Photographing weather takes a lot of skill and an equal amount of luck. Positioning one’s self to get the right composition in a changing storm while balancing light can be tough mixed with some luck.

The Heavens Open

The Heavens Open

On July 11th a storm built over Payson, AZ and moved southeast towards the east valley. The chase began by deploying out to the Apache Trail; an area on the north side of the Superstition Mountains. Shortly after arriving near dusk the storm hit.

At first I drove further out but doubled back to a state park so I could capture this. The entire trip out I was watching the storm, movement of the storm, amount of rain and location of the sun in relation to the storm for some back lighting.

Taking all things into consideration this absolutely worked.