What you are looking at is my "personal thunderstorm", which I called Olaf after the snowman character in Frozen. Olaf formed from a small inconspicuous cloud two hours before sunset right above the White Pocket Monolith. Most importantly, Olaf was a stationary storm that settled down exactly where I would ask him to. The second key ingredient was the absence of wind and the presence of water that filled up empty puddles at White Pocket in late June. Olaf kept illuminating the sandstone playground for hours and well into the night. When it got too dark to shoot anything but lightning bolts, I put the lens cap on, bowed, and thanked Nature for this rare and memorable opportunity.
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