TITLE: White Lightning

During a thunderstorm across a north Idaho pasture a horse reacts instantly to a close lightning strike.

AUTHOR: Brian Plonka (United States)

Brian Plonka is a photojournalist and filmmaker based in north Idaho, USA

He was named International Newspaper Photographer of the Year of the 59th Annual Pictures of the Year International (POYi) Competition, one of the world's largest and most prestigious photojournalism contests, sponsored by the Missouri School of Journalism.

He has worked at 11 different newspapers in a 30-year career winning more than 900 individual citations in photography and editing.

After leaving the newspaper business he is a freelance photographer and filmmaker.

His one-minute fictional films have been selected and screened at film festivals worldwide.