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Thursday, May 10, 2007 - 8:58PM EDT

The Great Plains in Pictures

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.

(Just a warning, this is a huge photo post!) The combination of the beauty of the Plains and a new digital camera equals me taking hundreds of photos. It's a little like when I got my first Pentax K1000 back in 1993 and went crazy shooting every object I saw. I have to say I'm really pleased with this new camera. For it not being a mighty DSLR it is definately worth the money spent. My old 4700 would average 15 or so pictures per battery charge, and I'd need three sets of rechargable batteries to get through an storm chase day. This new camera's first set of batteries finally died on Wednesday, the last day of Trip #2. That's 7 days of shooting 120-180 photos per day. During Tuesday's lightning shoot, I had the camera on continuously for over two hours doing time exposures. Even with 180 photos on a single day, I never came close to using up the 1GB card. Talk about major improvements!

So on to the photos. Storm Chasing & Photography's hectic schedule unfortunately does not allow for stopping to shoot all the cool and scenic non-weather sights you see on the Plains, and there are a ton of them. But, here and there you do get a little time.