My week last week was bookended with some impressive storm structure. Sunday, April 19th gave me my 9th ever image to make it on Good Morning America the following day. My week was already made at that point. Everything after that this week has just been a bonus as far as I'm concerned. Nothing severe developed on Sunday, but I loved the structure. Saturday, April 25th was a different story. Western Kentucky was expecting quite a bit of severe activity. I decided to drive to

Being a severe weather photographer can be very frustrating at times. Storms don't happen every day. Shooting sunrises and sunsets are how I make lemonade from the lemons weather throws at me. During Winter, or as I prefer to call it, "Sunset Purgatory", a sunrise or sunset may be the only interesting thing weather wise to capture. By Spring, I'm usually sick to death of shooting sunsets. Since I have photographed so many of them, I am very picky. On occasion though, a sunris

I took last week off from my blog since I am still recovering from my disc surgery. I'm still on the mend, but I want to post at least one blog a week for the next 2-3 weeks just to keep busy. Thanks to everyone who has reached out to me and wished me well. It really helps keep my spirits up. I may be stuck at home for a while, which keeps me from finding storms, but when a storm finds me, I'm not about to just sit back and let it trespass on my home turf without documenting

This is going to be a short blog since I'm still recovering from my back surgery. I'm getting better each day, so hopefully I'm back to normal soon. I wasn't about to let a little something like back surgery from at least letting me take photos from home. There are storms forecast for Monday through Thursday of next week as well. I can't drive for another 2 and a half weeks, but my cameras and I will be doing our best to document it from home. Lightning photos are difficult t