My work is, at this very moment you are reading this, generating the most income it ever has in my career. Yet, I was forced to shut down the professional side of 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.
2006 was my first full year shooting with a HD video camera, so I focused more on gathering video footage than stills. The Great Plains trip in May was my most organized ever, with a car-full of friends and equipment. Unfortunately, this trip occured during one of the least active spring tornado seasons in decades. We not only saw no tornadoes during the trip, but were stranded by car trouble for days in Bismarck, North Dakota.
After all of that, an unlikely tornado redemption occured in September, when I discovered the full potential of fall season severe weather in the Midwest. I caught the F4 Crosstown, Missouri tornado just across the river in Illinois, keeping 2006 from being a tornado-less year.
My work is, at this very moment you are reading this, generating the most income it ever has in my career. Yet, I was forced to shut down the professional side of 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.
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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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This chase was a routine television assignment in my role as a cameraman. As a result, many of these don't have a dedicated chase log.
This chase was only recorded in my mileage reports, no detailed log was written for it.
December 1, 2006
September 22, 2006
September 1, 2006
July 20, 2006
July 4, 2006
June 22, 2006
Storm Chasing Expedition 2006
April 14, 2006
February 12, 2006
January 18, 2006
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