American Photo Magazine interviews Nick Cope about his viral photo experience during Hurricane Sandy. It is a story many accidental photojournalists will identify with.

” On the morning the storm hit New York City, Nick Cope snapped a photo of rising flood waters from the window of his Red Hook, Brooklyn apartment. Then things got interesting. “

Increasingly, Climate Change induced extreme weather phenomena has become the norm. Likewise, so has photograph rights-usage stories like Nick Cope’s also become the norm.