Photograph by Jason Weingart
This stunning photomontage actually contains eight different images. It recently won 1st place in the Wikimedia Commons 2018 Picture of the Year. The image was also a Jury’s Choice award winner in the 2017 Wiki Science Competition.
From Wiki Media Foundation:
"Weingart created the picture of the year (above) from eight images he took while stormchasing in Dodge City, Kansas, United States, in May 2016. Of those, seven show the tornado itself, while the one on the far left demonstrates the storm’s structure.
Weingart, who lives near Austin, Texas, then used Photoshop to blend them together for the final presentation. “I wanted to be the first person to use timelapse photography to document tornadogenesis,” he says.
The high quality of the individual shots stemmed from Weingart’s choice to rig his camera to take one photograph for every second of video, which meant that he wasn’t stuck trying to cull individual frames from all his footage. (That video is available on YouTube.)"
According to Snopes, the tornado photomontage started recirculating on social media after it was posted to the “Interesting as F*ck” section of Reddit. Many mistook the photo as showing multiple tornadoes touching down in Kansas, and called BS, rather than investigating to discover it's actually a composite image showing the "evolution" of a single tornado.
