The Perfect Composition
Photo: Joel Sartore
From the images that we’ve seen so far, and from what most of us have seen in real life, lightning has always seemed to strike down from the sky. Well, in Wyoming’s Red Desert, photographer Joel Sartore managed to capture something amazing. The composition of the entire image couldn’t be better timed with the unusual horizontal bolt of lighting centered almost exactly above the plateau in the center of the foreground. As if that isn’t impressive enough, the clouds in the sky don’t seem thick enough to create lighting, yet the lightning bolt seems to come out of nowhere. The entire image seems almost too perfect and unlikely, yet exemplifies the beauty and mysticism of nature.
