Video: Thunder Sky. Photo of Chris Ellington's cloud battles
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Thunder Sky constantly attracts the eyes of artists and romantics. “I love a thunderstorm in early May,” Russian poet Fyodor Tyutchev confessed in verse. An American photographer might say the same about himself. Chris Ellington (Chris Allington): Every spring, when atmospheric fronts rush to converge in annual confrontation, striking each other with lightning right into the clouds, he rushes with his camera to film the stormy sky over the American Great Plains.
The Great Plains are a colossal plateau in the United States. It stretches 3600 kilometers long and 500-800 kilometers wide, from Canada to Mexico itself. This vast steppe is America's breadbasket, but it also brings Americans a lot of misfortune: the weather here is famous for its instability, the skies “delight” with hurricanes, storms, tornadoes. It was here that the house of the girl Ellie stood, which was carried away by a tornado to the Magic Land and gave her the opportunity to meet the inhabitants of the Emerald City.
Of course, these are all fairy tales. But stormy sky really makes a fabulous impression - which is why so many photographers take the opportunity to capture unique, epic and dangerous atmospheric phenomena. However, the courage for this requires remarkable - and Chris Ellington, apparently, has it, since he dares to hunt in a car for footage from "the annual drama played out by the tornado." Meanwhile, the energy possessed by the tail of an average whip-like tornado whipping on the ground is equal to the energy of an atomic bomb. Tornadoes drink whole lakes, pouring rain of fish and frogs on people's heads, they tear out houses with foundations and break telegraph poles like toothpicks. But at the same time, it is not easy to lie in wait for a tornado: it can exist for only a couple of minutes.
The photographer himself lives in Omaha, Nebraska. During his travels in the wake of stormy sky he captures not only tornadoes, but also cumulus clouds, atmospheric fronts and other interesting events from the higher spheres. The photographs he has chosen from the colossal footage are sometimes not inferior to the beautiful and terrible photos of the eruption of the Grimsvotn volcano.
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