National Geographic: Streaking from a sky as red as the earth, lightning strikes the famous dome-shaped, sandstone monolith Uluru, also known as Ayers Rock, in Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park, Australia. I had heard a lot about how beautiful Uluru should look when it rains, writes Christoph Schaarschmidt, who captured this image. But I never believed that I would see it with my own eyes because the Red Centre of Australia is a very arid area.