Freedom’s Fire – The Statue of Liberty is silhouetted against the ball of the sun over New Jersey with smoke from wildfires in Oregon turning the horizon red. Seven fires in the western state burned over 450,000 acres, with winds creating a cloud seen from space across the United States.

I was able to take this photograph from my apartment in Park Slope, Brooklyn. I did not expect the lineup of the sun and statue to be so perfect, but sometimes the universe aligns just for us.