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Monday, May 21, 2007 - 11:50PM

May evening in Pittsburgh

By DAN ROBINSON

Editor/Photographer

From Dan: How the crime of copyright infringement took $1 million from me and brought down my business.

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. This page is a detailed account of the biggest threat to my photography and video operation that I had to battle daily to just barely survive, and eventually could not overcome. It's a problem facing all of my colleagues as well.

Late this afternoon, my brother Matt and I ventured into downtown Pittsburgh for an urban landscape photo session at sundown. Matt, a professional still photographer, has the most extensive and popular Pittsburgh photo collection available, viewable on his web site Pittsburgh Skyline. While my Fuji S700 can't match the caliber of Matt's 5D, it can still do a satisfactory job of capturing the scenes.

Click for full photo series

Click for full photo series

Since these photo series are becoming a regular feature on this blog, I'm trying something new with this one. Instead of posting a large number of small 320-pixel wide images, I'm creating a separate page for the photos with larger dimensions. That will allow for more images at a greater size without introducing a page load time issue for the rest of the blog.