I just wanna point a few things about that picture. Fist the lightning is awesome :) The shadows produced by the trees adds a lot to the picture, the sky was amazingly cool with the colors, those characteristics made this shot almost perfect, the only thing I'm disappointed with is the orientation, the horizon line is not straight, and this is not natural to the human eye, so if I had to change anything in this pic it would be just this one thing...

Once again, nice work!

Thanks so much for the kind words! The horizon angle bothered me as well, but I managed to snap this right before letting the dog out! As you can imagine, it looked much less pristine when she'd finished playing!