The Chisos in the Storm

Excellent timing with the lightning to go with the beautiful overall landscape, Alberto. I like the overall scene with the foreground desert flora and the beautiful mountain background. The processing looks lto me like you employed processing filter(s)? It's very painterly. Attractive but photo-artish to me. I think you could try darkening the sky and/or adding more contrast to the sky. It seems a little light and neutral for the stormy conditions, and more contrast may give the lightening more pop.

Thank you Scott - there is no processing filter, the funny look is a combination of some sort of mist/haze and very challenging light, where I really had to push the dark tones to squeeze some detail, plus a raw file that was captured with a small 4/3 sensor. Processing is a combination of Lightroom and Nik Viveza (just contrast, clarity, etc). I have about ten different versions, and under normal circumstances I probably would not have presented any of them, but I couldn't resist the lightning bolt!

Nice catch, Alberto.  The mountains look great.  To me it's the fore that looks a little too green for the desert.  At any rate, the lightning is the story, and that is most enjoyable.

Overall I like your composition and the way that you have arranged the elements in the scene.  There is some nice light on the mountains, and there is interesting texture in the clouds. The lightning strike also adds to the interest of the scene.  I would recommend adding some midtone contrast - especially to the mountains.  If you are familiar with Tony Kuyper's luminosity masks I would recommend using a curves adjustment with one of the mid-tones masks.  I find the luminosity masks to be indispensible when processing landscape images because of the ability to target individual tones in a scene without affecting global contrast. 

It looks like you were getting some nice light ahead of the storm on the mountains. I like the whole image and the lightening is the cherry on top. Darkening the sky might add some more drama, but it looks good as is.