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.
This is a recap of storm chases and weather events in December of 2025.
I went out expecting this to be a routine snow, again only spending a couple of hours as a "hobbyist" taking a brief look at the conditions, as opposed to the 12-hour day I'd normally have pulled in a commercial cameraman capacity. The lack of road treatment made this a major event, bad enough that I could not even reach the worst areas due to roads - the interstates and highways included - simply being impassable and shut down. I instead made a couple of circuits around the southern end of the metro where conditions were less severe, but found nothing of interest. I didn't go back out for further rounds of snow later in the evening.
December 3: Sunset asperatus over New Baden, Illinois
These asperatus clouds appeared overhead and with a break in the clouds to the west at just the right time to have vivid sunset illumination.
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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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