Nice catch! Personally, I thinhk this image would be much stronger with the bottom third cropped off (the road and the lit up building, too). As it is now, the light trails on the road are competing too much with the lightning. I realize that you obviously intended the shot this way, this is just my opinion on what I feel would be a stronger crop, even though it's a very different shot at that point.
I think it's a great capture of lightning, but the car lights reallu take away from the picture. I know you really couldn't do anything about them, but it would have made the picture much better IMHO....
One of these days I'm gonna get a good lightning shot, when I do, I hope
that it is this good. I would really like to see this with the noise cleaned up.