Erik Hijweege, a k a Kevin Erskine, the Storm-Chasing Photographer To illustrate Nate Silver's recent article on the state of weather forecasting, we turned to the work of the storm photographer Kevin Erskine, whose haunting pictures of atmospheric disturbances are the subject of his book "Supercell," which came out last year. "Erskine" is the professional pseudonym used by Erik Hijweege, a Dutch photographer who was inspired to combine his longstanding interests in storms and landscape photography when he visited the United States seven years ago and met the meteorologist and well-known storm chaser Tim Marshall. Hijweege, known for his portraiture and commercial work in the Netherlands, decided he needed an alter ego when he was escaping from his everyday life and pursuing extreme weather, so he came up with "Kevin Erskine." In his mind, Erskine is farmer - someone close to nature - from Valentine, Neb., a town Hijweege fell in love with on one of his trips through what's known as Tornado Alley. After years of coming to the United States every storm season, Hijweege is now planning to take Kevin Erskine farther afield and make some pictures of stormy weather elsewhere around the world.