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.
Some people call it Christianity. I don't like that term. I'd call it Reality. Why? Because it's not religion, it's reality. I'm not into religion, at least not in the stereotypical sense of the word. This web site is all about showing you what the Bible has to say about the realities in your life. Someone once told this to me, and now I'm here to pass it on to you.
After watching the man-made fireworks in downtown Charleston from my hilltop vantage point in Spring Hill Cemetery, I was heading for bed when I got the 'radar alert' call from my friend Bill Coyle in Virginia Beach. Unbenkownst to me, a line of cells had suddenly developed in Ohio and were moving southeast, fixing to give the Charleston area another round of fireworks - this time, natural ones.
I made it to northern Putnam County ahead of the storms near Red House, and set up the camera on aptly-named Grandview Ridge just in time to catch the last cloud-to-ground strike these cells produced. The lightning fizzled moments later, and I was home by 12:30AM - making it an unusually short chase night.
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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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