TITLE: White Lightning

In my 5 square mile not so private anymore north Idaho, icons of this rural community are nevermore. Several white horses in two separate pastures to the north and to the west that I have photographed for over 15 years in some 67,347 frames during warm and cold, dark and light, calm and stormy weather.
The white horse in the pasture to the west photographed here reacts to a lightning bolt during a intense spring storm.

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.