Respectfully, no.
A tornado/storm photograph being posted online does not make it public property. If you screenshot someone’s work and turn it into a canvas because you do not want to pay for the print, that is still taking someone’s work without permission.
Storm photography is expensive, time consuming, and often physically risky to create. You are not just paying for ink and canvas, you are paying for the years of skill, forecasting, travel, gear, editing, and the actual moment they captured.
If someone’s work is worth stealing because it looks good in your house, that is usually proof it was worth paying for, and the photographer deserves to be compensated for it.
Support your peers in this space. Reach out to them because I don’t see anyone selling an 8x10 for $500.
After a lot of thought, I have decided to make a bot called "MaxBot".
It will mispronounce every single town name on stream and desperately be searching for a girlfriend.
You're welcome.
You’re staying back enjoying the structure, I’m too busy angrily tweeting about chaser convergence to realize I’m now inside the circulation. We are not the same
Some weather influencers will claim to support the National Weather Service or SPC while simultaneously building brands around the idea that they themselves can and will replace it.
Those positions are difficult to reconcile. Private weather communicators do complement the NWS and are fantastic at hyper localized real time coverage, but at this time are not a substitute for the public infrastructure, research, observations, and warning systems that make modern forecasting possible.
Supporting the NWS means recognizing that distinction without trying to get workers fired for over/under warning, I don’t think we will ever have the perspective of what’s it like sitting on issue warnings at that desk and I think there’s a place for all in this space.