At the end of the day scouting for night time places to photograph it is nice to see a scene like this developing.  Sometimes the scene just has too much dynamic range to try to capture and other times it is possible with HDR or other techniques.  This is just one exposure and it was hard to get all the range needed to capture the image I was looking at.  so I took a quick snapshot and just enjoyed watching the storm develop.  We were on a trip to photograph the milky way and neither of us had any lens long enough to capture what we wanted too.  Traveling light sometimes means you don't get all the images you want, but that is ok.  Sometimes it is nice just to watch the scene develop as it was in this case even though I captured the image with an wider focal length lens than I wanted too.  Enjoy your travels the best you can. -Mark