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St. Elmo's fire
St. Elmo's fire
Archival Inkjet Print
24"x36"
2023

The curious banding seen in this image, made at 14,000 feet during an electrical event, is a charged plasma field made visible as it arced through ice axe, climbing hardware, and my DSLR in the moment this image was made -- St. Elmo's Fire made visible in daylight hours on my camera's sensor. Which, amazingly, was not damaged by this phenomenon.