In September of 2025, my work is generating the most income it ever has in my career. Yet, I'm being forced to shut down my successul operation, against my will, due to one cause alone: 95% of that revenue is being stolen by piracy and copyright infringement. I've lost more than $1 million to copyright infringement in the last 15 years, and it's finally brought an end to my professional storm chasing operation. Do not be misled by the lies of infringers, anti-copyright activists and organized piracy cartels. This page is a detailed, evidenced account of my battle I had to undertake to just barely stay in business, and eventually could not overcome. It's a problem faced by all of my colleagues and most other creators in the field.
My brother just upgraded to a 21.1 MP (that's not a typo, twenty-one megapixels) Canon 1Ds Mark III, so we've been out on a couple of photo shoots around town. Here are some shots from my (lowly in comparison) point-and-shoot from around Raleigh:
Skyline from Boylan Avenue:
Norfolk Southern mainline, looking west:
Backlit edge of patchy stratocumulus with 'funnel' look-alike:
Matt's wife's dad is a longtime engineer for Norfolk Southern, running a daily local freight from Raleigh to Fuquay-Varina and Sanford. Here is his train coming into Raleigh at Boylan Avenue:
Raleigh's newest downtown skyscraper, RBC Plaza, is nearing completion:
This is what happens when a covered hopper car hauling grain has a leaky hopper door:
Sunlight-heated surface temps on Monday afternoon took advantage of the cold air aloft to fire some weak showers over Raleigh, with some attempts at pileus:
And now the usual animal photos. 17 years old and still going, Buffy (cocker spaniel) chills on the couch:
Beau goes into 'compact mode' after chewing the cap off of a 16-ounce soda bottle (one favorite pasttime out of of many):
As always, much higher quality imagery can be found at Matt's Raleigh Skyline site.
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