Sublime

I read Edmund Burke's A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful a long time ago and really loved it. One of things I remember from it was that the sublime was a notion which caused something like dread in the person, but which was also a powerful aesthetic experience that simultaneously drew the person to the object itself. These photos of Hurricane Ivan from 230 miles above sea level (taken from the International Space Station) are a good example of "the sublime" I think. Dreadful, terrible and beautiful at the same time.