A LOCAL has captured this striking image of lightning over the Malvern Hills during the spring storms on May 9.
The image was captured after the photographer was inspired to watch the storm in Little Malvern due to an interest in the literary works of William Langland, the writer of the famous medieval English poem, Piers Plowman, which features Malvern in its writing.
Malvern, where the writer is believed to have resided during the 1300s, is the starting place of the Piers Plowman poem.
The photographer said: “This is the first time I’ve tried to photograph thunder and lightning.
“I’ve been researching Piers Plowman and as I heard the thunder start from my home, I was listening to a talk about the poem by local poet Peter Sutton.
“It seemed very fitting to go to Little Malvern because of it’s history and links with the medieval story.”
The opening of the poem reads: “And on a May morwenynge on Malverne hilles
Me bifel a ferly, of Fairye me thoghte.
I was wery forwandred and wente me to reste
Under a brood bank by a bourne syde;
And as I lay and lenede and loked on the watres,
I slombred into a slepyng, it sweyed so murye”
