Purple Haze
Photo: Mike Jones
Taken in the Grand Cayman Islands, this explosion of bright purple light looks like some kind of storm you might see in outer space. The power of the lightning behind the dense clouds shows just how high the lightning originates as well as the formation of the clouds, which is more vertical than spread out across the sky. This picture demonstrates the strength of lightning and its ability to illuminate an otherwise completely dark sky, even when hidden behind storm clouds. Without the clouds, the lightning may have very well been too bright to capture on a camera or even blinding to look at.
