It’s been a while since I’ve posted. I’ve been working on editing books and designing book covers. I launched my first collection at the Stolen Butter Gallery. I went on a road trip. And I hauled my camera here and there to shoot storms and space launches.
There were highlights – for instance, a violent storm on August 26 that produced a stunning shelf cloud that I captured in Cocoa Beach, with the statue of champ Kelly Slater “surfing” the wave of the storm. And sometimes, even when a launch was lackluster, the skies were beautiful anyway. But the pattern this summer has strongly favored the west coast of Florida, so we haven’t had much in the way of good storms, and when we did, I was out of town for most of them.
A shelf cloud moves into Cocoa Beach, Florida, on August 26, 2022, as the Kelly Slater statue surfs the sky. ©2022 Chris Kridler, ChrisKridler.com
At the Johnstown Flood National Memorial, on the edge of where a large lake once stood until the South Fork Dam broke and caused the 1889 flood.
One of the highlights for me was visiting the Johnstown Flood National Memorial in Pennsylvania, site of the lake whose water hurtled downstream, destroying everything in its path and killing more than 2200 people, when the South Fork Dam broke in 1889.
I was entranced by the clouds’ reflection in the calm waters of the lagoon on August 27 after the rocket launch.
While we’re all awaiting the twice-delayed launch of the Artemis moon rocket, other launches have kept the skies interesting over the Space Coast. I’ll let the photos speak for themselves.
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