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.
Looks like I'll be on Street View sometime in the future. I stepped outside this afternoon to see Google's car driving by my house. They've already recorded and posted Charleston (and my neighborhood), but supposedly they're doing another update. Must be nice to have the funding to afford that! As usual I had my cameras close by, and snapped a quick video and a couple of stills. If they end up posting whatever they recorded in the next update, I'll be standing on my porch with the Aiptek camera in hand.
In other happenings, I didn't get anything done to the truck during the last Raleigh trip, as it was too rainy and/or cold the entire week to do anything (thanks to a persistent upper trough). I am tentatively planning on a second trip down there sometime next week. Not much to post about otherwise. I did see this supercell-like formation as storms began firing on an outflow boundary south of Raleigh on Wednesday afternoon, which is worth a mention. I wasn't observing or even paying attention to weather, so when I happened to look southward from Ten Ten Road and saw this, I was really caught off guard. There was some good rising motion with this, and the little tail cloud persisted for a good 5 minutes. It didn't amount to anything, but was enough to get my attention for a few minutes. If there had been more instability available, this may have done something.
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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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