The Martian‘s Mark Watney learned the hard way just how perilous a sandstorm can be. As did Ethan Hunt and his team in Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol. But, when you’re safely far away from them, they’re a lot less violent and a lot more beautiful. And you can see why sandstorms are gorgeous in this stunning time-lapse video. It features ten years of exciting, intense, breathtaking storms filmed by an expert.

This four-minute montage (which we first saw at PetaPixel) comes from storm chaser Mike Olbinski. He’s been shooting haboobs, sand and dust storms caused by extreme wind, since 2011. He writes that “the amount of haboob goodness I’ve witnessed and captured on camera has been a blast.” They’ve also proved, for obvious reasons, popular with his YouTube followers. And shooting them has been lucrative for him, also. He turned what he describes as an “incredibly fun, exhilarating and rewarding” passion into an actual business. Olbinski serves as a consult to production companies on how to shoot haboobs.

This sandstorm video compilation, made up of his favorite sequences from 2011 to 2021, is the only resume he needs to give potential new clients. READ further from the source above