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Persephone's Conception

Persephone's Conception
by Connor Healey


A lightning bolt suddenly rips through the sky, hammering a burning wheat field near Cimarron, Kansas, after an earlier strike had ignited the blaze. The title of the photo symbolically references Persephone, daughter of Zeus, the god of thunder and storms, and Demeter, the goddess of harvest and agriculture—two central deities in ancient Greek mythology.