The black and white cast of this Monochrome category-winning weather photograph makes it all the more stark – it was taken as a storm rolled right past the photographer's house in Middleton, South Australia. He said: "I have never been so close to lightning strikes. The thunder rolled like undulating galvanised steel sheets. This is a single frame capturing the ferocity of the downpour and the energy released from the lightning strikes."

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