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.
Thanks to the spring storm season taking a vacation, I have finally been able to edit and catalog all of my Charleston stock still photography for a new web site I've been planning for about a year now. wvimages.com will have three sections - one each for Charleston WV, another for West Virginia/Appalachia and a third for miscellaneous storm chasing. I finished and launched the Charleston section yesterday.
While I gave prints a token mention, the main focus of the site is rights-managed licensing. I don't expect a whole lot from it, but there is a little demand out there that hopefully will help pay for future storm seasons and maybe some new lenses. It feels good to finally have this done (at least the first part of it).
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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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