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.
Despite possibly the worst sky conditions for cityscape photography you can get (aside from pouring rain or heavy snow), I tried to get what I could in Boston and NYC. Matt and I lugged our camera gear up the 294 stairs of the Bunker Hill monument on Tuesday for this view:
The sky conditions were so bad that I didn't bother stopping again in New York City on my way back home, opting to just fire a few shots through the windows while sitting in traffic on the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway. Here is the Empire State building (I could actually see it this time), viewed from Brooklyn:
On the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge into Staten Island. Costs ten bucks to cross now! I topped at least 25 dollars in tolls (All in New Jersey, New York and Massachusetts) round-trip, and that's with taking the 'long way' and surface streets in many places to avoid toll roads as much as possible.
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To my regular readers, I offer my apologies for this heavy-handed notice. Unfortunately it has become necessary, so please bear with me!
Please don't copy/upload this site's content to social media or other web sites. Those copies have been a critical problem for me, seriously harming this site and my photography/storm chasing operation by diverting traffic, viewers, engagement and income. "Credit" and "exposure" does not benefit this site or my operation, rather they threaten my ability to cover my operating expenses. Please read my full explanation for this notice here.
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