I know lightning is hard to capture, so I'll give you this one as a very good photo and well placed to the right, I like this one even though it is in your favorite colors. Hard to tell if it's natural or tweaked with Photoshop. From what I saw this might be your best photo here next to the two boys in the raft.

great photograph!

This was a lucky shot. My daughter went out to check the storms progress and came running back in to get me and the camera. It was just a 10 min window where the sunset make the sky seem to catch fire. There were also several rainbows but with the sky so vibrant they didn't turn out so well when photographed. I was just shooting like crazy and some how got this awesome shot! Thanks for all the votes and views. I am honored that you all enjoy my work.Thank you!

i also really love how the two main streaks are disconnected... That wasn't photoshopped was it cause it looks like a perfect fade... Either way great job!

wow, nice !!!!!!!!!

I gotta say this is a very dramatic photo. This is all about the weather. The force of it.Especially, this the colors of the clouds it adds texture to make it look like a painting with the lighting dancing across. You definately have wonderful luck to capture this.

very nice photo. I love the color, unreal.Love it

I'm not very good at giving critiques on other peoples work so I'm just going to tell it like I see it. This is a beautiful photo, and the colors are so vibrant and lively, I wish I could have been there to see this! Lightning is so hard to get good shots of and you nailed it by far on this shot. Amazing!

Folks, vote-stuffing is not cheating, its allowed. VH1 could block it entirely with a simple line of code, but they dont. And while you can be eliminated for breaking the Official Rules, the line about one-vote-per-day is not in the Official Rules. Its in the FAQs. What follows is a fast and effective way to vote-stuff, but there may be better ways. First, create a Critic account with a fake email address and a very simple password. A good password is five quote-marks in a row, since the quote-mark key is right next to the Enter key on your keyboard. Login to your new account, being sure to Copy your email address so you can Paste it later. Go to your photo of choice and repeat the following over and over -Step 1 Click on VOTE NOW. -Step 2 Click on LOGOUT. -Step 3 Click on your browsers back-arrow. -Step 4 Click on LOGIN. -Step 5 Paste your email in the email field.-Step 6 Type in your password, and then hit your Enter key. -Return to Step 1. Sometimes youll be thwarted by pop-up ads, but simply click on your back-arrow and then forward-arrow to avert them. If youre quick you can crank out 5 votes per minute, close to 300 an hour. Realize that Critic profiles show their last 12 votes. So when finished voting for your photo, vote for 12 of the other photos in the contest to keep your competitors from finding your trail and viciously pouncing on you.This is crazy, but this is whats happening at the Top5 level of this competition. Ive out paced several of the Top5 regulars using this method in click-sprints against each of them. So if you have a great photo, be prepared to do a lot of clicking to reach and remain in the Top5. Then be prepared for really nasty critiques and verbal abuse from stealth critics, who are actually your competitors and their friends in disguise. And have a sense of humor when you see contestants fain ignorance about all the votes they receive and act humbled by all the attention. These contestants are the real masters of the game. If attention is what you crave, welcome to the rat race!

WOW...that's all I can really say about that.