I am a reductionist and remove things from a photo that I find unnecessary or distracting.

Guilin, China