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.
I haven't had anything to post about for several days, because nothing is going on. I've been too busy working on four web projects that I'm trying to finish before the middle of the week, and haven't had any time to do anything else. My current projects are more tedious than usual, and this post is more for me taking a sanity break than anything. Seems I've only been leaving my office (which is at home) only to eat and sleep, and that's just involved walking from one end of my house to the other. After doing it for a long time, working at home is not the blissful utopia you'd normally envision. Sometimes the monotony and isolation actually makes it harder to focus. If gas prices weren't so high, I'd probably take my setup back to our Teays Valley office again, but the 60 mile round trip is impractical. I'm thinking of trying to find an office somewhere in town (maybe a shared space with an extra room, IE cheap rent) so that I can get outside of here and see a different set of walls once in a while. Maybe even start using my bike for transportation.
Yeah, and the weather's been dead too. This is August, true - but it's been a below-average one in terms of storms. The one plus is that this would be great scenic photography weather (green mountains with a crisp blue sky and all), but I haven't been able to get out of here to do any of that. I might have a chance to take a few days off this week, but by then the remnants of Fay will probably be sitting over us.
One thing I did this week was find a cool Matt Redman song on Itunes that I hadn't heard in about 8 years. I last heard it on the long-discontinued MBN Saturday Night radio show sometime around 1998, while on one of my late-night country-road drives.
It's the mystery of the universe
You're the God of holiness
yet you welcome souls like me
A good reminder that despite my endless faults and shortcomings, God still tolerates me. I know, I've figured out that few people share my musical tastes, and I get blank stares when I bring up the subject. (Sometimes I wonder how these artists stay in business if I'm the only one listening to them.) But hey, it's something to type to give me another couple of minutes before I get back to work.
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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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