clouds. it's been nearly 16 months now since super storm sandy devastated the northeast. we are introduced to a photographer who thought the floods ruined his works only to discover the opposite. >> reporter: when randy taylor talks about his photos, he can't help but tell you what they used to look like. >> this is a moose and you can see the antlers up here. >> reporter: taylor was a documentary-style photographer who used to travel around the world. over a 40-year career he had taken close to 30,000 images. almost all of them were destroyed by super storm sandy. where did you have them stored? >> it was a commercial storage facility and it was basically downstairs in the baimentd. we had to rip open filing cabinets so we had crow bars and mold was kill the photographs. this one has mold all over it. >> reporter: to stop the mold on the few dozen images still intact, taylor dipped them in