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Friday, June 27, 2008 - 11:01PM

Pittsburgh lightning and Fairmont, WV storm

By DAN ROBINSON

Editor/Photographer

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.

HD EXPEDITION VIDEO: Lightning over downtown Pittsburgh, June 26

(Post updated 6/27 to add some additional photos) I picked up these shots in downtown Pittsburgh on Thursday night. This was a very cooperative storm, staying active until after sunset and not raining on me after I got the cameras set up. The lightning was mainly the stratiform-region anvil crawler variety, with the occasional branchless cloud-to-ground connection (the intense sonic-booming variety). This type of CG lightning is usually very bright, requiring a stop-down to F10 for most of these photos. The main storm cores passed over town prior to sunset, raining out the Pirates-Yankees game.