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Electric Photography! Storm Photos of the Year Winners Revealed

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The inaugural Storm Photos of the Year competition sparked a global response, with entries pouring in from around the world. Photographers captured the raw power and beauty of 2020’s wildest weather, making for electrifying contest winners.

The competition had two categories: Photographer of the Year and Photo of the Year. U.S. storm chaser Scott Peake claimed Photo of the Year with a stunning image of a tornado juxtaposed against a rainbow, near Ashby, Minnesota. Talk about a striking photograph!

Tim Baca from New Mexico took home the Photographer of the Year award. Judges were impressed by his portfolio’s “variety of compositions with subtle editing and great foregrounds.”

Mike Olbinski, the Emmy-award winning photographer who founded the contest, remarked on the exceptional quality of entries despite the challenges of 2020. “The submissions were mind-blowing nonetheless,” he said, “with some absolutely insane captures, from close-range lightning bolts, stunning compositions and the raw power of tornadoes.”

Prepare to be amazed as we reveal the cream of the crop from this electrifying competition!

This image, taken by Scott Peake near Ashby in Minnesota, claimed first place in the Photo of the Year category. It shows a tornado at the end of a rainbow that crosses a long road. You can make out the tornado’s path from right to left as crops have been yanked from the soil
Two intense lightning bolts land in the Hudson River, framing Manhattan’s One World Trade Center. The striking image was taken by Gary Hershorn, a finalist in the photo of the year category, from the shores of Jersey City. The judges applauded the photographer for his rare capture of ‘upward streamers’, which can be seen on the brighter strike on the right
Danijel Palcic took third place in the photo of the year category with this gorgeous shot snapped at sunset of a downburst of rain with two powerful lightning strikes hitting the coast of Croatia
George Paraskevaides captured this powerful lightning bolt hitting Nicosia in Cyprus, illuminating the whole city. The image was a finalist in the photo of the year category
Julien Stephant took this electrifying image, which was a finalist in the photo of the year category, in Genoa, Italy. It shows a ‘waterspout tornado’ moving towards an industrial port with bolts of lightning adding to the dramatic scene
Another photo taken by Scott Peake in Minnesota, this time of a powerful ‘drill-bit tornado’ leaving a cloud of debris in its path as it narrowly misses farmhouses on the right. It was a finalist in the photo of the year category
Tim Baca won the Photographer of the Year award thanks to a portfolio that judges said had ‘a variety of compositions with subtle editing and great foregrounds’. This image by Tim shows menacing clouds in the countryside west of New Cordell in Oklahoma
This incredible long-exposure image captures flashes of lightning at Cuervo in New Mexico. The photo was taken by Photographer of the Year Tim Baca. The judges said of his work: ‘Storm chasing and photographing on the fly can be difficult, but Tim managed to find gorgeous locations to place in front of some epic storms’
A monster storm brews over Sublette, Kansas, with dark thunderous shades bruising the sky and clouds swirling ominously. The unique formation was captured by Photographer of the Year Tim Baca
A rare upward lightning strike races skywards from the Seceda mountain in the Italian Dolomites. It was good enough in the judges’ eyes to make photographer Bernard Geraghty a finalist in the photo of the year category
This mesmerising image was taken by Michael Morgan outside the rural town of Maleny in Australia. It took second place in the photo of the year category. It was praised by the judges for being more like a ‘fine art photograph’ with a ‘beautiful composition of a lone tree, a grazing cow and a distant lightning bolt against a stormy sky’ 
Melanie Metz captured this rare scene of both a tornado and a rainbow. She shot the image in Dalton, Minnesota, and it was a finalist in the photo of the year category 
A lightning bolt strikes the side of a mountain in the French Pyrenees in this powerful landscape shot by finalist Maxime Daviron

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