Mitch Dobrowner:

Landscape photographers count ourselves lucky to be in the right place at the right time if a storm system is moving through -- but I wanted to actively pursue these events. In July 2009 Roger Hill (regarded as the most experienced storm-chaser in the world) and I tracked a severe weather system for nine hours -- from its formation outside of Sturgis, South Dakota, through Badlands National Park and into Valentine, Nebraska. Eventually we stopped in a field outside of Valentine, and there we stood in awe of the towering supercell (a thunderstorm with a deep rotating updraft) which was building with intake wind gusts of 60mph. It was like standing next to a 65,000-foot-high vacuum cleaner.

Words are inadequate to describe the experience of photographing this immense power and beauty. And the most exciting part is with each trip I really don't know what to expect. But now I see these storms as living, breathing things. They are born when the conditions are right, they gain strength as they grow, they fight against their environment to stay alive, they change form as they age... and eventually they die. They take on so many different aspects, personalities and faces; I'm in awe watching them. These storms are amazing sights to witness ... and I'm just happy to be there -- shot or no shot; it's watching Mother Nature at her finest. My only hope my images can do justice to these amazing phenomenona of nature.

Charles Mudede:

When we see a beautiful cloud passing by, sometimes it is best just to live in and then leave that moment forever.

An exchange:

Ernie: Is there anything fluffier than a cloud?

Big Tom: If there is, I don't want to know about it.

David Lynch:

So many things these days are made to look at later. Why not just have the experience and remember it?

Andrea de Majewski:

The cloud channel has several advantages over regular TV ... It's very relaxing. One reason for this is that there are no ads. No one tries to sell you anything at all on the cloud channel.

Ian Malcolm:

You stood on the shoulders of geniuses to accomplish something as fast as you could and before you even knew what you had you patented it and packaged it and slapped it on a plastic lunchbox, and now you're selling it, you want to sell it!