Tour 3: 2026
Experience the raw power and beauty of severe weather across the Great Plains.
Reserve Your Spot- Dates May 26 – Jun 1, 2026
- Group Size 6 max
- Tuition $3,500
- Departs From Denver, CO
The outlook for May 26 to Jun 1.
Late May brings us to the peak of the severe weather season for the Great Plains, and the area with the greatest potential for chaseable storm activity expands to include all of the Texas Panhandle, eastern New Mexico, eastern Colorado, southeast Nebraska, Kansas, and Oklahoma. It’s not uncommon for all these areas to experience isolated to scattered severe weather events, including supercells and their associated phenomena, simultaneously during large outbreaks.
A supercell will build somewhere between the Rockies and the Mississippi this spring. We will know where, when, and from which angle it photographs best. Your job is to be there. Ours is to put you in position: the right square mile of plains, at the right hour, with the right light, beside people who have spent their careers reading the sky.
The
forecast
leads.
We adapt.
You shoot.
Each morning, the forecaster reads the day's atmosphere and picks a target. Some days it's eighty miles away. Some days six hundred. The tour follows the forecast. The forecast follows the storm.
Itinerary
One goal every day: put you inside lens range of the most photogenic supercell on the continent. Dawn briefing, daylong repositioning, cameras ready by late afternoon. Some days we drive eighty miles. Some days six hundred. The forecast decides.
What To Expect
Meteorology and photography, running in parallel. Our lead forecaster tracks a cell from first cumulus to dissipation. Our photographers read the light, frame the structure, and coach you through the narrow window when the storm is most willing to be photographed.
Accommodations
Sometimes at dusk, sometimes well after dark, the storm releases us and we find a hotel close to tomorrow's forecast. We hold standing relationships with dozens of properties along the plains and book you a private single-occupancy room every night.
Peace Of Mind
Our specialty is photogenic distance. Other outfits drive into tornadoes at arm's length. We park you at the angle where a supercell renders as architecture: structured, legible, unmistakable on camera. That position is almost always the safe one, and safety is the standard we plan around.
What's Included
Transportation, lodging, and instruction. Every tour begins and ends in Denver, Colorado. Meals happen on the road as the storms allow; snacks and water are stocked in the vehicle throughout the day.
Tours for photographers who want more than luck.
We handle the positioning, timing, and coaching so you can focus on making photographs when the light and weather finally align.
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Forecast-driven positioning Not guesswork.
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Real-time adjustments Adapt. Pivot. Capture.
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Expert coaching in the field When it matters most.
2 guides.
Led by a forecaster. Joined by working landscape photographers. With you for every storm of the week.
Steve Saviano
Steve Saviano is the tour leader, forecaster and founder of Skyscape Photo Tours. He is educated in meteorology and has had a life long interest in thunderstorms and their associated phenomena. With over 20 years of storm chasing experience, Steve has developed the ability to consistently place his tour guests in prime position to photograph the spectacular storms that occur across the great plains.
Bruce Omori
Bruce is a photographer based in Hilo, Hawai‘i, specializing in capturing the terrifying yet aesthetic nature of lava. Documenting volcanic eruptions and witnessing how it can create its own weather, fueled his fascination with storms on the grander scale, where dynamic atmospheric forces create powerful and destructive yet beautiful events. Bruce assists tour guests in seeing this beauty and capturing story-telling imagery of the experience.
No supercell forms twice. The one you photograph will be the only one of its kind that ever exists.
From
seasons
past.
Photographs from past expeditions and the guides who lead them.
7 days.
6 guests.
No re-runs.
We run in spring, when the Plains are at their most active. There is no fixed itinerary — the forecast draws the week, and no week we've ever run looks like the next. If that's the trip you want, this is the one that exists.
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