Alex Resel 📸

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📸 Photographer 🌪️ Storm chaser 🌌 Aurora hunter 📍 South Dakotan 🪪 Licensing options through SevereStudios 🎞️ Check out my work: alexreselwx.com

My digital shot of an EF5 tornado near Enderlin, North Dakota on the night of June 20, 2025.
Photo of a tall, backlit, and violent stovepipe tornado lifting debris in the air over a road and cornfields west of Watertown, South Dakota on July 27, 2025.
Tornado over a prairie hill west of Gary, SD on June 28, 2025.
Supercell with wedge tornado near Essex, Iowa on April 17, 2025.
Close range CG (cloud-to-ground) lightning bolt down a country road north of Norfolk, Nebraska on March 28, 2025.
Bright aurora borealis with a variety of green, pink, red, and purple colors over a rural landscape near Watertown, South Dakota on March 21, 2025.
Large wedge tornado and mesocyclone above as it approaches West Plains, Missouri on the night of March 14, 2025. Violent motion and an extremely loud roar was observed.
Tornado as it first formed southeast of Watertown, South Dakota - 4:11 pm (2/24/2025)
Photo of overhead aurora with a sky full of pink, purple, and green auroras with a prairie church as the subject surrounded by trees with a walkway leading up to the entrance of the church. Photo captured near Watertown, South Dakota on May 10, 2024.
Aurora borealis along the horizon with a train track and gravel road in foreground as well as a barn and silo in the middle ground. Captured near Watertown, South Dakota on January 4, 2025.
Collage of 20 photos I captured in 2024. Photos include bright, vivid auroras, a total solar eclipse, storm clouds, tornadoes, a wolf, moose, Milky Way, and a comet. All in random order.
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Video of a snow falling after sunset in a parking lot with streetlights.
Sundog over a rural snow covered field, a farm building, and trees after sunrise in Watertown, SD on December 11, 2024.
Variety of color of light pillars at this airport in the distance. December 11, 2024.
A tornado crossing a road with storm chasers positioning ahead of it just before sunset in rural northern South Dakota. Photo captured on August 28, 2024 near the town of Mound City.
Light pillars shining high behind a grove of trees and hay bales in the rural countryside of South Dakota. Wind blown snow and very cold temperatures made for a great display of light refractions. Shot near Watertown, SD on December 4, 2024.
Photo of a grungy, large tornado spinning through farmland and rural communities in western Iowa. A lone storm chaser on a main road behind the tornado drives to get closer to the tornado as a water tower indicating a nearby town dodges narrowly close by. Near Harlan, Iowa on April 26, 2024.
Video of heavy snowfall with holiday decorations under a streetlight in downtown Watertown, South Dakota.
Tornado photo on phone lock screen
Photo of greens and pinks of the aurora borealis combining over an abandoned prairie church in northeast South Dakota on October 7, 2024.
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Photo of a supercell thunderstorm over orange/brown landscape and an abandoned building near Lubbock, Texas on May 17, 2021.
Photo of a total solar eclipse (moon completely blocking the sun) with corona visible near Poplar Bluff, Missouri on April 8, 2024.
Photo of a snowy scene at a truck stop in Watertown, South Dakota on December 15, 2022 with a line of semi trucks stranded as blizzard conditions overtake a person walking in front of a semi with its headlights on.
A photo of a low precipitation (LP) supercell spinning graciously over rural Texas landscape. The brown landscape with the collapsed abandoned farm building provides a stark color contrast to the gray clouds spinning above. Photo captured near Lubbock, Texas on May 17, 2021.
Photo of bright aurora borealis with vivid reds at the top of the image and greens underneath. The water tower stands alone providing perspective as the aurora borealis shines brightly over rural South Dakota countryside. Photo captured near Watertown, South Dakota on October 7, 2024.
Photo of the greens and purples of the aurora borealis over a cemetery with white gravestones in Drayton, North Dakota on November 3, 2021.
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Photo of a large wedge tornado ripping up dirt and debris as it tears through the eastern side of Minden, Iowa as an EF3 tornado. There is brown dirt being picked up and showing itself with the tornado as the dark, menacing tornado moves closer to me. Shot looking south from I-80 north of Minden, Iowa on April 26, 2024.
Photo of a total solar eclipse. The moon is nearly completely covered the bright sun forming a “black hole” with sunlight around it. The bright light from the sun casts a “diamond ring” effect. Photo captured on April 8, 2024 near Poplar Bluff, Missouri.
A strong tornado spinning over rural South Dakota farmland. The dark contrast of the tornado adds a menacing effect with bright, golden farmland in the foreground ahead of its path with transmission towers providing scale to this tornado. Photo captured on August 28, 2024 near Mound City, South Dakota.
Photo of Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS over an old, ravaged windmill sitting in a quiet prairie grassland in South Dakota. The moonlight casts a subtle light onto the landscape highlighting details in the foreground. Photo captured in northeast South Dakota on 10/20/24.
A dramatic supercell thunderstorm with striated structure in the clouds. Dust from open farmland is being carried into the storm as it rotates before producing a dusty tornado. Captured on August 8, 2023 near Yuma, Colorado.
A supercell thunderstorm with striated texture in the clouds as a tornado develops on the left side of the photo. The prairie grasses alongside an open country road provides perspective of the large thunderstorm looming above. Shot captured on June 10, 2021 in western North Dakota.
Aurora borealis over a prairie church in northeast South Dakota on May 10, 2024.
Aurora borealis over an abandoned church in northeast South Dakota on October 7, 2024.
Supercell thunderstorm near Baker, Montana on June 19, 2023.
Supercell thunderstorm near Malta, Montana on June 9, 2021.
Aurora borealis over Watertown, SD on October 10, 2024.
A Comet, Aurora, Tornado, Supercell, Rainbow and Lightning all captured across South Dakota. Circa 2024.
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