Monsoon II: Mike Olbinski’s Arizona Storm Timelapse
A storm can look solid in a still photograph: a wall of cloud, a bright fork of lightning, a dark band on the horizon. Mike Olbinski’s Mons...
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Lightning Photography & Storm Stories
Discover lightning photography and storm films that capture dramatic moments in the sky. Explore the weather stories behind these scenes, then browse cloud formations, powerful winds and more natural phenomena.
Remembering Rambo After the Mount Bierstadt Lightning Strike
A photograph of a dog on a mountain is usually a happy record of a day outside. For Jonathan Hardman, the pictures of Rambo became somethin...
Twelve Remarkable Weather Photographs—and What They Show
Hair standing straight up makes an unforgettable photograph. In a storm, however, it is a reason to think about lightning exposure, not a r...
Twenty Thunderstorm Photographs: Light, Scale and Changing Skies
A lightning photograph divides a scene into two kinds of time: the patient landscape and the sudden flash. A canyon rim or dark shoreline g...
Craig Shimala’s Chicago Lightning Recordings
Chicago's towers provide a recognisable outline until lightning draws a second, brilliant structure over them. Craig Shimala's stor...
Four Storm Photographers: Different Ways of Working with Severe Weather
Lightning across an open landscape, a broad cloud base and the changing shapes of a storm give these photographers different subjects to fo...