Stunning Images from the 2017 Weather Photographer of the Year Competition

Amazing, unique perspectives on clouds, lightning, rain and snow.

September 17, 2017 5:00 am
Weather Photographer of the Year 2017
Superstrike (Mike Olbinski)

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.

Weather Photographer of the Year 2017
Misty Corfe (Mik Dogherty)
Mik Dogherty
Weather Photographer of the Year 2017
Little Church on the Prairie (Craig Boehm)
Weather Photographer of the Year 2017
Frozen (Laurie Reed)
Weather Photographer of the Year 2017
Lightning across the bay (Alex Ponniah)
Weather Photographer of the Year 2017
The Katie/Wynnewood Tornado (Mike Olbinski)
Mike Olbinski
Weather Photographer of the Year 2017
Flatiron Building in the blizzard (Michele Palazzo)
Michele Palazzo
Weather Photographer of the Year 2017
Monster from the deep (Paul Kingston)
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Weather Photographer of the Year 2017
Superstrike (Mike Olbinski)
Weather Photographer of the Year 2017
Winter Woolies (Paul Kingston)
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Weather Photographer of the Year 2017
Excitement in the sky (Fedor Lashkov)
LASHKOV FEDOP
Weather Photographer of the Year 2017
The Greatness of Heaven (Akimova Olga Akimova)
Weather Photographer of the Year 2017
City Life in Rains (Debarshi Mukherjee)
Weather Photographer of the Year 2017
Bled in Blizzard (Kasia Nowak)
Weather Photographer of the Year 2017
Lightning as the Sun Rises (Paul Jacobs)
Weather Photographer of the Year 2017
Rain in the desert (Daniel Winter)
Daniel winter- Art photo
Weather Photographer of the Year 2017
Fogbow, Rannoch Moor, Scotland (Melvin Nicholson)
Weather Photographer of the Year 2017
Tropical Samos (Manolis Thravalos)
Weather Photographer of the Year 2017
Crosthwaite Church (Steve Oldfield)
Steve Oldfield
Weather Photographer of the Year 2017
Minnesota shelf cloud (John Finney)
John Finney
Weather Photographer of the Year 2017
Autumnal fog (Paul Kingston)
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