Posted on 08/27/2019 6:56:51 PM PDT by Magnatron
Ty Schmitt is a landscape photographer by profession, but his true passion is for the angry sky above.
For the past eight years, Schmitt has been chasing storms, a lifestyle many were first exposed to in the 1996 blockbuster Twister. The photographer spent the past five of those years closely tracking storms in the Midwest, and the three years before that shooting monsoon thunderstorms in Arizona.
“People come from around the world to chase storms in the Midwest as it produces the most photogenic storms in the world,” Schmitt tells me over email. “The Great Plains is the Mecca for storm chasing/storm structure and tornadoes.”
For anyone requiring proof as to whether this assessment is true, Schmitt has just released an 8K time-lapse video revealing some of the dark beauty he captured in the Great Plains during the 2019 spring storm season. (“One of the best seasons in recent history,” according to Schmitt.) From Darkness to Light is a love letter to the majestic, occasionally terrifying art-in-progress constantly churning above our heads, occasionally cohering into brief masterpieces. Schmitt recorded the swirling, shimmering, unfurling images in the video while traveling over 30,000 miles in the course of three months.
(Excerpt) Read more at fastcompany.com ...
Capturing photos and video like this would have been a dream job for me. I can always appreciate the beauty and force in nature, and it was very well captured here.
Lovely, and well done!
I’ll bet that life insurance is tough to get in that line of work.
It’s eight hours (8k) long?
I found landscape photography even safer than being a Coast Guard land guy. Except for the occasional tornado.
Incredible!
Storm chasing in the Midwest is at the top of my bucket list. Watching Ty’s video really ramps up the yearning.
LUV, you need to check this out!
Fast Company website is very strange. I click on it, it loads, then suddenly disappears. Anyone else have this problem?
Wow! That was fantastic! I saw lots of beautiful lightning that I’ll bet you snagged. LOL!
8k refers to video resolution
Nope.
Get some 3rd party software, update it and clean your machine.
Thank you for sharing, really incredible.
Breathtaking .... , Gods artistry is beyond words . Very well done time lapse film.
I knew you’d enjoy it. Awesome storms though I don’t know that being directly underneath would be much fun.
Yep, got a few cool scaps and am trying to decide which one to use as new desktop wallpaper. LOL
I loved those layered clouds in rotation. I see a lot of them on storm chasers, but seeing it at fast speed really shows off the rotation.
It would be hard to choose just one. Make a collage of them. :)
Thanks. That’s great, even if it did bring back a couple of scary memories from my time growing up in Iowa.
Watching mesocyclones wind up and stack in tiers is mesmerizing.
That was an excellent video, thank you.
Yeah, in real-time, the rotation isn’t quite as noticeable. Sped up like they are in the video - - oooo-la-la!!
No collage. I change wallpaper fairly often so I’ll just do one at a time. LOL! Currently I have a scap from Charles’ most recent “tour” of his hidden orchid garden.
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