Dear Jem,
In case you forget sometime in the near future, please let this note serve as a reminder to you. It is not a good idea to go out in the piss-pouring rain in nothing but your pyjamas and a pair of flimsy flip-flops to watch the lightning. Not only are your flip-flops soaked, but you’re likely to catch a cold.
Thank you for reading,
Jem
PS. Stop writing notes to yourself, you look insane.
Sanity aside, how cool is this?
That’s the first picture of lightning I’ve ever actually managed to take. I confess, I did in fact cheat and use the camera to take 30 second bursts of video (which is why it’s small and low quality), but we won’t tell anyone, will we?
05 Jul at 11:23 am
But you just told us. :P I’d feel quite special to be able to snap a photograph of lightning.
05 Jul at 11:48 am
Low quality aside, that’s a pretty nifty picture.
05 Jul at 12:12 pm
Wow, I’d be lucky to even SEE a bolt of lighning, let alone take a picture of it. When was the picture? I live somewhere near you (near W Mids, right?) and I recall a storm a few days ago :P It was so close when I heard the thunder I promptly got out of my chair and screamed in excitement/shock/fear of it being a scene from War of the Worlds :P
05 Jul at 1:07 pm
That was over rural Shrewsbury (Shrops.) last night, Tish :)
05 Jul at 1:19 pm
Haha! Good idea! The other day we wanted a pic of lightning, I told them that’s what they should’ve done. Awesome picture!
05 Jul at 1:31 pm
Wow, that’s shibby… We’re getting drowned over here in the rain too, stupid monsoon’s started early and’s apparently decided to dump every last drop of itself at my house, it’s ridiculous… At least the lightning here was amazing last night, made up for the fact that the rain canceled damn near every fireworks show here…. :(
05 Jul at 1:39 pm
@Frosty – oh, it didn’t last long. It’s absolutely horrid today, pushing 32-34 degrees C in some of the classrooms at work with no air con!
05 Jul at 1:58 pm
Must admit, that’s pretty awesome. I tend to just…snuggle under my blankets whenever it’s stormy. Toastier and comfier for me!
05 Jul at 3:23 pm
Definitely a cool picture. Before I even came here to check out your blog, I thought I’d go outside and try to get some lightning pictures, but this storm is moving more slowly than I thought.
05 Jul at 4:08 pm
what’s wrong with that? I was wandering around in shorts and flip flop… admittedly with a waterproof jacket over the top, but still!
05 Jul at 4:37 pm
Oh we had that too yesterday. It never reached its full potential. However today the rain came down and the floods came up. Nice picture. Note to Jem: Carry on talking to yourself. It makes me giggle!
05 Jul at 4:43 pm
That is a great picture and something that I have been unable to take a photo of yet, then again I don’t really like being out in thunder and lightening.
05 Jul at 6:01 pm
Oh… I’ve been there before XD Not rural though, I don’t think. I went with my Mum to some school where Barbara Marciniak was holding some kind of seminar. Lol. Ew, today was so hot! I was absolutely dying in maths, and at lunch I made way to the library and opened some windows, got out a laptop and wrote that last comment I made :P Now it’s nice and cool at least. Terrible, isn’t it, Jem? It’s either torrential rain or desert heat.
05 Jul at 8:43 pm
It rains here for a week at a time, and every afternoon around 3, it seems, in the summer. Yesterday it was lightning from about two throughout the night. No fireworks for us. I suppose that’s the price of living in a damned rainforest.
05 Jul at 8:52 pm
I just got home from work, and it was really pooring there. So I was all happy that I didn’t have to water my plants, but when I came home it turned out it didn’t rain there at all. Not one drop! Beautiful shot, it’s so hard to get a decent shot of lightning.
06 Jul at 2:50 am
You aren’t crazy until you get the sudden urge to *want* to wash dishes during a lightning storm.
06 Jul at 5:20 pm
I like lightning, but only if I’m in the house, looking at it from a closed window. Ah, the safety. Hehe.
06 Jul at 10:39 pm
Ooo…that’s a shot I’ve never managed to capture.
07 Jul at 3:13 am
Wow, what a wicked picture!
13 Jul at 8:21 am
Correct me if I am wrong, but doesn’t the lightning last less than a second? Would you have time to see it, notice it, move the camera and take a picture at all? I’d only imagine actually taking a photo (not a video) of a lightning by a strange random fact, too.
18 Oct at 11:06 pm
wow really cool!