It suggests the high winds of a shelf cloud actually bent the path of the lightning strike. Lightning Boy Photos, and more photos, are on this site. There is also a brief how-to page. You probably will spend more than a few hours here, but a faster connection speed is better than a slow dial-up connection. The Australian Michael Bath has more than 150 photographs on his site.
Photos are for sale, but the Web traveller can browse and look through the collection.
The photo on Bath's home page is worth the visit alone. It is a stunning photo. It's a good read, and you can follow links at the bottom of the page to his other pages of photography, work, and home. The images also include tornadoes and other weather abnormalities. Absolutely riveting photographs, more than two dozen in all, taken in central Florida by David Stillings are accompanied by interesting narrative on how the pictures came to be.