Enamored with the wild from childhood, one Canadian photographer learned to brave the extreme storm season of Lake Erie to get hold of awe-inspiring images of water in motion. The Great Lake’s waves often display a ferocity of elemental proportion.
“I love the power and fury that Mother Nature can unleash on any given day,” photographer Trevor Pottelberg, 46, told The Epoch Times. “When the conditions are just right, the lake can produce some spectacular waves. … The winds are quite often gale force, with gusts up to 100km per hour.”
Pottelberg lives just ten minutes from his childhood home in Brownsville, Ontario—just a 40-minute drive from Lake Erie, the fourth largest of the five Great Lakes. Pottelberg said he has always been fascinated with storms and spends a great deal of time photographing scenes along the lakeshore. The endeavor requires preparation….