ELECTRIFYING!!!

It stormed like crazy a couple weeks ago....and I always yearn for lightning shots. The dark sky and notoriously slow digital camera were conspiring against me...my tripod was broken...I had no shutter release ...My only hope was to try to anticipate just when a flash would occur and attempt to precede it by mere seconds! I spent 2 hours at it, only winding up with 2 lightning shots...here they are. They were taken out my 2nd story apartment building.The shot below is the sky after a previous storm...it was so awesome that a photo just couldn't do it justice! Ain't nature grand?