Despite an relatively cool summer for Madrid in August, once into September the temperature shot up into the 30s again. Highest official recording this week was 39 I think. This made sleeping difficult again, but last night we were treated to a spectacular storm. It is raining again now and it has dropped to a reasonable 28 degrees.

Seeing lightening flash across the skies, I couldn’t resist trying to get some pics with lightening forks in them. This is something I’ve been wanting to do ever since seeing some spectacular storms in Austria as a kid.

Once again, the Canon EOS 30d has shown its colours. I took 628 pictures, or more correctly the camera took the pics while I sat around chatting to Pete who’d just returned from Mongolia. I locked the shutter release down so that as soon as one pic was done, it took the next. I returned to the camera every so often to recompose and slow the shutter speed down (as the night got darker, I could take longer images, giving greater chance of capturing a fork). Anyway, of the 628 images, 27 captured lightening forks. Here’s some of the best.