While most people head for cover at the first sign of a storm this man runs straight towards it.
Father-of-three, Mike Olbinski, is addicted to photographing extreme weather and regularly takes on tornadoes and supercell thunderstorms in a bid to capture extraordinary images.
The photographer, from Phoenix, Arizona, will often travel hundreds of miles a day to reach the eye of a storm and first became hooked on the unusual hobby almost a decade ago.
A monster supercell thunderstorm begins to cross Highway 385 south of Lamar, Colorado. It is one of a series of striking photographs taken by storm-chaser Mike Olbinski
Mr Olbinski poses for a selfie beneath an apocalyptic sky. The father-of-three will often travel hundreds of miles a day to reach the eye of a storm
A lightning bolt at the Grand Canyon hits the top of one of the little island plateaus on the eastern side as seen from Navajo Point
This picture, taken in August, shows a stunning monsoon sunset coupled with intense lightning creating an amazing scene
A powerful, EF4 tornado spins through the small rural community of Katie, Oklahoma, in May 2016. EF4 is the category for tornadoes likely to cause ‘extreme damage’
A rainbow shines next to a lightning bolt in this amazing snap taken southeast of St. David, Arizona, in July this year
This aggressive photograph was taken during a 45-minute lightning show in Tonopah, Nevada, in August 2015
And his hard work has culminated in a striking series of breath-taking pictures of nature lashing out from apocalyptic skies.
Mr Olbinski said: ‘I’ve been in love with storms and weather for as long as I can remember.
‘I grew up in Arizona and our summer monsoon thunderstorms were always glorious with heavy rains and lightning. I’d sit on the back porch with my dad watching the storms, or sitting up late with my brother looking out our windows.
‘I’ve always enjoyed storms and as life went on, I got addicted to watching radar and praying for storms to hit my house or wherever I happened to be.
‘Around the time my daughter was born, 2008, I had become obsessed with looking at lightning photography.
‘I took my point-and-shoot outside during a storm one day and caught a couple of really bad images of lightning.
‘My third time out, however, I captured a crazy good lightning strike and I was hooked.
‘When I’m out chasing tornadoes and supercells, those are the monster storms that really get you pumped.
‘I’ve been on storms the moment that they erupt from a mostly blue sky to a monster supercell in under an hour.
Car lights stretch beneath a lightning storm captured from an overpass in Marsh Station, Arizona, in August this year
A gorgeous dust storm and low level clouds roll into downtown Phoenix, Arizona, in July 2014
Multiple fork lightning bolts hits the Superstition Mountains in this dramatic photograph taken in Apache Junction, Arizona
A beautiful purple and orange sky drifts over a deserted rural landscape in this snap taken in Bowden, North Dakota, in June
A huge positive strike lands well away from the precipitation core of this storm over the Grand Canyon, slamming into the plateau near Grand Canyon Village, Arizona
An impressive and powerful supercell storm pictured northwest of Booker, Texas, in June 2013
‘The excitement at watching the birth of a storm and then chasing it for up to 100 miles is just more than words can describe sometimes.
‘It’s what I live for.’
‘For me as a photographer, I like to be close, but I also need to stay out of the rain and craziness to capture what I’m after. So usually I’m not right in the major danger path.
‘But I have been caught in a severe hail storm that blasted my truck with 70mph wind and golf ball sized stones with zero visibility.
‘I’ve been in the path of oncoming tornadoes. I try to be safe though. As a father of three kids, I want to get home to them afterwards and that’s always on my mind.’