Brand new on my Darkroom prints page: a spectacularly moody sunrise beneath a blanket of fog in western Pennsylvania a couple weeks ago, in white-bordered poster format. Available with the rest of my best work here: connorsipephoto.darkroom.com #photography #landscape #moody #art #naturephotography

One year ago tonight was the strawberry aurora, seen here from western PA with two meteors. 2024 was wild

A year ago today: catching a supercell and the aurora from northeast Ohio without moving an inch

FRESH, piping hot music visualizer video on YouTube right now - "October Air," an ambient acoustic guitar piece I made for the FALL IN PENNSYLVANIA video. Check it out here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlQw... #originalmusic #fallfoliage #photography #naturephotography

In case you missed it, my new cinematic short film FALL IN PENNSYLVANIA is up on YouTube! Check it out here #photography #nature #fallfoliage #fallcolors #outdoors #filmmaking #landscapephotography #originalmusic #musicalscore

My latest short film FALL IN PENNSYLVANIA is live on YouTube! This is a cinematic scenic tour around central PA that I shot a couple years ago, leading up to and through peak foliage color, with new original music for a chill, ambient sound. Check it out: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-Jk...

FALL IN PENNSYLVANIA will either be posted on YouTube tonight or tomorrow night. This is my latest cinematic scenery short film featuring new original music, filmed around the mountains of central PA in 2023. I'm really excited to share this one so stay tuned #filmmaking #fall #photography #nature

A year ago today I watched the sun rise from Bear Rocks, West Virginia and it was one of the most beautiful things I've ever seen. It took me back to being a kid flipping through books about weather and Earth and looking at the pictures wondering if I could ever see things like that. #nature

A year ago tonight I was camping in the car at Bear Rocks after having an amazing day running around Blackwater Falls, Canaan Valley, and Seneca Rocks in WV, unable to check radar but seeing central Appalachia lit up with flood warnings as the wind and mist whipped around outside

Guitar is probably the hardest virtual instrument for me to work with because I didn't learn how to play or read music traditionally, the human touch greatly expands the possibilities, and I have a harder time coming up with melodies I think don't sound strange. I'm liking this project score though

It looks like my next video project will be FALL IN PENNSYLVANIA, a cinematic scenery film I've had sitting incomplete since I shot these scenes two years ago. I'm figuring out the chill, ambient sound I want for the music so we'll see how it goes #fall #naturephotography #fallfoliage #nature #art

WH: Trump wants answers that are different than the ones all the experts are giving him on autism increase

I've got a Darkroom page where prints for my absolute best photography work are available, in white-bordered poster format. Lightning, supercells, national parks, mountains, fall foliage, wildlife, aurora, everything you see and more - go check it out at the link in my profile! #photography #art

I visited the Dolly Sods and Blackwater area of West Virginia a full year ago and I haven't made a video about it yet. I plan to get a series going of informational videos using photography and more of my music exploring some of the places I've been and I might start with this

Indeed. Earlier this summer, the White House did this to me, as a scientific expert source in media, and issued a formal statement regarding my personal campaign contribution history in an attempt to discredit my commentary on wildfire, climate, and federal policy. Yet more alarm bells ringing...

Something that concerns me is that I, somebody who is trying to closely follow along with the insane political interference going on in public safety and science, didn't even know about this hearing. And if I didn't know, then how many other people don't know how crazy this all is?

Time lapse video from the aurora on Sept 14 is up, with original music: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcPL... #photography #nature #naturephotography #originalmusic #spaceweather

Sunday night's aurora from western Pennsylvania, featuring a proton influence that resulted in a strange display of strobing/flickering fuzzy green arcs ahead of the main arc. I can have a time lapse video done shortly #aurora #northernlights #naturephotography #nightskyphotography #auroraborealis

This site is miserable for me to use. Partly because it's my bad news feed for the dismantling of science and national systems, and partly because some of the speech I see from the less informed, more vitriolic crowd here reads almost exactly like the worst of their counterparts over on X

Fuzzy green aurora arc has been faintly visible from western PA for a little while

My first YouTube short hit a thousand views in a couple days and then went totally dead. I want to see if I can post clips from my bigger videos as shorts to try to get them some better viewership - there's a giant view disparity between my one tornado documentary and anything else I make

I have begun creating YouTube shorts. I want to see if posting clips from my bigger video projects as shorts can bring more people to those videos. The process is more time-intensive than I thought it would be. Lord forgive me

I feel the most inspired toward creativity in the fall. I feel the strongest urge to get outside, go see new places, and revisit old places, the weather is great if it's bright and sunny or wet and dreary, and Pennsylvania is a great place to be for it. Plus I love Halloween and horror stuff

During the faint aurora show Monday night I managed to catch two meteors, apparently from the Aurigid meteor shower. From northwest PA #aurora #nature #landscape #northernlights #astronomy #astrophotography #weather #nightsky #auroraborealis #meteor

The administration believes that AI should only be used for harmful things like surveilling the population for thought crimes and providing incorrect information for internet search queries

Faint aurora pillars and a shooting star from northwest PA ~9:15-9:25

Summer has happened

"Gold standard of science." Gold this, gold that, gold decorations in the white house, gold-encrusted ballroom, gold skyscrapers, his name in big golden letters, gold home fixtures. Gold is what you use to make something look shiny and attractive on the outside when it has no real substance.

Our comment on the DOE CWG report is done. It tips the scales at 439 pages, approx. 3x longer than the DOE report. This is related to Brandolini's law: The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it. Example: refuting one sentence.

Didn't catch any waterspouts at Erie, PA on Monday but one little cell did give me some lightning. That's two failed waterspout hunts this fall so far but both times I got something good out of it, the other being a cool new fossil for my collection. Considering going out tomorrow now

I'm always interested in unique aesthetics in storm photography and I think I got one while waterspout hunting on Lake Erie last night. A cluster of showers started producing lightning and I got this cool interaction between lightning and city lights in long exposure, I love the atmosphere of it

The full soundtrack video for Chasing the Northern Lights is up now! Five new songs from that video plus a couple older ones - cinematic orchestra, spacey synths, and blends of both, some of my absolute best work. Check it out here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1ZY... #music #photography #nature

The full soundtrack video for CHASING THE NORTHERN LIGHTS is rendering, it includes five new pieces of music and a couple others like Colors of the Cosmos Version 1. Meanwhile you can check out the visualizer video for Cosmos Version 2 here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gd8P...

A Night of Lightning and Fireflies 2 - a time lapse video from some late night lightning back on July 24 - is up on YouTube now! www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jMU...

I’ve been tossing around the idea of a second YouTube channel that I could work on from time to time where I talk about the science behind disaster movies. The Day After Tomorrow gets pretty loose with it but I still love it

A terrorist targeted federal workers last week. There wasn’t much reporting on it. But I’m not finished thinking about it! 🧵 An anti-vaxxer fired more than 500 gunshots into CDC Atlanta, shattering 150 “blast-proof” windows on 6 buildings. Employees were pinned down in terror.

I finally got around to these lightning photos from a storm coming into PA back on July 24. There was a solid striated shelf cloud as it fell apart but I could barely see it. I can put a video together soon

Here's a quick time lapse visualizer video for a piece of music I made for CHASING THE NORTHERN LIGHTS. "Colors of the Cosmos Version 2" is cinematic strings and horns and I think it's one of my best. I'd like to make more of these for my best work soon www.youtube.com/watch?v=gd8P...

No waterspouts at Lake Erie today but I did find some kind of fossil on the beach. I don’t know what it is but I’ll try to find out. I refuse to leave a chase empty-handed

Some photos from Niagara Falls on Friday! Surprisingly hard to compose a shot from the American side #niagarafalls #nature #photography #landscapephotography

I absolutely worry that some whackadoodle will do the same to an NWS or NOAA office because they have been brainwashed about chemtrails or “steering weather” or radar radiation or climate denialism or whatever.

This is a video I've been wanting to make for a while. I started writing it after the G5 aurora event on May 10, 2024 but then October proved just as spectacular. For the music I went with cinematic orchestra, spacey synthesizers, and some mixes of both. Go check it out! #nature #aurora #photography

In case you missed it, I've got a big new YouTube project up! CHASING THE NORTHERN LIGHTS, a 20-minute 4K informational recap of my experiences shooting the aurora in PA last year. It's got tons of photography, animated graphics, and a full new musical score www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wg7C...

CHASING THE NORTHERN LIGHTS in 2024 is live on YouTube! Twenty minutes of aurora photography and new original music from my experiences in PA last year. Check it out here www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wg7C...

The video goes public at 4 PM! Stay tuned

CHASING THE NORTHERN LIGHTS 2024 will most likely be uploaded tomorrow. Guys this is a big one and it's loaded with new original music, animated graphics, and a bunch of 4K aurora photography including some stuff nobody has seen before. Super excited for this to go live

I'm finishing up editing CHASING THE NORTHERN LIGHTS and I noticed that I caught the smoke trail in time lapse from this meteor in the middle of the aurora substorm. You should be able to see it in the final cut. From western PA on Oct 7, 2024

I've got a great lightning time lapse and set of photos from July 24 that I haven't even touched yet because that's how much LOVE I'm putting into this 2024 Aurora video. I think I might have the prettiest piece of music I've ever composed underscoring the grand finale

AI in the DOE report? This ref (p29) is fake: Lee, S., Byrne, M. P., Loikith, P. C., & O’Dell, C. W. (2024). Zonal contrasts of the tropical Pacific climate predicted by a global constraint. Climate Dynamics, 62(1–2), 229–246. doi:10.1007/s00382-023-06741-7 www.realclimate.org/index.php/ar...