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22/08/2026

Raining in August ???

31/03/2026

Dog-leg lightning!!

Captured this a couple of weeks ago just after sunset when the sky was still glowing and the storm was just getting started. That mix of soft sunset colours and raw storm energy is what makes moments like this unreal.

This "dog-leg" bolt shows how lightning doesn't travel in a straight line it branches and bends as it searches for the easiest path through the air. Add the pastel sky behind it, and suddenly chaos looks pretty damn beautiful.

23/03/2026

Turning night into daylight in a single breath!!

Anvil Crawler lightning, one of my absolute favourites to photograph and just sit back and watch all night. The way it crawls across the sky and lights everything up... for a moment, night feels like day.

Unedited, straight out of the camera

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10/03/2026

Fireworks on drugs in town.......

This happened last night 9 March 2026 at around 7:05pm. What made it even more special was that it was visible to the naked eye. I was incredibly lucky to witness it with my own eyes. It lasted only a blink of a second before disappearing.

At the moment I still can't say exactly what type of TLE it was. Cloud cover was blocking the top of the storm, so the origin point of the jet isn't visible in the image. Because of that it's difficult to confirm what we're looking at.

I reached out to TLE expert, master of the TLE's , and according to him This could be a Palm Tree, or possibly a secondary jet, but without seeing the cloud top it's hard to say."
Huge thanks to Paul for taking a look and sharing his thoughts. For now this one might have to remain a bit of a mystery... with a big question mark.

Most of this season l've been away for work, and while I was gone my mate .by.jj managed to capture heaps of TLEs and of course he loved rubbing it in. But finally I got my chance for a little payback.

He headed off yesterday morning to visit his Kimberley special in Halls Creek princess for a week, and then this happened last night. I rang him straight away and showed him the shot... safe to say the poor bu**er didn't get much sleep after that.
Thanks as well to Ju for helping try to identify it.

The Kimberley sky never stops surprising us.

08/03/2026

Blue Jet Through the Clouds!
After nearly a month without a single decent storm or lightning event in the Kimberley, thanks to the lingering tropical low. it's been a pretty quiet and frustrating time for us storm chasers.
Last night, though, something finally sparked a bit of excitement.

A distant storm far on the horizon produced this blue jet, a rare type of Transient Luminous Event (TLE) that shoots upward from the top of a thunderstorm into the upper atmosphere.

Unfortunately, the excitement didn't last long. As we started shooting, the clouds rolled in and had different plans, quickly blocking the view.
You can actually see in the image how the jet begins to fade behind the cloud layer. Cloud cover has been one of the biggest challenges this season when trying to capture TLEs timing and clear skies have been hard to come by.

Still, this single shot capture was worth the wait.
Hopefully the next few weeks bring clearer skies and more storms so we can chase a few more of these incredible upper atmospheric events.

25/02/2026

Fire in the Sky!!!

It's been quiet since October thanks to tropical lows clogging up the Kimberley skies. With the season nearly done, I'm hoping for a few clear nights to catch more red sprites and other TLEs before storm season wraps up.

18/02/2026

Golden Hour vs Mother Nature!

CORROCTION……. According to the professional weather photographer i was wrong about mentioning this as a supercelll. It’s just a cloud not a supercell . Apologies for confusing.

I arrived late to the party and had seconds to fire off a pano before it hit. The adrenaline + rushing the settings cost me a bit of sharpness but the colours and structure were too wild not to share.

Supercells are the most organised and powerful type of thunderstorm, capable of producing large hail, destructive winds, intense lightning and, in the right conditions, tornadoes.this one was all drama, zero chill.

11/02/2026

Storms don't just flash sometimes they bloom flower 🌸 ⚡️

Not Sith lightning, just the sky choosing a path.
When there's a massive voltage difference between a lightning channel and the surrounding air, a coronal discharge forms.

High energy "runaway" electrons rip through the air, ionising it and turning it conductive. This creates those eerie blue purple, brush like "fingers" at the tip of a lightning channel, the part that looks like Sith lightning reaching out into the sky.

This is how lightning actually finds its way.
Multiple tiny ionised tendrils probe the air at once, and whichever one finds the easiest path forward becomes the main lightning channel. The rest fade away. The whole decision making process happens in microseconds, faster than our eyes can track.
These structures are insanely hard to capture because they're stupid fast. They're best seen in slow motion but my clip not good enough to see more details of it.

02/02/2026

When the Moon Watched the Storm Breathe!!

Last night storm put on an incredible display over the Kimberley, with frequent lightning and several red sprites flashing high above the clouds.
A bright full moon combined with dense cloud cover wasn't ideal for observing sprites, but it beautifully illuminated the storm structure and enhanced the colours in the sky.

Stay tuned, l've captured plenty more sprites and blue jets on video, coming up next.

28/01/2026

Front row seat to Mother Nature's theatre.
Shelf cloud rolling in, lightning cracking, rain about to hammer down and me pretending I'm not terrified.

Taken last Monday, just minutes before this shelf cloud rolled through. It dumped heavy rain, fired off heaps of lightning bolts and crawlers and turned the sky into absolute chaos.

I don't usually post myself, but I couldn't resist this one and no, you're not allowed to stare at the chicken legs I love how the colours and contrast came together in this shot.
Moments like this are exactly why I chase storms.

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