Mh1$AgThS2 A Saskatchewan wheat field captured in wide-angle closeup at the moment lightning strikes the horizon. Individual wheat stalks appear in hyper-detailed golden perfection, their heads heavy with grain and illuminated from within by the storm's electric blue light. The approaching thunderhead towers in the background like a mountain of vapor, its interior structure revealed through lightning flashes that turn cloud chambers into caverns of purple, charcoal, and electric white. The prairie sky dominates two-thirds of the composition, its impossible vastness emphasized by the contrast between golden earth and tempestuous heaven. A single red-winged blackbird clings to a wheat stalk in the foreground, its scarlet epaulets vivid against the storm-darkened landscape. The entire composition captures the dramatic energy of prairie storms, where the meeting of earth and sky creates natural theater on an epic scale. Thin border of wheat stalks bending in wind patterns on a epic border background.