Image © Marc Sellés Llimós, shared with permission
Back in June, photographed multiple instances of illumination in a single nighttime sky. From the village of Manlleu, Osona, where he lives and works, Sellés Llimós captured a fierce thunderstorm as it raged on the other side of the mountain in Carcassonne, France. The 380-image composite shows a brilliant tangle of lightning below sweeping star trails, produced with a slow, six-minute exposure. According to NASA, which featured the work as one of its , the trails reflect the Earth’s daily rotation around its axis, and the extent of their curvatures represents the distance from the north pole.
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