Adventures in Tornado Alley: The Storm Chasers
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Product Description
From surreal skyscapes to wholesale destruction: the most dramatic scenes from the natural world.
The destructive power of nature has always been a source of fear and fascination, and never more so than now, when climate change and extreme weather conditions are constantly in the news. Across the central United States, the infamous storms of Tornado Alley are fueled by the collision of cold fronts from Canada and warm fronts from the Gulf of Mexico. People have been chasing these storms for decades in pursuit of thrilling experiences, but now a new generation of storm chasers is combining scientific knowledge with powerful images.
This book follows Mike Hollingshead and Eric Nguyen on seventeen chases through Colorado, Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and South Dakota, illustrating the unfolding events with sequential shots and a running commentary by the chasers themselves. These spectacular storm portfolios are expanded with special features on weather phenomena like hail and mammatus clouds plus insights into forecasting and research. 340 color illustrations.
Spotlight Customer Reviews:
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Stunning, Absolutely Stunning!!
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This book follows Mike Hollingshead and Eric Nguyen on a bunch of different storm chases covering pretty much all of Tornado Alley. Its basically a "Best Of" selection of pictures from those chases and the resulting body of work is nothing short of stunning. This is mother nature at her ugliest and at the same time her most beautiful. This body of work shows this duality amazingly well. To even try and explain the beauty of these pictures in this review is futile at best. No words can do work like this justice. Its like comparing a review of the Mona Lisa to the Mona Lisa itself. With that being said I wont bother going into any detail about the pictures themselves except to say that they are brilliant.
I am both a photographer and a storm chaser so I can appreciate first hand not only how difficult it is to obtain a lot of these photographs but also just how much time is invested in such pursuits. Most people don't realize that Storm Chasing is 98% driving/boredom and 2% crazy madness. It requires a mind boggling amount of driving and an equal amount of patience. Any average Joe can get lucky and snap some amazing shots of this type of weather if he is in the right place at the right time but to put together a body of work like this requires ambition, persistence, patience, skill, and of course a little bit of lady luck. Being an active storm chaser really puts this body of work in perspective and ultimately just makes it that much better.
Storm chasing has become insanely popular over the last 5 years and there are actually quite a few books now that focus on this subject matter. I own a lot of these books and have read many others at my local library and I can safely say that this is hands down one of the best bodies of storm pictures I have ever seen and I have seen a lot of them over the last 12 years. Unfortunately Eric passed away in 2007. Given the circumstances, this book ultimately winds up being an absolutely perfect eulogy and I for one cant think of a better way of remembering Eric than through his work.
If your interested in storm chasing or just have a love for storm pictures then this book is simply a MUST BUY. You wont find a better collection of storm related pictures period.
5 Stars and then some!!!
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Amazing Storm Photos!
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This is a great book for anyone that is a serious storm chaser...or for someone like me (someone that likes to watch storms from his living room or deck)! :-) The photos are excellent and I'm happy to say that this book is absolutely packed with great photos. There is enough text to describe the photos and the circumstances surrounding the storm, but it is NOT heavy-laden with boring text at all. Really a perfect balance.
I highly recommend this book! Buy it, you won't be disappointed.
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Photos are wonderful
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Being an amateur storm chaser, this book was an excellent depiction of what I want to see. With only a couple storms under my belt and some okay tornado/ mesocyclone pictures, this book let me see what years of storm chasing could bring.
I enjoyed the photos very much and some of the descriptions about the storms as well.
If you like energized storms, you may want to consider this book for your library.
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good book
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An easy to read book with several relatively short narratives on chasing storms and other events. Included were some great pictures while others were a little disappointing-strictly because of the nature of the book.
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Its about time
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Im so glad that Mike is finally getting the recognition he deserves. I started hanging out on his website when I was going to college at Dana in Blair several years ago, and you can see his photography and tracking skills grow over the years. The pics in this book + the commentary take what you have seen every summer and bring it down to you in a way that a straight science text can never do. Kudo's, Mike.
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