Uploads from Brenda Anderson, tagged lightning, with geodata

Flash Boom!

nobody@flickr.com (Brenda Anderson) — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 09:57:36 -0700

I stuck my hand out the window of our hotel room, put the camera on video, and starting filming. About 12 seconds into it, FLASH!! and lightning struck in several places just across the road!

(Here's a still of the strike).

Talk about being in the right place at the right time. :)

(Boston, 12 April 2008, 7:45pm)

Strike One (and two and three!)

nobody@flickr.com (Brenda Anderson) — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 09:39:32 -0700

Brenda Anderson posted a photo:

Sometimes you're in the right place at the right time. (7:45pm on Sat Apr 12)

This is a video still taken from our hotel room in Charlestown, looking toward the Zakim Bridge (zap!) and Boston. (using our brand new Panasonic TZ5 that we just got that day!)

Never realised that one lightning strike could hit so many places at the same time.

(15 second video)

lightning as it happens

nobody@flickr.com (Brenda Anderson) — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 09:39:30 -0700

Brenda Anderson posted a photo:

Sometimes you're in the right place at the right time.

This is 9 video stills taken from our hotel room in Charlestown, looking toward the Zakim Bridge (zap!) and Boston.
(30 frames per second video. One of the features of our new camera (Panasonic TZ5 is that it will create a 9-photo mosaic from the video)

(15 second video)

Flash Boom2

nobody@flickr.com (Brenda Anderson) — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 17:17:13 -0700

Brenda Anderson posted a video:

I had a bit of a play with my original "straight from the camera" Flash-Boom! video.

I trimmed it to make it shorter... then I took the bit where the lightning actually hits and slowed that down, so you can see it better...

finally, I added sound effects of rain & thunder to make it sound more like how I heard it (but the camera didn't capture).