The Royal Meteorological Society and The Royal Photographic Society have announced the shortlist for the 2017 Weather Photographer of the Year, and the pictures are phenomenal. Almost 2,000 photographers submitted from over 60 countries, reports the International Business Times.
The call for the 2017 competition was for photos “depicting weather from around the world showing weather phenomena such as clouds, lightning, rain, fog or snow, and the impact of weather on mankind, cities and the natural landscape,” according to IBT. The entries were judged anonymously.
The Weather Photographer of the Year exhibition will go on tour around the U.K. during 2017 and 2018, but check out some of the images below.
Misty Corfe (Mik Dogherty)
Mik Dogherty
Little Church on the Prairie (Craig Boehm)
Frozen (Laurie Reed)
Lightning across the bay (Alex Ponniah)
The Katie/Wynnewood Tornado (Mike Olbinski)
Mike Olbinski
Flatiron Building in the blizzard (Michele Palazzo)
Michele Palazzo
Monster from the deep (Paul Kingston)
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Superstrike (Mike Olbinski)
Winter Woolies (Paul Kingston)
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Excitement in the sky (Fedor Lashkov)
LASHKOV FEDOP
The Greatness of Heaven (Akimova Olga Akimova)
City Life in Rains (Debarshi Mukherjee)
Bled in Blizzard (Kasia Nowak)
Lightning as the Sun Rises (Paul Jacobs)
Rain in the desert (Daniel Winter)
Daniel winter- Art photo
Fogbow, Rannoch Moor, Scotland (Melvin Nicholson)
Tropical Samos (Manolis Thravalos)
Crosthwaite Church (Steve Oldfield)
Steve Oldfield
Minnesota shelf cloud (John Finney)
John Finney
Autumnal fog (Paul Kingston)
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