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Chris Kridler is a videographer, photographer, editor and writer. She is an award-winning journalist with more than 20 years of experience whose videos have appeared on numerous television shows. She won the Best Documentary award at the 2011 Melbourne Independent Filmmakers Festival.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off beyond Cape Canaveral Lighthouse in Florida in this timelapse video shot September 10, 2022. Video (c) 2022 by Chris Kridler, ChrisKridler.com. Music licensed from Pond5.
10 September 2022: SpaceX launch at the lighthouse
This timelapse video shows a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launch from Cape Canaveral on September 4, 2022. Video ©2022 by Chris Kridler. Music licensed from Pond5.
4 September 2022: SpaceX launch from Cape Canaveral
Offshore lightning storms sparked as the full moon rose over the Indian River Lagoon on July 14, 2022. This timelapse video captures the magic of the light, the reflections and even small planes zooming around the storms. See more photos from this mini storm chase with Alethea Kontis at Chris Kridler's site, ChrisKridler.com. Video (c) 2022 by Chris Kridler. Music "Convergence of Clouds" licensed from Pond5.
14 July 2022: Magical moonrise and lightning storms
Adorable prairie dogs frolic, munch on wildflowers, enjoy family time and look out for noisy tourists at the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge in Oklahoma. I shot this video during a break in storm chasing on May 20, 2022. Video (c) 2022, Chris Kridler, ChrisKridler.com. Music licensed from Pond5.
Prairie dog playtime! Adorable critters frolic in the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge
Chris Kridler and Alethea Kontis saw beautiful skies on May 20, 2022, but it was a minimalist storm chase. Still, it was atmospheric as only Texas can be. Video ©2022 by Chris Kridler, ChrisKridler.com. Music licensed from Pond5.
20 May 2022: Texas blues - a storm chase mostly about the sunset
A beautiful cluster of Florida lightning storms filled the western night sky as the moon set on August 1, 2022. Timelapse and images. Filmed from Rockledge, Florida. Music licensed from Pond5.
1 August 2022: Florida lightning storm fills the night sky
Chris and Alethea had one of the best storm chases of the season on May 18, 2022, of a beautiful supercell through the Texas Panhandle. See more images at ChrisKridler.com. Video (c) 2022 by Chris Kridler, ChrisKridler.com. Music licensed from Pond5.
18 May 2022: Sublime supercell chase in the Texas Panhandle
May 17, 2022, brought Alethea Kontis and Chris Kridler to northern Kansas to chase a line of storms that were prodigious lightning producers. Video (c) 2022 by Chris Kridler, ChrisKridler.com. Music licensed from FootageFirm.
17 May 2022: Kansas zap fest - an electrifying lightning chase
This timelapse shows the launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with a cargo capsule destined for the International Space Station on July 14, 2022, from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Video (c) 2022 by Chris Kridler, ChrisKridler.com. Music licensed from FootageFirm.
14 July 2022: SpaceX Cargo Dragon launch from Cape Canaveral
See a flock of beautiful zebra longwing butterflies fluttering in the morning sun in slow motion on a hot day in Florida, where it's the state butterfly. Video (c) 2022 by Chris Kridler. Music licensed from FootageFirm.
Butter-flight of the zebra longwings: slow-motion butterflies
Beautiful cloud timelapses are the highlight of this video as we visit Storybook Land and The Land of Oz in Aberdeen, South Dakota, and drive across the state to the Badlands. Video (c) 2022 by Chris Kridler, ChrisKridler.com. Music licensed from Pond5.
13 May 2022: Storybook Land, The Land of Oz and the clouds of South Dakota
A roundabout storm chase brought Chris and Alethea from Iowa to Minnesota to Wisconsin on May 9, 2022, where we saw spinning supercells and lightning. Video (c) 2022 by Chris Kridler. Music licensed from FootageFirm.
9 May 2022: Midwest madness storm chase from Iowa to Minnesota to Wisconsin
In this lovely three-minute documentary, see the big, beautiful flowers known as night-blooming cereus open up in timelapse footage accompanied by images and video that explain how these little miracles come to be. I film these flowers almost every year; this video includes not just 2022 footage but highlights of previous years. Video (c) 2022 by Chris Kridler. Music licensed from Pond5.
FLOWER FIREWORKS: Night-Blooming Cereus
As a lightning storm flashes in the distance over the ocean, SpaceX launches a Globalstar communications satellite from Cape Canaveral early on June 19, 2022, on a Falcon 9 rocket. This colorful timelapse was filmed with a GoPro at Port Canaveral, Florida. Video ©2022 by Chris Kridler; music licensed from FootageFirm.
19 June 2022: SpaceX rocket launch and distant lightning storm
Pool parties were a centerpiece of the 2022 Hukilau tiki gathering in Pompano Beach, Florida. Here's a timelapse shot during one afternoon there - June 11, 2022. Video © by Chris Kridler, ChrisKridler.com. Music licensed from Pond5.
11 June 2022: Hukilau Pool Party - a groovy timelapse
Chris and Alethea see the end of their storm chase in sight as they cross the Mississippi River again on the way home. Video (c) Chris Kridler (chriskridler.com) with Alethea Kontis (aletheakontis.com).
25 May 2022: Storm chasing update - leaving Tornado Alley
Chris and Alethea explore sights on the road in Texas on the eve of another storm chase, including the U Drop Inn on Route 66 in Shamrock, the famous intersection from "Cast Away," and the leaning water tower of Groom. Video and images (c) Chris Kridler (chriskridler.com) and Alethea Kontis (aletheakontis.com). Music licensed from FootageFirm.
22 May 2022: Route 66, 'Cast Away' intersection and a tippy tower between the storms
This short video gives you a sense of the peaceful scene at Carhenge, an art installation in Alliance, Nebraska - a homage to Stonehenge made of old cars. This is a favorite stop when we're storm chasing in this area. Video (c) 2022 by Chris Kridler, ChrisKridler.com
8 May 2022: Mystic moments of peace at Carhenge in Nebraska
Storm chasers Chris Kridler and Alethea Kontis add twine to the world's largest ball of twine in Cawker City, Kansas, experience trains up close, and film a beautiful, mellow storm over Nebraska's Lake McConaughy. Video (c) Chris Kridler, ChrisKridler.com; music licensed from FootageFirm
7 May 2022: Twine, trains and storms from Kansas to Nebraska
During a break from chasing storms, Alethea Kontis and I took a few minutes to observe the flower moon total eclipse in totality from the top of a mountain in western South Dakota. Video ©2022 by Chris Kridler; music licensed from FootageFirm
15 May 2022: Flower moon total lunar eclipse from western South Dakota
The strange 2022 storm-chasing sojourn of Chris Kridler and Alethea Kontis continues with sights in western South Dakota in between the storms - including a sun halo over Mount Rushmore. Video (c) Chris Kridler; additional images (c) Alethea Kontis. See more at ChrisKridler.com and AletheaKontis.com.
14 May 2022: Sun halo and storm chasing update from Chris and Alethea
Here’s a May 11, 2022, update on the storm chasing trip so far. A few storms and LOTS of driving! Video (c) Chris Kridler, ChrisKridler.com See more at ChrisKridler.com and AletheaKontis.com
11 May 2022: Storm chasing update with Alethea and Chris
@Alethea Kontis and I are officially west of the Mississippi and ready to chase storms … but there aren’t any in the offing.
Chase 2022: On the Road - 5/6 Officially West
We happened to catch a waterspout (the touchdown was reported to NWS Melbourne) in Cocoa, Florida, on May 4, 2022. It looked tornadic from my point of view and persisted for several minutes. A very nice funnel for Florida! ©2022 by Chris Kridler, ChrisKridler.com
4 May 2022: Waterspout in Cocoa, Florida
There's a little space-age magic at work when the clouds swirl and twilight serves as a backdrop for Exploration Tower and the colorful lights at Port Canaveral, Florida, as captured in this timelapse video. Video ©2022 Chris Kridler, ChrisKridler.com; music licensed from Pond5
30 April 2022: Nightfall at Port Canaveral - a magical timelapse
Alethea Kontis and Chris Kridler talk about their storm-chasing adventures, humorous moments and the wild and wonderful storms they captured in Tornado Alley during the 2021 season. • Please hit that subscribe button for Chris - and subscribe to Princess Alethea's channel too! https://www.youtube.com/c/AletheaKontis • Learn more at https://ChrisKridler.com and https://www.AletheaKontis.com. • Video/photos ©Chris Kridler and ©Alethea Kontis; music licensed from FootageFirm.
Chris & Alethea look back at STORM CHASING 2021!
Hundreds of bats take flight from the bat box outside Rockledge High School in Rockledge, Florida, on April 4, 2022. This is just a fraction of the bats who fly out each evening. This was filmed with an iPhone 11 Pro. (c) 2022 by Chris Kridler, ChrisKridler.com
3 April 2022: Bat Break! Evening bat flight in Rockledge, Florida
The folks at the Miami Rum Congress had their hands full shutting down a rum tasting and wrangling a large tent that threatened to blow off the deck at the Hilton Cabana in Miami Beach, Florida, as a mighty windstorm roared through on March 12, 2022. Kudos to organizers for their rapid reset indoors at the hotel. Video (c) Chris Kridler, ChrisKridler.com
12 March 2022: Wild windstorm sweeps through Miami Beach
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches with an Italian radar satellite at twilight on January 31, 2022, from Florida's Space Coast. This wide view from the banks of the Indian River Lagoon also shows the rocket booster returning to Cape Canaveral. Shot with a GoPro. Music licensed from FootageFirm. Video ©2022 by Chris Kridler, ChrisKridler.com.
31 January 2022: Twilight SpaceX rocket launch and booster return
Two small Florida towns join forces to create a cute, Christmasy event: the Cocoa-Rockledge Holiday Parade. This was shot in Cocoa Village and is a quick and charming pastiche of the event. Video (c)2021 by Chris Kridler, ChrisKridler.com; music licensed from FootageFirm.
11 December 2021: Cocoa-Rockledge Holiday Parade
This GoPro timelapse shows a "mackerel sky" or a field of altocumulus clouds, filmed in Rockledge, Florida, on October 21, 2021. With music I created ages ago with eJay. (c) 2021 Chris Kridler, ChrisKridler.com
21 October 2021: 'Mackerel Sky' timelapse of Florida altocumulus clouds
Garden Spot Village, a retirement community in New Holland, Pennsylvania, opened its model train room to the public during its fall festival on October 9, 2021. The wonderful toy trains range from various gauges traversing sophisticated settings to Thomas the Tank Engine. Video (c) 2021 Chris Kridler, ChrisKridler.com; music licensed from Pond5.
The Tiny Trains of Garden Spot Village: A wonderful world of model trains!
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts a four-person crew into space on the Inspiration4 mission from Cape Canaveral, as filmed from Cocoa, Florida, in this timelapse (GoPro nightlapse) on September 15, 2021. Video (c) 2021 by Chris Kridler, ChrisKridler.com; music licensed from FootageFirm.
15 September 2021: SpaceX Inspiration4 launch sends humans to orbit
Just when TV shows about storm chasing can’t get any more extreme, along comes a production company with the ultimate exploit: the Bubble, a manned tornado probe. As the reluctant consultant, expert storm chaser Jack Andreas must get the show’s nervous star, failed tour operator Brad Treat, into a twister. But Jack is losing his customary cool as a comedy of errors unfolds. Distracting him is co-star Saffire, a Hollywood actress who is more than she seems, and producer Wynda, who will do anything to make her documentary succeed. The daring star of another show pursues them, desperate for a shot with his own flying machine. As the disasters mount, will Jack be able to launch their device into a tornado? The sequel to FUNNEL VISION, a Storm Seekers novel, TORNADO PINBALL delivers an unforgettable adventure with action, humor, romance and stunning storms. Learn more at ChrisKridler.com. (Video by Sky Diary Productions, with additional footage/images licensed from Pond5, DepositPhotos and Pexels)
Official book trailer: TORNADO PINBALL by Chris Kridler, a storm-chasing adventure
The Storm Seekers Series continues with a new storm-chasing adventure, "Zap Bang." For tornado chaser Jack Andreas, an invitation to a lightning study means double the danger. As he sees it, what’s not to love? He’s intrigued by the job and fascinated by pilot Maribeth Lisbon, who must fly a research plane into the zap zone. Maribeth suspects he’s trouble, especially when his charms set off all her alarms. In their way are scheming TV chaser Brad Treat and down-on-his-luck adventurer Aurelius Zane, intent on filming a wedding in front of a twister. The eccentric billionaire who funds the study has a secret agenda. And a mystic with a food truck tests them all. As fearsome storms put them in mortal peril, Jack and Maribeth find their toughest challenge may lie within. The sequel to FUNNEL VISION and TORNADO PINBALL, ZAP BANG continues Chris Kridler's Storm Seekers Series with action, drama, humor and romance. Learn more at ChrisKridler.com. (Updated with new book cover.)
Official book trailer: ZAP BANG by Chris Kridler, a storm-chasing adventure
Kansas photographer Judy Hale loves to chase storms, but at the heart of her passion is a fear she longs to quell, born of the tornado that destroyed her childhood. Devil-may-care tornado researcher Jack Andreas wants nothing better than to forget the past in his dangerously close encounters with twisters. After meeting on a chase, Judy and Jack have dueling destinies as they cross paths with Judy's flirty sister Shannon; clueless storm-tour operator Brad Treat; geeky, likable chaser Robinson Marvell; and a bevy of other storm chasers pursuing the gorgeous, violent storms of Tornado Alley. Their stories intertwine as they chase the monster storm that forces Judy to confront her deepest fears and Jack to find the courage to face the ultimate twister. With action, humor, romance and rapturous skies, "Funnel Vision" takes you into the heart of Tornado Alley -- and the hearts and minds of the adventurers who populate the nomadic, exhilarating world of storm chasing. This book trailer offers a preview. Get the novel at ChrisKridler.com. (Updated to reflect new cover)
Official book trailer: FUNNEL VISION by Chris Kridler, a storm-chasing adventure
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