We’re having our first major thunderstorm after moving in to our new place. In case I didn’t mention it before, I love thunderstorms. Got some good audio on this one, too, just haven’t processed it yet. To get the audio, I used my Canon S1-IS, which only records audio if there’s a pre-existing photo image. So I took some photos so I could fill in the audio.

Now, I did not even try to catch a lightning bolt. If it were dark, I could have–set the camera to take a 15-second exposure, and then take enough exposures, eventually you’ll get a few shots, like I did here, here, and here (I told you I loved these things–even after I was struck by lightning once.) But in daylight, forget it–you have to catch the lightning bolt within a split-second shot, and you have to be facing just the right direction to boot.

So imagine my surprise when I caught exactly that lucky break. I took a photo just as lightning flashed (it only did so once every few minutes), and even then I didn’t think I had gotten it; the little picture screen on the camera didn’t show it. But when I looked at it after I came inside, this is what I found:

If you look at the unreduced crop of where it hit, you see this:

So you can see, pretty sharply, the one place in Tokyo where you would not have wanted to be right at that moment.