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 rented a high-quality macro lens for this photo shoot, which took the better part of a day to complete. I used lights, props, the whole deal to attempt to get a set of high-quality stills and video.
As with most homes/buildings in the Midwest, the crawl space of the apartments I live in have a brown recluse population. A spider occasionally would enter the living space during the hot summer months. When I first moved in in 2010, I would see one every month or so, mostly stuck in the kitchen sink (they cannot climb smooth surfaces). My solution to this problem was to place a very liberal distribution of glue traps to determine the spiders' entry point, which revealed the HVAC vents as their primary passageway. After this discovery in 2012, I screened off all of the vents and applied silicone sealer to every potential passageway to the interior walls and crawl space. Following the sealing operation, I dumped out every storage box and drawer I had, going through every crevice and hiding spot to ensure no spiders had established a residence in the living space. Thankfully, I found none.
After I sealed these openings in late 2012, I have caught zero spiders in the glue traps (which I still keep placed around the apartment just in case). The only unsealable passageway is my front door, which occasionally will allow a spider to enter. This only occurs about once a year, thankfully. Two weeks ago was the latest incursion by this particular specimen, which I put to good use on this photo shoot.
I am freaking out looking at these pictures! - Posted by Katie from Melrose, MA
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