It was a cloudless, quiet morning at Arches. Still gorgeous, just not picture perfect. Hard to see in this small image but there is a shooter in the lower right corner just barely being kissed by the sunrise. It’s the only image I could scare up for the morning. But there was breakfast, see below 
Photo captured by D3, 24-70AFS on Lexar UDMA digital film
Badger, dood, I asked but they just don’t ship these killer, yummy pancakes. I thought of you with every bite tickling my tongue, the ginger lighting up the pallet.
Joe, I thought of you too man, sorry you’re not here yet. I’m not sure Brad has the same sentiment though.
Yeah, I know, I shouldn’t be shooting out the truck window going down I70 at 80mph (honest Mr Officer), but when the light is happening….
We’re in Moab and the clouds are dancing, the light glowing and the D3 motordrive a whirlin. The photo above was taken just before getting off I70 at Green River. The dotting of clouds and their shadow on the spire just screamed B&W (which I did using Nik Color Efex3).
And no…no tickets!
Photo captured by D3, 24-70AFS on Lexar UDMA digital film (with assist from Ford F250)
Started receiving a number of emails asking, “Where on your blog are these videos?” Finally, someone said they heard them mentioned at PSWTV. If I didn’t have this or that micro site, it probably would be easier to keep track of all this “stuff” I’ve put out there (I have a paper map on my desk so I can find stuff). Anyways you can find the D3 videos here. Will I be doing the same thing for the D300? I won’t. As time has gone by, I’ve gone to just shooting with the D3 with its FX sensor for everything so I don’t know the D300 that well. Many of the settings on the D3 like those for the AF translates to the D300 though just fine. Will I be coming out with more videos? Heck yeah…just watch the blog next week. Remember that McNally posting about me a while back….pay back time
I’m back home in the office, for just two days, before heading out to Moab for our next DLWS event. I had the opportunity to create this four image pano of White Pelicans while I was shooting in FL that I wanted to share with you. It was taken with Sharon’s 70-300VR, I just twisted at the trunk making mental notes of the beginning and ending points and then assembled it in a heartbeat in CS3 with Photomerge. It was a cool opportunity that I just couldn’t pass up. I just finished storing and backing up 9078 images from FL reminding me I had this to share. I would really love to make it larger for you to see, but can’t. Here’s why.
I wanted to take a moment to address what many folks are seeing lately. If you look at my images anywhere else but on MY blog, you will see a white box with my copyright rather than the image. I’ve received everything from nice emails to those from outraged folks saying how dare I block the images (seriously, how dare I). In January we had over 900 instantiates of image theft, mostly from our blog. Everything from taking just an image to stealing the ENTIRE blog and making it their own occurred. Now, I’m not sure what part of copyrighted image folks don’t understand, not sure why some reader services think they have the right to grab my images (and bandwidth in some cases) but we’ve been left with just a few options. Contacting folks and informing them they are thieves got old and a huge waste of our time. Shutting down the blog really crossed my mind because hey, this is just a freebie I do to share a little photographic inspiration. Since those options weren’t working for me, we’ve gone to implementing a viscous code so when someone steals our images (because that’s what it is, an illegal act that we are now pursing in some cases) all you see is a copyright.
This goes way beyond copyright issues. The photographs I post have a special meaning to me so I share them in the hopes that at times, they grab your heartstrings. I’m trying to point blank influence you into getting involved in wildlife photography and our wild heritage. While image theft is nothing new to us, the recent wave of over the top, gotta have and screw you attitude though has our head spinning. There’s no doubt I’m a big target (in ever sense of the word), always have been and if I’m lucky, I always will be. I can deal with that, I can’t deal though with the theft of my personal property, my heart & soul. We’re not shutting down the blog or website but we will do everything we can to keep honest people honest and the rest, well, they’re hearing from us in not so friendly terms. So, if you don’t see my images and only text, you now know why and, that you’re looking at a pirated site. You want the full bull, MooseNews Blog is the only place.
PS…those who have been very courteous and professional and shared our blog content via just a link, we thank you!
PSS…thanks for all the kind emails in support, they mean a lot to us. But please, no more emails with suggestions how to “solve” the problem. It’s not as cut and dry as one might think.
