idea studio: Lightning in Cape Town

Images of last night's rare lightning show in Cape Town

Lightning in Cape Town and Milnerton

Every five years or so I get a chance to shoot the lightning, no tripod... just wits and a steady hand.

That guy on the top floor has had it

Same guy got zapped twice

the unrivalled quality of local media. i are famous, kinda.

The last time Cape Town had lightning was in 2009, when I lived in what was essentially an industrial park. There is an improvement in the view, so that's a good trend.

2009: the unrivalled natural splendour of the view, killarney gardens

second exposure, same stick

Update

So that was Sept 2009, Aug 2015 and now...
It's 9:32pm, Monday March 20, 2017. The third time I've seen lightning here The storm, such as it is, has now endured almost 3 hours, and it goes on. From my apartment, I have a good view - which would be better if i went upstairs, but, you know, stairs.

Lightning is poetry.

Imagine we found a habitable world but the catch was that random and intense electricity blasts whatever is nearby asunder, in a manner that ensures you have just enough prep time to panic.

Can't imagine anyone would live there.

I was under a lightning conductor at school when a bolt struck, some twenty feet from my head, and it felt like the world had exploded. Everything went white and shook with the percussion, and I thought, briefly, this is it. I'm dead.The noise was unbelievable, for a while after our ears rang and we couldn't hear each other speak,