Thor'un Çekici, Mike'ın Kamerası! Fırtınaların Ortasına Dalan Cesur Fotoğrafçıdan Nefesinizi Kesecek Kareler

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Made the drive to Texas to chase the upgraded Moderate Risk today! Watch me live later on TornadoChannel.com :) Then it's back to AZ for an elopement at Horseshoe Bend on Wednesday! Great to have local AZ photographer @unheard_harmony along for the ride!

A post shared by Mike Olbinski (@mikeolbinski) on Mar 28, 2017 at 7:26am PDT

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Fun chase yesterday…surprising tornado warning by Springfield, CO, then a brief landspout and finally a shelf where a few of us caught this bolt that hit a wind turbine in the distance near Sublette, KS! You can see the close up in my stories. First time nabbing one of those! #kswx #stormhour

A post shared by Mike Olbinski (@mikeolbinski) on Jun 4, 2019 at 8:57am PDT

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Less than a month from now, lightning like this will return to Arizona and I can’t wait. Meanwhile, we are back chasing balls to the wall until the end of June out here on the plains. Hoping for some great storms! (This is a stacked image of about 8-10 separate photos from about eight minutes of time)

A post shared by Mike Olbinski (@mikeolbinski) on Jun 10, 2019 at 9:07pm PDT

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Before Endgame yesterday, I had a wedding to shoot that started in Phoenix at 10am and ended up in Sedona for a ceremony at the Chapel of the Holy Cross. The skies looked stormy, but it was mostly virga...until it started sprinkling on us and then it moved off to the east and one of the most epic, long-lasting rainbows exploded before our eyes. People were all going nuts taking photos of it, as was I, along with my buddy Brett Wright who was helping out. Such a spectacular way to end Anna and Daniel's big day...and I will admit, it got us so incredibly pumped, that the drive down to watch Endgame was that much better. What a wild day. Last wedding until September, bring on the storms!

A post shared by Mike Olbinski (@mikeolbinski) on Apr 26, 2019 at 10:16am PDT

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July 9th was probably my best day ever chasing epic haboobs :) Had this forecasted about two days ahead of time, but even so, I almost got caught behind the line of storms exploding west along I-8...but I broke through right when things were amazing. This was as the haboob was moving into Vekol Valley and it was an astounding scene, with a massive wall of dust and building storms over it. After this, it was 130 miles and about 2.5 hours of pure insanity. #mop #mikeolbinski #mopphotos #instagramaz #see_arizona #igsouthwest #ig_stormclouds #earthfocus #earthpix #discoverearth #canon #stormhour #igworldclub #monsoon #storms #madwx #azwx #haboob .

A post shared by Mike Olbinski (@mikeolbinski) on Oct 11, 2018 at 9:52am PDT

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Time-lapse clip from August 2nd from the 347 highway north of Casa Grande. The cars racing by are on Interstate 10. I try hard to position myself in the direct path of these things and while this one had a slight left veering it pretty much hit us dead-on. So much great haboob footage this year! #mop #mikeolbinski #earthpix #discoverearth #igworldclub #ig_stormclouds #igworldclub #storms #supercells #earthfocus #vzcomood #best_timelapse #canon #haboob #duststorm.

A post shared by Mike Olbinski (@mikeolbinski) on Aug 30, 2018 at 12:32pm PDT

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I know it’s not a storm pic but last night I was shooting a wedding and told my bride and groom to hang tight...the sunset was probably going to be epic. And it totally was. I was running around like crazy trying to capture it all but I love the simplicity of this image. No better way to end a portrait session than with a sky like that!

A post shared by Mike Olbinski (@mikeolbinski) on Dec 16, 2018 at 10:15am PST

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A shelf cloud passed over this house minutes before, leaving in its wake low hanging clouds that looked like an ocean wave rolling over you from underwater. It was a stunning scene and the time-lapse of this shelf rolling over my position is pretty insane. Can't wait to share it when my next film comes out later in June! May 16th, 2016 near Spearman, TX

A post shared by Mike Olbinski (@mikeolbinski) on May 24, 2016 at 11:57am PDT

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This panoramic has been sitting on my computer in pieces because up until yesterday, I've had zero luck stitching it together. I tried everything...Photoshop, Lightroom, third party pano apps...nothing worked. Not sure why, but major fails on every attempt. But I updated to the latest Photoshop CC over the weekend and decided to try one more time...and BAM, it worked! Couldn't believe my eyes. I've been dying to get this thing together, because it's one of my favorites last year and maybe all-time. Such a beastly supercell south of Lamar, Colorado on May 24th, 2015. Beautiful structure, gorgeous green hail core and toss in the road/cars to give it some scale. We had been a few miles south watching it approach us, and then we had to race north as the rain/hail began to hit us. We stopped after a few miles to take in this incredible view before continuing on to keep in front of it. Spring is just around the corner... #earthpix #instaweather #igworldclub_sky #supercell #cowx #madwx

A post shared by Mike Olbinski (@mikeolbinski) on Feb 16, 2016 at 9:02am PST

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Another experimental edit of this lightning photo from June 1st over Rapid City, South Dakota. Using the @vsco Agfa Vista 400 preset with tweaks. Edited mainly in Lightroom. #vscofilm #vsco #sdwx

A post shared by Mike Olbinski (@mikeolbinski) on Jan 14, 2016 at 10:04am PST

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Huge positive bolt landing just a few miles away from me beer the town of Coolidge, AZ back in 2016 #azwx

A post shared by Mike Olbinski (@mikeolbinski) on Apr 22, 2019 at 2:02pm PDT

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Headed out with the kiddos around 9:30 yesterday morning with southeastern AZ as our target and we pretty much spent the day in an area from Willcox to Elfrida and while it started off slow and frustrating (especially seeing what we were missing up north), stuff started ramping up the closer it got to dark. I dunno if it's all usable, but shot over 500gb of time-lapse yesterday and sat in one spot by Willcox for around 90 minutes shooting lightning that was landing just a couple of miles away by the end. But before all that...just as the sun was about to set, we watched this new storm pop-up over the Dragoon Mountains. Watched it for a bit, but it wasn't super active at the time, and one further south near Bisbee was going crazy. So I dropped south aways and found an awesome open dirt road. Started shooting the storm to the south which put out some insanity, but then my original Dragoon storm started going off, so I pointed the 50mm towards it and went back to my other two cameras. Couldn't believe it when I saw this strike on the back of the camera. One of my favorites of the summer for sure. Dual clear air bolts, maybe positives, just exploding out of the storm, landing in a nice open area, one of them hitting the tiny little hill on the right, and the other possibly on that left hill. Not to mention some night twilight left in the sky and a teeny bolt poking out the top. Fantastic day, got to hang out with my buddy Chris Frailey for most of it and the show at the end of the night had us hooting and hollering for quite awhile haha. More to come! /end ramble #mop #mikeolbinski #mopphotos #instagramaz #see_arizona #igsouthwest #ig_stormclouds #earthfocus #earthpix #discoverearth #canon #stormhour #igworldclub #monsoon #storms #madwx #azwx #weownthenight_az #lightning

A post shared by Mike Olbinski (@mikeolbinski) on Sep 2, 2018 at 2:01pm PDT

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Yesterday didn't seem like anything too exciting. Started south of town early afternoon, dust storm was weak, came home, picked up the kids and we decided to play the storms out west by Tonopah because I had a feeling that the action would end up propagating out there. Things got more intense with strong downbursts near the Salome Highway/I-10 intersection as an outflow boundary progressed northward. The storms started forming over me as I raced towards the town of Aguila, dodging donkeys along the way while marveling at the sunset light that was beginning to shine on everything. As I started making it on the north side of the storms, my cell data returned and I realized the storms I had raced under were intense. I was looking up at the cloud above me and suddenly saw shelfy structure...and when I pulled over, it looks like a supercell for a moment. I couldn't believe my eyes. But the most insane thing to me was the green. I've never seen green like this in Arizona ever. It was so intense. I was standing there in disbelief that a seemingly average day would suddenly go supernova to have this huge storm with a green hail core. And to make it even more incredible, as it moved towards me, the sunset light somehow exploded and I was just in completer and utter awe. This image is a tough one for me...I edited it just like I do all the others. Layers of contrast, a teeny bit of vibrance added...but the colors were so whack, I think people will be asking (and have been on Twitter already) if it's legit. It looked like this to me standing there. Yeah, I edit stuff to look good, but I really tried not to make it look different than it did. I love it :) #mop #mikeolbinski #mopphotos #instagramaz #see_arizona #igsouthwest #ig_stormclouds #earthfocus #earthpix #discoverearth #canon #stormhour #igworldclub #monsoon #storms #madwx #azwx

A post shared by Mike Olbinski (@mikeolbinski) on Jul 12, 2018 at 6:27am PDT

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Epic photo of myself and @wxmstr by my buddy, the legendary @bradhannon from June 19th near Milburn, Nebraska. One of the most stunning supercells I saw this year! With the plains season done for me, I’m feeling a little emotional today. This photo is so meaningful to me. Definitely in my top four chases this year. Only ourselves and one other chaser on this storm which is such a rarity.

A post shared by Mike Olbinski (@mikeolbinski) on Jun 25, 2019 at 7:43am PDT

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Vorticity 2 is out! Here’s a sneak, you can see the rest by clicking the link in my profile! Two years in the making, 55 days roughly of filming and 40k+ miles driven. Hope you enjoy!

A post shared by Mike Olbinski (@mikeolbinski) on Jul 23, 2019 at 10:54am PDT