Hah, missed me, evil Emperor Ming!
Hail and lightning here yesterday afternoon as almost an inch of rain fell in under an hour. This is a lot for London and I think that sheet lightning (cloud to cloud) is more common in the UK so it was rather thrilling to watch the occasional spike of forked lightning like this one which I think came to earth in the hospital just a few hundred yards away (certainly the thunder was right behind it, almost no elephants at all). What I need for my next attempt at lightning photography is an open window as the one this one was shot through was more like a waterfall than a window which doesn’t do much for sharp photographs. The small globes of light are illuminated raindrops, similar to those you’ll see when using a flash gun in the rain.
Wow.
I love lightning. What a dramatic scene.
great shot! lightning is fascinating (provided a person is a mile away or so 🙂
Great shot! I like the raindrop effect.
Wow! This goes to explain why we got a call from Miss Ham yesterday afternoon, as we were sunning ourselves in Tenterden…..
Terrific photo! Relatives had a Newfoundland dog that always hid under a bed and quaked when there was thunder and lightning whilst their cat sat on the windowsill to watch it.