Due to (I’m not kidding) HUNDREDS of request for a poster print of our Hyannis Supercell panorama from May 20th ealier this year, I’m pleased to announce that we have put the amazingly gorgeous image in the inventory of our store on Zazzle.com. Buy direct from our Zazzle store and save, while also be able to immediately select from dozens of great printing and framing options.

As a storm chaser I’m use to driving endless miles in search for photogenic storms. But one of the perks of having a home in Oklahoma is that on occasion great storms come to you, as was the case last night when I took these lightning photos.

Recently, I have had a few bad experiences with television media companies, as well as print media companies concerning the ability to sell a product – either video or prints. I thought maybe I was doing something wrong; perhaps I was out pricing myself (even though I consider my prices to be extremely decent). I’ve been doing this for years, but it is a quickly changing market.

If you woke this morning in east Oklahoma and were lucky enough to see the sunrise, you had a great treat to relax to while enjoying your morning coffee!

I don’t know what is more thrilling, when you intercept a tornado – or when one of your long-time friends and past tour guest intercepts a tornado. The latter happened today when I received a text message from Nicole saying there was a wicked storm in the Denver area and she was going to head out an “see what she could see”.

Conditions are finally becoming a bit more favorable across the High Plains for severe weather. However, the past few weeks have been extremely limited due to lack of flow, lack of moisture and you guessed it – lack of quality storms. We had been reduced to being extremely happy with rainbows lately – it’s not what we’re here for, but they still make a great photo!

So what do storm chasers do when the weather is horrible (that is sunny with a light breeze)? They drive around and take artsy photos of anything that they can pass the time with. I snapped a few shots of a wind turbine in NE Kansas last week and made this composite image from them.

Tour 4 was a rough week for storms, we only had a single chase day – Wednesday May 20th. We intercepted a supercell near Hyannis, NE that is otherwise known as the “Mullin Storm”.

Just a few photos of some storms during the first half of May 2009.

Whenever possible I always try to attend various launches from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida and with no weather of notability happening in the plains – Renee and I decided to make a trip to the east coast and witness the launch of STS-119 from Titusville, FL.

Last year I had the opportunity to attend the launch of space shuttle mission STS-123, which was a night launch and that was particularly exciting for me. We arrived on the site around 4 p.m. in the afternoon even though the launch wasn’t scheduled for liftoff for another 11 hours – each minute that went by was filled with the anticipation of what my resulting photos would look like.

FaceBook is a popular social media website, and websites can’t chase storms – but FaceBook might just own hundreds of storm chasers photographs. If you judge chasers by the amount of photos they have collected – FaceBook would have to be at the top of the list.