His job forced Seenivasan Kumaravel to leave Canberra for Melbourne in 2015, but the epic photos he took while in the capital are still garnering an appreciative audience.

Mr Kumaravel's 2014 photo of the changing skies above Capital Wind Farm near Bungendore is the October image in the 2018 Australian Weather Calendar.

Changing skies above Capital Wind Farm near Bungendore, October 2014. Credit:Seenivasan Kumaravel

The calendar is jointly published by the Bureau of Meteorology and the Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society and hundreds of photographers submitted images in a competition that is more than 30 years old.

The best images, representing the full spectrum of Australian weather, were chosen for publication and include forked lightning over Lake Argyle in the Kimberley, a full moon shining in Kosciuszko National Park, and the Aurora australis seen from Davis Station, Antarctica.