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2008 Chase season 2008 has begun.
2007 48 sets of images, some sets have more than one page. As far as chasing, well, the good storms were pretty much over by May 5th. Much like 2006, May and June 2007 truly sucked. I messed up a lot of the early period, so my year as a whole sucked. I did get some big tornadoes March 28 though, and of course several other cool sky situations and storms. I had more fun with lightning this year than ever before and plan to continue that in 2008. With another big ice storm, an amazing fog outing, capturing lightning almost hitting Devil's Tower, intense mammatus, and a few cool storms, the year was fairly enjoyable photography-wise....even if I know I blew most of the chases(all 47 or so of them and about 22,000 miles). Well I guess I didn't miss much after early May, since there wasn't much to miss. I nailed the crappers from there on out I guess, lol. Chasing...
2006 45 sets of images.  Not a fantastic year for big supercells, that is for sure.  It was a decent year for sky photography though. Chased more this year than any other, with around 22,000 miles just chasing. 2007 is going to give it a run for its money though.
2005 32 sets of images. 2005 was a harder year but had its moments. It was nice to see my second extreme geomagnetic storm in as many years.
2004 18 sets of images. 2004 was hands down the craziest spring for storm chasers to chase during. There are rather wild looking storms in this section. I quit my job to chase all spring and have been "making a living" at this since then. I could not have picked a better year to do this in.
2003 13 sets of images. 2003 was a tough year for me personally. It was my best year up to that point, but still, I was missing out on good events. I did get a couple amazing supercells as well as my best and closest tornado encouter on May 10(in far ne MO of all places).
2002 10 sets of images. 2002 was an interesting year. I had about 30 chases and not once did I see a tornado. It wasn't because I was missing them on those days, but simply they weren't being produced anywhere(on the days I chased...mostly). 2002 was a very tight year. What it was not short of was beautiful storm structures. This would be the first year I buy a still camera. This was a pretty good move as the years to follow have had things that really begged to be shot with something higher resolution than a video camera.
2001 7 sets of images. Like in 2000 and in 2002, summer storms really saved my year. The most memorable chase of 2001 was certainly the July 16 chase.
96-2000 5 sets of images. "The rookie years" I guess. 1999 was my first chase year and I got lucky the first time out. In 2000 it took until late July before I could find a tornado again.

Want a cool coffee table book, full of insane storm structures? Here you go. This is a book made by myself and Eric Nguyen, the best storm photographer/chaser I've ever known. Just released this April. It's published by Thames and Hudson of London, one of the most respected publishers of illustrated books. It's 194 pages of storm images, from 17 individual chases, 5 of which we were both on together, though at different locations. Eric also has some hail images included and a small bit on chasing equipment. I've got a few ice-storm images, as well as auroras. Winding out the book is a 12 page section titled, "The Science of Storms" written by the one and only Chuck Doswell, a well known, respected, veteran chaser and scientist. If anyone can give you a quick, while very informative, bit of intormation on storm science...it's him. At under $20 new online, it seems like a true no brainer to me. If I had to guess, I'd guess that is about 1/5th what I spend on average each chase for gas.....usually for no storms or not very interesting ones. This has several of our highlights, from all those many miles of persuing the sky. Click the image on the right to go to Amazon(or just click HERE). Hard Cover versions available at the UK Amazon here. German version at the German Amazon here.