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Portrait of an Upper Midwest Storm

Thunder echoed as the explosive sounds caromed on each other. Menacing nimbus clouds blackened the skies in part, illuminated by the blindingly white hot light of hopscotching lightning bolts. In the western horizons, over Minneapolis and western suburbs, evanescing filigreed columns of rain can be seen clearly against the grayer clouds behind. With an appalling rapidity, the rain arrived over Saint Paul, pouring in sheets, only to move as fast on to Eastern parts and Wisconsin. To the North, as seen in this photograph, the sun breached the erstwhile clouds blackness to claim a corner of the sky, painting it in scarlet hue.

There is beauty in this pugilato of nature’s forces in conflict. It was my intent to capture this moment of the ever changing tableaus we are regaled with by Mother Nature.

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Uploaded on July 14, 2022
Taken on July 12, 2022