Posted on 4/6/26
Right, I’m sitting at Heathrow and the adventure is about to begin — this time it’s something very different to anything I’ve done before!
I’m heading to Denver, Colorado, for a week-long storm chasing photography tour across the Great Plains with Storm Chasing Photography Tours (https://www.stormchasingphotographytours.com).
This is prime season on the Plains — late spring is when the atmospheric conditions collide to produce some of the most jaw-dropping severe weather on the planet. We’re talking massive supercell thunderstorms with incredible sculptural structure, vast skies boiling with bubble-like mammatus clouds, enormous lightning strikes, and — if we’re really lucky — tornadoes. The kind of skies that make you feel very small indeed.
The tour covers a huge swathe of the northern, central and southern Plains, chasing whatever the weather throws at us, following storm systems on radar and learning to read the structure of these incredible atmospheric events to create the most compelling images possible. Long days, long drives, lots of fast food — and I absolutely cannot wait! 😄
One thing I’m particularly excited about is having a proper go at timelapse for the first time. Watching a supercell build and rotate over the Plains in real time is one thing — capturing that whole dynamic drama compressed into a few seconds of footage is something else entirely. Fingers crossed the Hasselblad and I can pull it off!
Watch this space — it’s going to be a wild week!
Posted on 21/4/26
After crossing the border and enduring the thorough Chilean customs examination — every bag opened, every food item scrutinised, a process the Chileans take very seriously to protect their unique ecosystem — we drove into the Torres del Paine National Park, which was to be our base for the next five days.
Upon entering the park two things assert themselves immediately.
Posted on 16/4/26
El Calafate — Gateway to the End of the World
Every great journey has a starting point, and ours began in El Calafate — a small, wind-battered town of around 20,000 sitting on the southern shore of Lago Argentino in the Santa Cruz province of Argentine Patagonia.
Posted on 27/3/26
New York doesn’t ease you in gently. It hits you the moment you step out of JFK — the noise, the scale, the sheer relentless energy of it all. This was my latest chapter with the Hasselblad, and the city gave me everything: blazing sunshine, biting cold, driving rain, and even a fleeting dusting of snow. Seven days. Countless frames. One extraordinary city.
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