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                   Monday, February 11, 2008 - 10:55AM

Lexington 35mm shots - final scans

By DAN ROBINSON
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From Dan: How the crime of copyright infringement took $1 million from me and shut down my operation.

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 received the Lexington tower lightning negative scans back from the pro lab here in town, and here are the results:

New scans: Click thumbnails to enlarge
Lexington, KY tower lightning Lexington, KY tower lightning Lexington, KY tower lightning

Lexington, KY tower lightning Lexington, KY tower lightning Lexington, KY tower lightning

Lexington, KY tower lightning Lexington, KY tower lightning

Compare the above scans to the one-hour machine prints:

Original prints: Click thumbnails to enlarge
Lexington, KY tower lightning Lexington, KY tower lightning Lexington, KY tower lightning

Lexington, KY tower lightning Lexington, KY tower lightning Lexington, KY tower lightning

Lexington, KY tower lightning Lexington, KY tower lightning

These were shot on Kodak 200 speed print film on a Pentax K1000 SLR, at F8 with a 28mm wide-angle lens. Exposure times ranged from 45 to 120 seconds.

To prove the number of hits to the towers, here are the two strikes caught on video that occured before I got the 35mm camera set up. The eleventh strike happened before I got the first video camera up, and unfortunately was not captured.

Lexington, KY tower lightning Lexington, KY tower lightning

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