We had a very active storm cell move over a large swath of Tucson
last night. Unfortunately, our home was in the middle of it so I
was not able to get any decent shots out in the open. It rained
quite a bit and there were some wickedly close strikes. So I took
some shots from under the back porch and from the garage. This one
is from the back porch and was the closest strike of the evening.
Not a very enjoyable photo experience because of the rain and the proximity
of the strikes. The white specks in the image are raindrops reflecting the lightning.

More lightning images at http://www.pbase/pegsam/lightning