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.
Charleston's Christmas parade went by the office on Capitol Street Friday evening. I set the webcam to capture every 2 seconds, then rendered out a quick video:
The crowd looks a little thin there, but there was a pretty decent turnout - most people were at either end of the block. It sure did clear out fast after it was over though, as you can see. And yes, that streetlight with the messed up daylight sensor is annoying. I went downstairs to shoot a few frames, but photography wasn't happening thanks to the low light. Wide open and 1600 ISO was all I could work with handheld, which wasn't much. It was too cold to stand out there very long anyway.
I normally would just piggyback this onto another post later on, but I figured there would be a few search hits for it this weekend.
Looked like a large parade where was all the spectators. - Posted by Kurt
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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!
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