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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.

I caught one of the last night-blooming cereus gloriously unfolding its petals in this time-lapse on Florida's Space Coast. Almost every year, I try to capture a time-lapse of these magnificent flowers. Each giant blossom of these cactus vines blooms for just one night. Video (c) 2025 by Chris Kridler, ChrisKridler.com. Music licensed from Pond5.
Petal Power: Night-blooming cereus flower time-lapse 2025
Update May 29, 2025, from the Land of Oz on our multistate chase and Manter, Kansas, tornado on Wednesday, May 28! #stormchasing with Alethea Kontis Author #funnelvision #ozorbust #lookup #kswx #landofoz
Storm chasing update May 29 - tornado time in Kansas!
@ChrisKridler and @AletheaKontis talk about gnarly Texas storms from Stonehenge, sort of, on May 27, 2025. #stormchasing
May 27 storm chasing update - from Stonehenge?
@ChrisKridler & @AletheaKontis talk about Texas's tornadic storms Sunday and #stormchasing traffic jams. #funnelvision #ozorbust #lookup #txwx
Storm chasing update - May 25 tornadic Texas storms!
#Lightning, Strong City, OK on 5/24 #shorts #stormchasing
@ChrisKridler and @AletheaKontis talk about dealing with failure, driving a zillion miles and prospects for storms in Oklahoma. #stormchasing #funnelvision #ozorbust #ontheroad #lookup
May 24 storm chasing update from Oklahoma!
@ChrisKridler and @AletheaKontis talk about the extraordinary supercell they chased on May 22 in Texas with friends. #stormchasing #ozorbust #lookup #funnelvision #txwx #ontheroad
Storm chasing update May 23 - on the amazing May 22 Texas supercell!
Well, that was a messy chase! @ChrisKridler and @AletheaKontis show off hail shields and the "whale's mouth" in a messy sky after storm chasing in Texas and Oklahoma on May 19, 2025.
Storm chase update from the Oklahoma grunge with Chris & Alethea, May 19, 2025
@ChrisKridler and @AletheaKontis chat about cows, miles, tornadoes and what's next during their storm chasing adventure, on May 20, 2025.
Of cows and tornadoes - storm chasing update with Chris & Alethea on May 20, 2025
@ChrisKridler and @AletheaKontis are on the road May 18 and talk about their daily good-luck ritual during their storm chasing expedition across Tornado Alley.
Storm chasing update (and a good-luck ritual) with Chris & Alethea: May 18, 2025
Cow joins the chase #shorts #stormchasing with @AletheaKontis
A quick lightning crawler slowed down in a GoPro clip, shot on Florida's Space Coast on May 8, 2025. #flwx #shorts #lightning
Slow-mo Florida lightning bolt, 8 May 2025 #shorts
A Carolina Wren has nested in a mailbox at our house. Quick video of her coming and going with bugs for the baby birds. #florida #spacecoast
Carolina Wren feeds her babies in a mailbox nest #shorts
Want to chase storms? Here are a few tips on how to get started. @girlswhochase invited @ChrisKridler and @AletheaKontis to make a video about who we are, how we got into storm chasing, and info relevant to women and anyone who wants to chase storms. #stormchasing #girlswhochase #ozorbust #funnelvision #lookup
Want to chase storms? Chris & Alethea talk about how they hit the road
A cul-de-sac in Satellite Beach, Florida, goes all out with #christmasdecorations. This is the 2024 edition. Music licensed from FootageFirm.
Verbenia Court Christmas, Satellite Beach, Florida #shorts
Almost every year, I seek to capture the enchanting unfolding of night-blooming cereus flowers. Each giant blossom of these cactus vines blooms for just one night. Here we see the full panoply of these beautiful flowers as they explode in Florida along with a time-lapse of them opening as evening falls. Video (c) 2024 by Chris Kridler, ChrisKridler.com. Music licensed from Pond5.
Magical night-blooming cereus time-lapse 2024
An epic tornado chase of a twister in all its forms! May 23, 2024, offered a spectacle as a tornado churned between Eldorado, Duke and Olustee, Oklahoma. This video tells the story of the chase and features footage, time-lapses and photos of this extraordinary tornado, in turns a multivortex, cone, stovepipe and wedge. Experience an amazing day of #stormchasing with @ChrisKridler @AletheaKontis @facethewind and @Storm_Doctor. Video (c) 2024 by Chris Kridler, ChrisKridler.com. Music licensed from Pond5. ~~Not for broadcast; 4K video available. Inquire about licensing.~~
23 May 2024: Stunning shape-shifting Oklahoma tornado
@ChrisKridler and @AletheaKontis meet up with friends and chase a fantastic spinning supercell that produced a tornado in Oklahoma on May 19, 2024. Even if the tornado was obscure from our angle, our views of the storm were stunning. Video (c) 2024 by Chris Kridler, ChrisKridler.com. Music licensed from Pond5.
19 May 2024: Dramatic Oklahoma tornadic supercell
A marginal setup led to beautiful storms in south Texas on May 16, 2024, including a dramatic shelf cloud, for storm chasers @ChrisKridler and @AletheaKontis. Video (c) 2024 by Chris Kridler, ChrisKridler.com. Music licensed from Pond5.
16 May 2024: Dreamy south Texas storms
@ChrisKridler and @AletheaKontis set out to capture the Northern Lights during the big geomagnetic storm of May 10-11, 2024, first in northern Kansas, and then in the Badlands of South Dakota. The aurora delivered, and the results were magical. Video (c) 2024 by Chris Kridler, ChrisKridler.com. Music licensed from Pond5.
May 10-11, 2024: Dazzling Northern Lights chasing in Kansas and South Dakota
Facing an ominous forecast on May 6, 2024, @ChrisKridler and @AletheaKontis chase classic storms that fired on the dryline and moved into northwest Oklahoma, ending with a beautiful lightning show. Video (c) 2024 by Chris Kridler, ChrisKridler.com. Music licensed from Pond5.
6 May 2024: Ominous Oklahoma supercells
After a dubious storm chase May 8, @ChrisKridler and @AletheaKontis try again on May 9 and experience the hilarious realities of chasing storms - missed targets, closed roads and deflated expectations. And a few pretty pictures anyway. Video (c) 2024 by Chris Kridler, ChrisKridler.com.
May 8-9, 2024 in Texas: Sometimes storm chasing isn't pretty!
One last Plains chase on June 3, 2023, led @ChrisKridler and @AletheaKontis to New Mexico and then to Texas, chasing bubbling storms, a sweeping arcus cloud and sizzling lightning storms. Video (c) 2023 by Chris Kridler, ChrisKridler.com. Music licensed from Pond5.
3 June 2023: Sweeping shelf cloud and sizzling bolts, New Mexico to Texas
Another day, another chase in New Mexico with Chris and Alethea. June 2, 2023, featured a rotating storm that came dangerously close to making a tornado, flooding, and a rainbow. Video (c) 2023 by Chris Kridler, ChrisKridler.com. Music licensed from Pond5.
2 June 2023: Swirling storms from New Mexico to Texas
We drove on up through Kansas from Liberal to southern Nebraska to chase a pretty little low-precipitation storm on May 29, 2023. Video (c) 2023 by Chris Kridler, ChrisKridler.com. Music licensed from Pond5.
29 May 2023: Pretty storms in Nebraska
@ChrisKridler and @AletheaKontis chase a small low-precipitation supercell on a marginal day north of Amarillo, Texas, that led to the development of a massive storm and pretty cone tornado on May 28, 2023. Video ©2023 by Chris Kridler. Music licensed from Pond5.
28 May 2023: Texas Panhandle supercell and tornado
A chase around New Mexico had storm chasers Chris Kridler, Alethea Kontis and Jason Persoff spinning in circles through desert and floods along with the scenic storms on May 27, 2023. Video ©2023 by Chris Kridler, ChrisKridler.com. Music licensed from Pond5.
27 May 2023: Scenic spinning storms in New Mexico
Sometimes small chances lead to big payoffs when storm chasing - like this gorgeous, lightning-filled spinning supercell in New Mexico on May 25, 2023. Chris Kridler and Alethea Kontis chase it into the night. Video ©2023 by Chris Kridler. Music licensed from Pond5. More photos and details: https://chriskridler.com
25 May 2023: Electrifying lightning-filled supercell in New Mexico
High winds caused waves on the Indian River Lagoon and palm trees to shed their fronds on a blustery day on the Space Coast. Filmed in Rockledge, Florida, 6 February 2024. (c) Chris Kridler, ChrisKridler.com
6 February 2024: Blustery winds on the Space Coast
This timelapse video shows a beautiful nighttime SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launch, as seen from Rockledge, Florida. Video ©2023 by Chris Kridler, ChrisKridler.com. Music licensed from Pond5.
28 December 2023: SpaceX Falcon 9 launch
On @ChrisKridler and @AletheaKontis 's first day of Plains storm chasing in 2023, we rolled up on a gorgeous mess of intense rotating storms in New Mexico, ending with a beautiful UFO-like dust-eating supercell with lots of lightning in western Texas. Video ©2023 by Chris Kridler, ChrisKridler.com. Music licensed from Pond5.
24 May 2023: Dusty tornadic supercell in New Mexico
@ChrisKridler and @AletheaKontis met up with Jason Persoff to chase the Morton, Texas, supercell that spawned a giant tornado. We were on the dusty side of the storm most of the time but were still treated to an epic show as we pursued the monster. Video ©2022 by Chris Kridler. Music licensed from Pond5. #stormchasing #txwx
23 May 2022: Texas tornado chase of a massive beast supercell
SpaceX launched a Falcon Heavy rocket from Kennedy Space Center at twilight on April 30, 2023, with the ViaSat 3 internet satellite and two other payloads. This GoPro timelapse was shot in Cocoa, Florida. See more photos at https://ChrisKridler.com. Video ©2023 by Chris Kridler. Music licensed from Pond5.
30 April 2023: SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket launch at twilight
A chase of a severe storm on Florida's Space Coast led to @ChrisKridler seeking shelter from a loud barrage of hailstones in Cocoa on April 29, 2023. #stormchasing #flwx #weather
29 April 2023: LOUD hailstorm chase on Florida's Space Coast
Tornado-warned severe storms produced hail, high winds and wild structure and rotation on Florida's Space Coast on April 27, 2023. @ChrisKridler chases the storms. See more images at https://chriskridler.com. #stormchasing #flwx
27 April 2023: Tornado-warned storms on Florida's Space Coast
On Wednesday, April 26, @ChrisKridler and @AletheaKontis chased a beautiful severe storm down Florida's East Coast, ending up in a windy hailer that looked like a hurricane. And they shared the latest news about their mascot, Cow! See more images at https://ChrisKridler.com. #stormchasing #flwx
26 April 2023: Severe Florida storms and sad news about Cow!
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