A lightning storm illuminated the dark skies of Brisbane and the Gold Coast in the early hours of Tuesday, December 6.

Stephanie Boxsell, from the Gold Coast’s Biggera Waters, was excited to capture the storm, and hoped to score a stunning timelapse. But she accidentally put the setting to slow-motion, thus producing this accidental, but brilliant, view of a pulsing lightning strike.

The Bureau of Meteorology had warned of severe thunderstorms packing damaging winds in southeast Queensland. Credit: Stephanie Boxsell via Storyful