article_snippet.sent: Typically lightning is seen from a distance, or from the side, and it is rare to capture an image almost directly beneath a bolt.
article_snippet.sent: Most of the time you'll view a lightning channel from the side and it'll appear to travel in one general direction only. '
article_snippet.sent: However, if that lightning bolt - or part of the lightning bolt - is coming straight at you, that is, you are looking at it from one end.
article_snippet.sent: It appears brighter because there is more than one section of lightning channel 'overlapping' in the camera's frame.'
article_snippet.sent: The Met Office's lightning expert Sven-Erik Enno told MailOnline: 'On the particular photo it seems that the upper part of the channel may be pointed towards the observer. '