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                   Saturday, January 17, 2015

Top 10 storm chasing and weather captures in 2014

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.

Everybody does a new year's "top ten list" blog post these days, so here is mine. 2014 was a well-above-average year for me in terms of compelling imagery and video captured. In fact, several of these were so significant in terms of longtime personal goals that I just can't give any one of them a #1 status over the others!

Chicago triple skyscraper lightning strike - June 30

An 8-year-long photography goal realized after many trips to Chicago for storms.

Triple lightning strikes on Chicago's three tallest buildings - June 30, 2014

Gateway Arch lightning strike - August 27

A 5-year-long photography/video goal realized after many years of intensive St. Louis storm coverage.

Lightning strikes the Gateway Arch

Arch and Lunar Eclipse - April 15

Arch and "Blood Moon" eclipse together in the spring.

Winter Illinois tornadoes with snow - February 20

Two tornadoes near Jacksonville, Illinois with snow on the ground.

St. Louis metro tornadoes - June 7

Tornadoes close to home in June.

Severe storm shelf cloud over St. Louis - October 2

One of the better shelf clouds I've seen, and right over the city.

Severe thunderstorm shelf cloud over St. Louis

Marshall, MO wedge tornado - May 11

Tornadoes in central Missouri.

St. Louis tornado-warned storm lightning - April 5

Lightning and a shelf cloud over downtown as tornado sirens wail.

Texas freezing rain - January 24

A long freezing rain coverage trip to south Texas yields some of my most dramatic and compelling icy road footage captured.

St. Louis snowstorm - January 6

I booked a hotel downtown to cover the storm that dumped more than 12 inches of snow in St. Louis.

Great photos
- Posted by mom

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