There’s a lot of luck involved when you’re chasing monsoon storms in Arizona during July or August. This was taken on a very frustrating day when I kept missing everything. When I thought it was all over, I called it a night. I was taking a shower when I heard the rumbling and I rushed to the window. I had washed the sand out of my teeth and ears, from being in the stormy desert all day, and I didn’t want to go back out, so I thought: “I’m just going to take a shot from my motel room.”
I fancy myself as an artist but Mother Nature does all the work. If there’s a tornado on a flat horizon, how do you make that artistic? It’s something I constantly struggle with. Maybe you capture the flowers bending into it. But ultimately you just go: “Click, got it.” So any time I can do something different, like this, is rewarding.
