Tricia Kubik won first place in the Snapshot Nebraska category of the ANR Amateur Photo Contest with this capture of what appears to be lightning striking a tractor. She was visiting with Bryce Wert on her back patio on the edge of Aurora in June when she saw lightning in the distance.
“I stood at my fence line and just snapped a few pictures in sequence and that was one of them,” she said of a perfectly-timed image which captured a bolt of lightning as it appears to strike Wert’s tractor. “That lightning looks like it’s right on top of his tractor, but actually it’s very far in the distance.”
Kubik used a cell phone, sharing that this is her first photo contest entry.
“First and only,” she said with a laugh. “I take pictures of my kids and grandkids. I thought it was a pretty cool picture. Bryce was up on our patio so he saw it and I’ve forwarded it to them. I have a feeling that he’ll probably blow that one up and put it in his house.”
See the rest of the category winning photos in the full article HERE.