The unexpected storm

I like the capture of the lightning, but I'd crop out some of the right and bottom blackness. Was this the image you were trying to capture? The setting info is weird; not that it really matters, but I am curious if it was a long exposure, or if all that lightning struck at once.

The photo was taken out of my bedroom window during a night storm, so really didn't have much choice with the foreground. As it was distracting and uninteresting, i silhouetted it out quite a bit. But i like the suggestion about cropping a bit more. It was a long exposure, and I think in total, lightning struck twice