Origin Of Storm Chasing Photos

Storm photos that have been circulating the net (I mentioned them here) under different captions are identified.

The pictures were mostly taken in 2004. All were snapped within a few hundred miles of Omaha. Hollingshead takes the pictures for a living, and about nine months ago, he started getting e-mails from other storm chasers telling him his pictures were appearing around the world.

"People started selling them to magazines like Weatherwise, then a Dutch magazine about weather, then to newspapers and TV shows," Hollingshead said. He said he tried to correct the Web sites, but it just kept spreading. "Then a different storm would happen in other countries, and someone would start it, and I'd hear about it from that country," Hollingshead said.

Once Hurricane Katrina hit, Hollingshead's pictures made it into newspapers and thousands of inboxes. "It's pretty flattering for a while, but it gets to the point where you hear about it every day and you have to reply. It's so much work and time that it's a trade out a little bit," he said.

via Drudge