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.
This week, I digitized some work from a pencil sketching phase I went through from 1992-1995 (late high school to early college). These were all drawn mostly from memory, with occasional references to photos to get details right. These were done with a mechanical pencil, and small sections of the lead for shading.
It's interesting the things you can do with all the time you have when you're young. I haven't done anything like this since. Like some of my other interests at a younger age, I don't think I'll ever have the time or motivation to get back into it.
New River Gorge Bridge:
St. Albans, WV train and tunnel:
Summersville (WV) Dam with the old outlet tubes (before the new hydro plant was installed):
The Gazette House cabin in Canaan Valley, WV. Known to us as 'Cabin's House', this was an annual October family destination until the late 1980s:
Montgomery, WV street scene (unfinished):
Railroad tracks at South Wade and East Maiden in Washington, PA, about a mile from my parent's house:
Railroad bridge near Maiden and Jefferson in Washington, PA:
Old Baltimore and Ohio railroad signal tower/cabin in Washington, PA. I believe this has been torn down:
Tunnel #5 on the old Baltimore and Ohio railroad near Claysville, PA:
Baltimore and Ohio railroad bridge west of Washington, PA:
My paternal grandparent's house in Charleston, WV in 1992, the one that I would eventually buy and live in years later. I lived here from May of 1998 to January 2010:
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