Realistic Lightning

Hey all this heres my first Real thread.Anyway Im thinking about getting criticised for my lilimage ... now the point of it is to make the most realistic picture-to-life photo-realistic lightning.Now the attached image is the one of a made lightning Ive worked on for like 2 weeks.I know Im only 14 but I do get some payed work from my dads work, for simple sites and stuff.Anyway one of my dads colleagues asked him to ask me to make some lightning images as he had no experience.So I took me some net lessons (*cough* good-tutorials *cough*) but there I only found a few tutorials and I combined some to get this.Now I know what youre thinking : This here nagging newbie got Xenofex 2 and made this in a 3 seconds.FALSE.Made it legit.True a friend of mine has it and that has inspired me.What ya think ?