I have around 15 mins max recording from the thunderstorm, although not from one single continuous video recording. i have recordings from other windows around the house. (i said around 30 mins, but hadn’t actually roughly added up the total duration of all the footage, and i also have 120 useless images showing nothing interesting, which i took simply by pressing the shutter button continuously until i got bored. i then hit on the idea of recording the storm by video).

When i recorded the bit in question, i wasn’t holding the camera perfectly steady, because i find it had to do so, and my hand was resting against the window frame – which wasn’t very comfortable. as i was recording i thought i saw something red around the area of the tree.

When i viewed the footage on the pc later on, it simply confirmed what i thought i had seen.

To try and show that it was not through a closed window, my window has ‘Tudor style lead lattice work’ across it, and if the window was closed, the picture below shows roughly what i would have got – complete with horse.

When i have broadband, i will upload the recordings somewhere, complete with sound, and I’ll post when i have on there.

It looks like it is a reflection of a bolt in the window you were filming through, used to get my storm pictures when I was in the carib by using time exposure at night with some spectacular results.

i wasn’t filming through a window – the window was open, and the video shows that i was not filming through the window – you can see it open

I would guess its done by a video editing programme called ALAM DV or sumfin like that.

i don’t have any video editing software like that. ive never heard of ALAM DV.

thanks riki. no really, its real. its not a photo – its from a film that i took with a digital camera

the field that it stikes is a horses paddock. if horses were on it at the time, would it have killed them if they were close enough?

from whalebone: Any way you can post the whole video or a clip somewhere ?

i’d love to post the entire footage, but its five megabytes in size. once my exams are over, i’ll be buying broadband and i’ll probably be able to post it somewhere on the internet, if you are interested.

i’ll tell you once i have it online, if you still want to see it.

thanks