Beautiful Black & White Storm Photography by Mitch Dobrowner
California-based photographer Mitch Dobrowner
began shooting “Storms” in 2009 as an experiment to photograph the
dramatic thunderstorms happening across the Great Plains and what is
known as Tornado Alley. Dobrowner has since traveled more than 19,000
miles over 14 different states in the pursuit of the most extreme
weather he can find.
“The goal is to capture the structure of
supercell thunderstorms, the feeling of standing in wind gusts breaching
50 MPH, the lightning, the rumble of hail. I’ve never seen anything
like these storms before. . . . They are born everyday, they fight
against their environment to stay alive, change their form as they age,
they lose their strength, and eventually they die. The hope is that the
images presented communicate how I feel while standing in front of these
amazing forces of nature.”
Mitch Dobrowner has just won the
2012 Sony’s World Photographer of the Year award with his stunning
Storms series. Dobrowner’s extraordinary black and white photos of
brooding skylines pregnant with impending storms defeated over 112,000
rival images that were submitted from 171 different countries.
