As an expert photographer, I’ve seen a number of gorgeous pictures – however there’s one picture specifically that stopped me in my tracks this week: a “fire-breathing dragon of clouds.”
What retains drawing me again to Maximilien Lamy’s {photograph} taken alongside the shore of France’s Lake Lacanau isn’t simply the dramatic cloud rising off the Gironde wildfire, however the beachgoers calmly sitting within the sand, enjoyable underneath an umbrella.
The beachgoers are a dramatic distinction to the disaster unfolding within the distance. The eerie distinction feels as if it carries a message, heavy with the fact that with the wildfires raging since mid-July, life continues amid the state of emergency. The distinction additionally speaks to the reason for the wildfires because the beachgoers cool off amid file temperatures.
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This week, wildfires brought about France’s first pyrocumulonimbus cloud – wildfire clouds which are scorching sufficient to trigger their very own thunderstorm. NASA describes the rare weather phenomenon as a “fire-breathing dragon of clouds.”
According to the {photograph}’s metadata, the picture was taken with a Huawei smartphone, a reminder that the best composition can create a strong picture no matter what gear was used.
Lamy’s {photograph} might have stopped me in my tracks, however that’s not the one unimaginable picture that I’ve seen coming from photojournalists this week.
Sheltering at a metro station in Kyiv
When I first saw this image by Oleksii Flippov, I had to look closer to grasp what I was really looking at: people taking shelter in a metro station during a missile strike in Kyiv, Ukraine.
The unusual angle taken from the top of an escalator both draws my eye deeper into the photograph and illustrates just how crowded the station was, as the floor of the station is so full there’s even someone resting at the very bottom of the escalator itself.
The photograph, taken on July 30, is a sobering reminder of the continuing conflict in Ukraine.
A funeral from a dramatic angle
The circular shape and architecture in this photograph by Getty’s Kenny Holston immediately drew my eye to the funeral unfolding in the center of the frame. The image comes from the funeral of late US Senator Lindsey Graham on July 28.
The photograph uses the iconic architecture of the Rotunda in the US Capitol to draw the eye to the flag-draped coffin in the center of the frame. Holston used the Nikon Z9 and the Nikon Z 14-24mm f/2.8 S ultra-wide to fit the scene and architecture into the frame.
A dramatic drone shot of a wildfire’s aftermath
This drone shot by Oscar Del Pozo shows the reality of what residents face after a wildfire. In the photo taken on a farm west of Madrid, Spain, goats dot the scorched earth after a wildfire went through the farm.
The shot was taken with a DJI drone. The unusual angle draws attention to not just the goats but the animals’ shadows. Another reason that I find the image striking is that the goats seem to match the color palette of the scorched earth.
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