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02/24/2026

I’m back!! It’s been a little over 100 days since my last post and it’s a great one. I had the honor of doing a surprise engagement shoot for some very good friends of mine at the Grand Rapids Downtown Market greenhouse and garden (absolutely gorgeous venue). Huge shoutout to Norman Camera Company for having the option to rent lenses (and more!) so I felt confident I had the right gear to capture this special moment. Pictures to come!

10/31/2025

It’s with great regret that I announce my departure from Wicked Weather. It has been an amazing year full of learning opportunities from individuals across the country who have decades of chasing experience and weather forecasting combined. I have made some great friends and connections within the weather community and cannot thank the team that I joined enough for the chance to grow. At this time I am focusing on moving forward within the weather community as a solo chaser! This post has, in a way, been coming for some time. I have been wanting to separate my passion for storm photography/videography from my photography business for some time now and this is as good a time as any.

With that being said you can find me posting severe weather alerts, severe weather content, space weather content, storm recovery efforts, and my best attempts at forecasting the weather all under Cosmic Storm Chasing. Please go like, follow, and share my new page so I can get to 400 followers and will be able to host lives when I’m out chasing!

I look forward to this new venture and am excited to focus on bringing my passion for weather to you all in a new way.

10/25/2025

I bet the sunrise was even better way up there 🌅

Also our area’s first deep frost for the season! My late fall vegetables somehow are still holding on strong.

Canon EOS R
Canon EF 75-200mm f/4L USM
ISO 400 | f/5.6 | 1/800 second exposure

10/21/2025

A single exposure image from last night around roughly 10:00 pm EDT in Allegan County, MI featuring an Orionid meteor and, what I believe to be, the Andromeda galaxy!

The Orionids are currently in their peak so you should be able to see up to 21 meteors per hour if you look up and somewhat in a northern direction. The Andromeda galaxy can be seen just a little further up in the image and to the left from the meteor trail.

This is, I think, the first time I’ve successfully captured any galaxy and the first time I’ve successfully captured a meteor from the Orionids! You can see them again tonight, provided you’re out of light pollution, and for the next few days with activity slowly decreasing. You can still see Comet Lemmon as well! So many fun things in the night sky right now.

Canon EOS R
Canon EF 24mm f/1.4L USM
ISO 400 | f/1.8 | 10 second shutter

10/17/2025

Some of you may remember my post regarding another comet a few weeks ago but there’s another one floating around out there and that is C/2025 A6 or Comet Lemmon, well I managed to capture it for the first time the other night!! I used a 70-200mm lens but was also able to capture using an 80mm. This comet was honestly kind of hard to pick out with my naked eye but through the rest of October it may be continue to increase it’s magnitude which would in turn increase the chance it becomes naked eye visible! I’ll be posting a video later of how to find it. Events like these make me wish I had a telescope that I could attach my camera body to but that’ll come in due time.

Taken in Allegan County, MI
Canon EOS R
Canon EF70-200mm f/4L USM
ISO 3200 | f/4 | 6 second exposure

10/08/2025

Some scenes from my very short and unexpected chase on the evening of 10/6/2025, all captured around 7:40 - 8:00 pm near the Gun Lake Casino exit or Bradley, MI in Allegan County.

This storm was severe thunderstorm warned, capable of producing winds up to 60 mph and for a short time after moving in off Lake Michigan was capable of producing a tornado. Thankfully this didn’t materialize! There was a confirmed waterspout off the shore of South Haven, MI with this cell and was incredibly photogenic then. By the time it made it to me it was a multilayered shelf cloud and dumped over an inch of rain in my backyard specifically. Well needed for the area, but not enough to break the drought status that is ongoing.

Special thanks to the team at Wicked Weather for keeping me safe and providing me real-time updates on this storm system. Make sure you give them a follow if you haven’t already to stay informed on severe weather and storm recovery efforts around the country !

Canon EOS R
Canon EF 24mm f/1.4L USM
ISO 400 | f/2.0 | 3 second exposure

10/07/2025

It’s been one whole year since I was surprised by a G3 level solar storm while back in my hometown of South Haven, MI capturing the Draconid meteor shower and Milky Way.

The first image is actually my first test shot of the night trying to line the Milky Way core in the frame. The red area you see is a Stable Aurora Red Arc or SAR Arc. A SAR Arc is a somewhat rare form of aurora and a clear indicator of a strong geomagnetic storm. During these stronger geomagnetic storms, the earth’s magnetic field compresses and causes the charged particles to create heat. This heat makes electrons in the upper atmosphere to become superheated, causing the electrons to collide with oxygen atoms around 450 km which then creates the stable red glow. You’ll often find a SAR Arc at higher latitudes, or further south, than the main auroral band.

The second image is a panorama of 4 images stitched together in Photoshop of the main auroral band from that night. Again, this was a completely unexpected capture for me that night and I completely threw out trying to capture some of the Draconids (and yet I managed to capture some above the lighthouse in the panorama I believe). Make sure to click on that photo to see the whole image!

Canon EOS R
Canon EF 24mm f/1.4L USM

09/25/2025

Coming at you all with some exciting space news - Comet C/2025 R2 SWAN will be visible for us in the northern hemisphere provided it continues to show that it’s going to survive and not die out during a good part of October. Right now the chances of us having a viewing are pretty good and I’m confident it’ll be visible for us but will continue to monitor this and will post updates to my page!

October 4-6 we will be passing through the comet’s debris stream which means we may be treated to a brand new meteor shower! October 18-21 the comet will pass just 0.26 astronomical units from earth with the best chances for viewing around the 19th. Right now it’s predicted to be a magnitude 4 brightness, for reference Tsuchinshan-ATLAS was a 4.9 last year and is what is featured in the attached photo.

You’ll be able to find it in the western sky, near the star Sabik or the Ophiuchus constellation. If you download the free app “Sky Tonight - Stargazing Guide” you can search for the comet and it’ll point it out for you. If you have the equivalent of at least a 200 mm lens you should be able to get some decent shots of this, a decent pair of binoculars or a simple telescope should provide a somewhat close up view, and I believe this should be naked eye visible away from light pollution around the 19.

I’m looking forward to trying to capture this and hope you all get to view it as well!

Picture of Tsuchinshan-ATLAS or Comet C/2023 A3
10/14/24; near Moline, MI
Canon EOS R
Canon EF 70-200mm f/4L USM at 200mm
ISO 400 | f/4 | 8 second shutter

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