What do you do when a storm wakes you up at night? Obviously, you grab your camera and start taking pictures.
These images were made seven years apart, in August 2018 and May 2025.
Photographing storms from my bedroom
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It was just perfect
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There's a light down the road. I pass by it almost every day, and most times I'll snap a picture of two. I've seen it in all conditions: sunny and clear, stormy and rainy, white and snowy. I thought I'd seen all this place had to offer... until a couple of days ago. It felt like I'd just walked into a movie. It didn't look real. It was so beautiful... just perfect.
El Camino: a 130-mile solo winter adventure
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El Camino, a 130-mile solo winter adventure. I had to face countless challenges including 3 winter storms that brought plenty of water, wind, snow and ice. I had to fight my own mind and push my body. I had to deal with the problems of finding places to sleep and eat during winter.
Last week I went on an adventure that I won't be forgetting any time soon. I walked 130 miles in 6 days, fighting not only my body and mind but also the elements: 3 big storms hit the region and I got plenty of rain, wind, snow and ice.
I wanted to document this journey and the moview "El Camino" is the result. Definitely my most ambitious (and longest) movie to date.
If you are thinking about doing El Camino in winter, don't miss my post How to do El Camino de Santiago in winter.
Photographing a storm
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I really didn't want to wake up, it was still early and I needed the sleep if I wanted to catch the sunrise as I had planned. But the storm insisted, getting louder and the lightning more often and brighter. It was relatively close and the whole bedroom would light up.
Bye, sunrise. I got up and set up the camera. The storm moved away quickly, but before it did, I was able to get a couple of good shots.
Read MoreHikers caught in a snowstorm, Mt Hood, December 2016
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Camera and Lens: Sony A7II, 28-70mm f/3.5-5.6 kit lens
Settings: 70mm, ISO 500, f/5.6, 1/80sec
I don't know what I was thinking that day. From Timberline Lodge, I started walking up, and up. It was cloudy, but otherwise a nice day.
When I was close to Palmer lift, at around 8,500ft, the weather started to change: the clouds I had been photographing a while ago reached all of us up there, and it was like being in the middle of a blizzard.
Luckily, it's easy to find your way back from there, and after just a few minutes walking the weather got back to calm.
But in the middle of all of that, I got this image of two hikers coming back down to safety.