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've been very busy this week, so it took me a long time to get these completed. The logs for the good storm chase days always take a ton of time to do, the 4/14 account alone ended up being by far the all-time biggest with over 100 images. So, without anything further, here are the chase logs for the three main days of Plains trip #1:
That wraps up the post-trip to-do list for Plains expedetion #1. Waiting now for the long-range models to signal another good event in the next 2 weeks. So far, nothing of real interest aside from the GFS sending a fast shortwave through the upper ridge next week. The Euro is trying to establish western troughing by the end of the month. So, we just have to wait and see.
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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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