Despite the fact that I did a lot of lightning photos, I’m not an active stormchaser. I’m a passive storm photographer and I simply wait for random storms coming to me. Thus I very rarely see the storm coming from the distance.
This time I got lucky and there was a very active thunderstorm, nicely visible from the distance (about 30 kilometers). The final photo is a stack of 5 photos per 60 seconds = 5 minutes exposure in total.