electric powered photography! The incredible winning images in a world storm picture contest published, from jaw-dropping lightning to outstanding tornadoes and menacing cloud ...

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talk about brilliant pictures.

These are the electrifying winners and finalists in the inaugural Storm pictures of the 12 months competition - and that they show a few of 2020's wildest weather.

there have been two categories within the contest, Photographer of the 12 months and image of the year, with entries pouring in from world wide, from the shiny lights of ny to the wilds of Australia.

u.s.a.storm chaser Scott Peake gained the image of the yr category with an attractive shot snapped near Ashby in Minnesota of a ferocious tornado on the conclusion of a rainbow.

meanwhile, Tim Baca from New Mexico claimed the Photographer of the yr award with a portfolio that judges deemed had 'plenty of compositions with subtle editing and extremely good foregrounds'.

Mike Olbinski, an Emmy-award winning photographer and filmmaker who based the Storm photos of the 12 months contest, observed that regardless of the difficult instances of 2020, the 'submissions have been awesome nonetheless [with] some completely insane captures, from close-latitude lightning bolts, amazing compositions and the raw vigour of tornadoes'. Twist your manner all the way down to see the cream of the crop... 

This graphic taken with the aid of Scott Peake close Ashby in Minnesota claimed first place in the picture of the year class. It suggests a tornado at the conclusion of a rainbow that crosses a long highway. You can make out the twister's path from correct to left because it has pulled plants from the fields

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