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.
I've been waiting for a clear post-fresh-snowfall day to go downtown and get some new shots, but that has eluded me until today. I had a few tasks to take care of in O'Fallon this morning, so it was a convenient time to go on into the city and make a few photo stops. The region got about 3 inches of snow last night.
From East St. Louis. I had to stand on top of the concrete levee wall to get this view over the railroad cars. There is a nice new elevated overlook here, but it's about 300 feet back from the levee with high-tension power lines slashing right through the view. So it's basically just as I've always had to do to get this view since I started coming here 10 years ago.
Apparently the panorama stitcher I've been using can't handle up-close panos of the Arch. No matter what settings I used, it always had trouble with the top part. This is the better of the results, though still not usable for anything.
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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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