It's always fun to experiment with photography. I have had little success trying to capture dramatic lightning images, so as a storm was developing directly above us, I set up the camera on a tripod and exposed several time exposures settings to see what I could get. This was the best of the bunch.

Data: Tripod-mounted Nikon D200 with Nikon 16-85mm zoom @ 38mm.
f/7.1 & 15 sec