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When most people are taking shelter, battening down the hatches and pulling the doona a little tighter, Vaughan Laws is out chasing storms.
And sometimes, he catches a beauty, such as this taken in Melbourne's Frankston suburb on Thursday - which he rates in his top five pictures ever.
When Mr Laws heard the weather forecast was for a 'severe thunderstorm with heavy rainfall, damaging winds and possible large hailstones' he grabbed his camera, got in the car and headed for where he hoped he'd get the best shots.
He guessed right and captured a shelf cloud that looks like a hump back whale rolling across the horizon. He also got a bit wet.
Vaughan Laws has taken tens of thousands of pictures, but rates this one in his top five ever
'I knew there were going to be severe storms in the bay area, so I was definitely going out for that,' he told Daily Mail Australia.
Australia's La Nina weather pattern summer has started off dramatically, after the wettest November the country has seen since 1900 - 121 years ago.
It was also Australia's coolest November since the La Nina event of 1999.
An awe-inspiring shelf cloud captured by Melbourne photographer Vaughan Laws
But he wasn't expecting to find something so dramatic.
'I was expecting a shelf cloud, but didn't think it would be quite like that.
'I was expecting there to be lightning, but everyone on the beach was pretty amazed with what we saw,' he said.
