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Contact: You have to type in the below e-mail as it's not clickable.

 

Stock and Licensing: To license images, simply e-mail me with the images wanted(there are ID's in the stock section near each image) and as specific usage as you can. I'm pretty much always around a computer and can handle things quickly. I can then send a quote or e-mail back. If agreed I can get the file to you in a number of ways. Your ftp location, my site ftp, e-mail, or one of the file sending services.

 

Prints: The prints are done in lustre finish and shipped directly from a lab. I'm open to other print types. (It's currently down for the time being as I figure out a new way to do it.)

 

Short bio:

I'm basically just a storm chaser that got into photography because video captures weren't doing things justice. I started chasing in 1999, but had always watched storms around town. I usually drive around 20,000 miles a year just chasing storms, from Texas to North Dakota, Colorado to Indiana. Though more and more I'm satisfied with South Dakota to Oklahoma, Colorado to Iowa.

I've always shot with Canon Digital Rebel SLRs, except for briefly having a Canon 5D II DSLR. Not a massive need for anything beyond a Rebel for shooting storms. I have a 10-22 EF-s, a 50mm 1.8, and a 100-400L and that is it for lenses. I shoot strictly in RAW. I guess I started with a Sony F707 in 2002, then went through about all the rebels.

Second to a love of storms, is a love of all other things weather. I love witnessing rare weather and sky scenes, such as atmospheric optics, fog displays from above, ice-storms, blizzards, and even massive geese migrations, topping 1 million in one location.

In 2004 this became my soul income, not on purpose. In early 2011 it remains so, though highly doubtful for much longer.

 

A bit about animals:

I'm a huge animal lover. All life really. I am truly bothered by how animals are treated and wish I could somehow change things. Example. A dog on a chain is just flat out wrong. If it were up to me this would be illegal. So easy for me to see how wrong it is. It boggles my mind someone can do this to their pet. Accepted things aren't always right. It's a LIFE on a chain, no other way about it. One night after a chase I saw this little dog in a backyard on a chain, sitting there all by itself in the world, looking towards this house. I hoped it was just out there for the time it takes to go potty and that that wasn't the norm of its life. I really sort of doubted that was the case. I just see this LIFE just like mine and yours with all this curiosity stuck to that pole for its little eternity. What was its point in being created if that is its life? Fed and ignored perhaps, we know this happens out there. I want to run around and cut chains when I see it's not just out going potty. Sucks there have to be pets as is, least one could do is make that animal's life as free as they possibly can. And a chain....well.....truly horrible if you stop and look at it and think. I can see a few of your faces as you read this. Probably saying, "what a wuss". Ah well. Thinking is not the hardest thing to do. We all see the same thing(s). Wish we all could have a bit more compassion even if it means "going out of our way". Accepted things aren't always right. Take a second and look again. Open up your mind to what it is you are seeing, not the fact you are used to seeing it. Here is one way to look at it. Say 10 years is the average life span of a dog. Now think back 10 years and how long ago that was. Imagine all of the things that have happened in your life and instead of those times being free to you to do what you wanted, put your neck in a chain and strap it to a tree or pole for that whole time...long boring day after long boring day...years worth of them. And it really isn't about just pole and chain, but even just being ignored and left isolated. It is not hard to do a few things to make a LIFE better.

 


 

Links

I try to only add chaser links. If your link disappeared it's likely when I updated/checked links there was nothing there/it wasn't working. If you don't already have your own links section I may or may not add you.

 

 

Storm Chaser Web Sites:

Adam Adkins

Adam Lucio

Alex Hermant

Amos Magliocco

Andrew Pritchard

Andy Fischer

Australiasevereweather.com

Ben Cotton

Bill Doms

Bill Hark

Bill Reid

Brett Roberts

Brian Stertz

Brian Thalken

Bryan Lauber

Caleb Elliott

Cazatormentas

Chris Kridler

Chris White

Christian Neumann

Chuck Doswell

Craig Maire

Jim Leonard

Darin Brunin

Dave Crowley

Dave Lewison

David Drummond

Dean Cosgrove

Dean Gill

Dennis Oswald

Dew Drop

Dustin Wilcox

Echosofthunder

Eric Nguyen

Eric Treece

Forrest Lambert

Gene Moore

Gene Rhoden

Gewitterfront.de

Jason Politte

Jack Corso

Jayson Prentice

Joe Miller

Jeff Gammons

Jeff Snyder

Jeremy Ludin

Jesse Bass

Jonathan Garner

Julien Batard

Kathryn Piotrowski

KC Storm.org

Ken Reynolds

Kurt Hulst

Laura Duchesne

Marc Buschmann

Mark Seltzer

Matt Ziebell

Martin Zoidl

MCWAR

Melanie Kern-Favilla

Micheal O'Keeffe

Mike Deep

Mike Geukes

Mike Umscheid

Natual Elements Fury

NSW Storms

Oconomo Chasing

Paul Hadfield

Rebekah LaBar

Robert Prentice

Roger Hill

Ron Gravelle

Sam Barricklow

Scott Ackerman

Scott Bennett

Scott Blair

Scott Currens

Scott McPartland

Sean Mullins

Shane Adams

Sheila Ward

Stephen Locke

Steve Miller OK

Steve Miller TX

Steve Peterson

Storm Chasers.org

Storm Spectator.com

Tarmo Tanilsoo

Tom Warner

Tony Laubach

Tony Perkins

Verne Carlson

Walker Ashley

Weather-photos.net

Wes Luginbyhl

 

 

 

Information and Merchandise:

Dryline Web Hosting

Allison House

The Debris Show

Storm Lab

StormChaserForum.com

 

Tours:

Chase Tours.com

 

Photography Links(some are chasers)

Matt Stuart

Ryan McGinnis

Dick McGowan's Blog

Nicolas Gascard Blog

Nicolas Gascard

Vincent Deligny

Tonight's Sky

Kevin Palmer

Declan O'Doherty

Gus Nelson

Brett Nickeson

Chris Allington

Evan Ludes

Antonio JGN

Erik Kolstad

Ken Fergeson

Natures-light-photography.com

Force of Nature Photography.com

Piet Berger

Tom Trott

Brian Emfinger

Nightskyhunter.com

Marko Riikonen

Sam Barricklow

Aaron Kennedy