Skyscapes

Lightning strikes behind the Oklahoma State Capitol in Oklahoma City. Taken August, 2006.

This Cross is white, with neon edge-lighting. The storm knocked out power allowing the Cross to have greater contrast when it was silhouetted against the lightning.

Taken in Edmond, Oklahoma on August, 12, 2004.

On May 24, 2008 a tornadic thunderstorm moved from Bison to near Marshall, Oklahoma before dissipating east of Stillwater. This is one of many unusual cloud formations it produced.

A storm approaches Jed Johnson Lake in the WIchita Mountains.

Old barn and mammatus clouds taken near Oxford, Kansas.

A storm leaves a beautiful display of mammtus over Burford Lake in the Wichita Mountains.

Another image of a lightning display near the Oklahoma State Capitol, in Oklahoma City. Taken June, 2007.

This was one of the most violent storms I've photographed in terms of lightning and wind. Taken September 10, 2006 near Clinton, Oklahoma.

Vapor lamps color the Oklahoma City sky during a thunderstorm. The ground-to-cloud lightning was generated from radio and TV antennas that were just over the horizon.

Taken Septemnber 10, 2007.

The eerie light and greenish-gold color of the sky truly made it look like I was in another world. Taken March 3, 2008 in Western Oklahoma near Erick.

An evening storm catches twilight blue and the sunset alpenglow near Guthrie, Oklahoma.

Taken July 18, 2009.

This scene showed the cycle of water on the Great Plains.

The windmill takes, the storm replenishes...

Taken near Slapout, Oklahoma August 18, 2006.

Its east-west orientation and the surrounding hills make Jed Johnson Lake some of the most photogenic scenery in Oklahoma's Wichita Mountains.

Taken July 18, 2005.

This is the full panorama of the Erick, Oklahoma thunderstorm. Another image titled "Tree Amid the Clouds" was also taken of this storm. As I said, the scene appeared to be from another world. Taken March 3, 2008.

The Piedmont Cabin in silhouette of a decaying thunderstorm.

Taken August 10, 2009.

Alpenglow reflects on a thunderstorm near Okarche, Oklahoma.

Taken June 17, 2009.

The story behind capturing this panorama is too long to tell here... Suffice to say it's a miracle the image was captured successfuly and that the photographer survived the event... Taken August, 2004.

"Capitol Lightning"

Lightning strikes behind the Oklahoma State Capitol in Oklahoma City. Taken August, 2006.