This is a photo I took literally minutes ago as a massive electrical storm passed over the top of my home here on the Sunshine Coast, Australia. I am pretty blown away by this shot and I expect people to think this is jazzed up in photoshop, so I will explain how I took the shot and what has been done to it since:
I used my usual device: my Canon IXUS 55. I switched the shot-type to “fireworks” and changed the shot frequency to “continuous”. Then I squatted at the edge of my patio, in the pouring rain, somehow trying to get the roof out of shot (failed) and half protect the lens without getting my grubby paw in shot (succeeded), while taking 150 photographs, one after the other, of the night sky. 2 shots almost caught a lightening strike, 1 shot got a glowing cloud, 146 shots were of pure blackness and 1 shot qualified for posting.
I imported the photos to my mac with iPhoto trashed most of them, exported this one to photoshop, enhanced the contrast by 0.10, decreased the exposure by 0.33, inserted my watermark, cropped half the roof of my house out of it and exported it to upload at these dimensions. So, yes, tweaked – but minimally. I hope you get something out of it. All I can say is that I wish I had of been able to record the clap(s) of thunder that came after it!!