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.
An active daytime storm 2 miles to the southeast has just passed over, leaving developing fog on the rolling hills of Teays Valley in Scott Depot, WV. Teays Valley is one of a handful of relatively flat locations in West Virginia.
A trailing return stroke of this bolt was caught using the manually-triggered visual reaction method, which works well in bright daylight conditions - and can be performed with any type of camera. See the lightning photography tutorial for more information.
Camera/Lens/Film: 35mm Pentax K1000 SLR, 28mm lens, Fujichrome Sensia II 100 slide. Exposure: 1/125 second @ F8, manual trigger
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Please do not 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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