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Friday, July 15, 2011 - 12:50PM CDT

A few STL Arch/cityscapes before the mega-ridge

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.

FULL GALLERY: STL Gateway Arch and Skyline Gallery

There's not much excitement in this post, but I figured I'd put something up for the day, as it appears there will not be much to talk/photograph for an extended time. By all indications, we'll be plunging deep into an extended ridging pattern in the Midwest, with oppressive heat (days at the 100°F mark) and little or no interesting weather for at least a week. In other words, it's a 'stay indoors' marathon - there will likely be no good reasons to go out and brave the conditions for photography (or anything for that matter). The folks going to the U2 concert are dedicated souls! I almost have to wonder why they chose July in the Midwest to have that event...

Anyway, it was clear and relatively cool this morning downtown after I got off of work, which allowed for one last morning photo shoot before the bearable conditions vanish this weekend. To get one angle I was after required scrambling over a 5-foot concrete floodwall and wading through a quarter mile of chest-high burrs and weeds - in East St. Louis! I need to figure out how to get my own Peter Lik-type TV show doing this stuff.

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And that's all - until interesting weather/storms return to the lower Midwest...

If you go to the Metro station in Laclede�s Landing, you can get a great picture of the Arch framed within an arch...
- Posted by Tara

Thanks Tara! I remember seeing that when I took Metrolink last year to the July 3 fireworks. One day I'll need to go grab a few shots of that.
- Posted by Dan R. from New Baden, IL