Wow!

Photograph by Rolf Maeder

This brilliant photograph captures the moment when huge lightning bolts shot down from the wonderfully atmospheric sky into the Grand Canyon, one of the world's natural wonders. The landscape is spectacular, even more so illuminated by the lightning. This magnificent Canyon is thought to be 17 million years old and according to the National Park Service it averages at least 26,000 lightning strikes a year. It is 277 miles long and in parts up to 18 miles wide, hard to imagine just from a photograph. Picture yourself flying over it on a fine and sunny day, preferable I think to a stormy night. Our planet has some of the most amazing geography and thanks to photography, film and the internet not all of us need to travel to see these amazing sights.

                                                                                                              Tracey