The hardest part was getting the bolt of lighting. Then I Cropped, contrast, lighting, cloned out 3 spots on the right side just above the tree, and added text.
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As impressive as the lightning capture is, I would prefer a different composition. If you had the pixels to work with, maybe having the lightning biased slightly to one side of the frame, or rotating the canvas to give a different angle for the bolt. The centered composition doesn't work here imho. Great capture though.
Since you've chosen to use text as part of your final composition, I've got no choice but to judge you on it... word art just isn't working as a CD cover this decade. The photo itself is very difficult to focus on with the water droplets everywhere.
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