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Connor Sipe
@paweatherphoto.bsky.social
Severe storm and nature photographer from western PA. (🌪2) Earth Science and Climatology, PSU '24. PAweather on YouTube. It's the wonder of nature, baby.
https://connorsipephoto.darkroom.com/
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If you like my work, take a look at my main photography prints page: my very best work from over the years, with a formal poster presentation. Lightning, mountains, national parks, supercell storms, and more. Check out my Darkroom store page here connorsipephoto.darkroom.com
This year has been tough for me but my YouTube projects (and the book for that matter) have been getting me through it. I want to say thank you to everyone who watches and stay tuned because there's more stuff on the way that I'm excited about
December 7, 2025 at 3:39 AM
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Y'all the latest episode of the #Kilauea #eruption just went CRAZY. It looks like pressure built up enough to explode out the ground around the two existing vents (first few seconds), leading to a massive surge in lava fountaining.🌋🤯

USGS Live stream: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiyt...
December 6, 2025 at 8:01 PM
If you're looking for a holiday gift for the storm chaser in your life, might I suggest TORNADO COUNTRY: The History of Oklahoma's Violent Weather, an extensively researched chronology of how science took on nature's fury.

Available in paperback from Blurb (link in comments)
#indieauthor #science
December 6, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Does anyone remember back in March when Trump tried to throw out USIP by EO but didn't have the authority so he had DOGE buy out the security contractor and send guys into the building to go straight to the armory inside and initiate a lockdown www.asisonline.org/security-man...
December 4, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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🧵10 YEARS OF PHOTOGRAPHY - 100 Favorite Photos Countdown
96. Lightning and fireflies, PA, 2025
95. Geminid meteor shower, PA, 2023
94. Lightning strike, PA, 2019
93. Colton Point State Park, PA, 2024
#photography #nature #stormchasing #outdoors #art #astrophotography #landscape
December 2, 2025 at 10:33 PM
🧵10 YEARS OF PHOTOGRAPHY - 100 Favorite Photos Countdown
100. Comet A3, western PA, 2024
99. Supercell with lightning blitz, PA, 2016
98. Kansas stormscape, 2016
97. Rainy sunburst, PA, 2018
#photography #nature #stormchasing #outdoors #art #naturephotography #landscape
December 2, 2025 at 1:07 AM
At the end of this year I'll have been shooting storms and landscapes for ten years. Throughout December I'll be counting down my 100 favorite photos I've ever taken - supercell storms, lightning, aurora, solar eclipse, national parks, mountains, fall colors, wildlife, and more
#photography #art
December 1, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Something occurred to me this week that I've been photographing storms and nature for ten years. I'm amazed to look back and see everything I've experienced with my camera in that time. I feel like I should do some special YouTube project to recap my coolest stuff
#photography #art #nature #outdoors
November 29, 2025 at 1:51 AM
A couple newer edits from my trip to West Virginia last fall, from Seneca Rocks and the summit of Bear Rocks / Dolly Sods. I've got a video on that in the works
#photography #art #nature #outdoors #appalachia #naturephotography #landscapephotography #publiclands #westvirginia
November 27, 2025 at 4:57 AM
I had a dastardly idea while working on my next photographic weather history video. For UNPREDICTABLE I was able to put together some animated graphics and photoshopped storm images, but for this one there's a couple scenes I envision that I just can't get that way

But I can sketch them 😏
November 27, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Prime Video replaced their digital copy of Twister with the new 4K restoration version from last year and I think it kinda looks like garbage
November 26, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Boys and girls, when I tell you that we are gonna be clocking in to the YouTube FACTORY the next few months you best believe it. You are not even ready for these projects I've got coming down the pipe, I am talking about harnessing every creative fiber in my body. Photos related
November 24, 2025 at 2:44 AM
It's national take a hike day! Other terms for going outside that are also dismissive insults are "get lost" and "go touch grass"
#outdoors #nature #nationalparks #photography #art #naturephotography #publiclands #landscape
November 18, 2025 at 1:41 AM
The channel is for aurora now
November 15, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Wednesday night's aurora from northeast Ohio once the clouds finally broke, a consolation prize for missing the big one the night before. At 18mm those were some serious pillars during substorms
#aurora #northernlights #spaceweather #photography #art #nature #naturephotography #stormchasing
November 14, 2025 at 11:50 PM
I'm seeing lightning signatures pop up on Nexlab GOES kinda evenly distributed around the northeast and mid-Atlantic in areas with clear weather, I wonder if that's an effect of the geomagnetic storm
November 12, 2025 at 5:20 AM
Man, this part-time job I landed turned out to be really really part-time. On a related note, all these photos and more are available as prints in the 2025 Collection on my Pixels/FAA page here: 3-connor-sipe.pixels.com/collections/...

#photography #nature #stormchasing #outdoors #fallfoliage
November 9, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Some fall colors managing to pop at Goddard State Park in western PA back on October 26 into the evening
#fallcolors #fallfoliage #nature #naturephotography #landscape #photography
November 6, 2025 at 1:19 AM
All those big tough defenders of America with their tear gas and tactical gear had to make sure the guy standing around doing nothing was subdued before they could move in
It’s clear who the aggressors are. Keep remaining nonviolent, and record EVERYTHING. All of these masked ICE thugs will be held accountable.
November 4, 2025 at 6:16 AM
I'm considering some dramatic reading YouTube videos with excerpts from my self-published book, TORNADO COUNTRY: The History of Oklahoma's Violent Weather.

I picture some original music and sound effects but I have no idea if it would attract any viewership.
November 2, 2025 at 2:00 AM
For Halloween I want to shout out one of my big early influences toward nature photography from when I was a kid, the game Slender: The Arrival. It's a horror game from years ago but I still think about the mountain and forest scenery when I shoot and edit landscapes
November 1, 2025 at 3:18 AM
My spookiest photos, I'm on Halloween until December 5 at least

#halloween #fall #fallvibes #art #photography #nature #landscapephotography #spooky
October 31, 2025 at 9:50 PM
I've started writing the follow-up video to UNPREDICTABLE: The Pennsylvania Tornadoes of 1985, on a related local weather history subject. I want to give it as much effort as the first one, including expanding on the original musical score, digital recreations, and the works
October 28, 2025 at 1:42 AM
October 26, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Some more from a rainy day in Cook Forest, PA

#photography #fallfoliage #fallcolors #fallvibes
October 25, 2025 at 1:46 AM