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Musicnation.Com – copycat & desperate to survive?

Ranjay Mitra — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 00:58:25 +0000

I have had my pictures copied by many people. Most of them had either the courtesy to either let me know or to refer to my post. I was really shocked & rather insulted when http://musicnation.com/ (MusicNation), thought it wise to send me a link of a place where they have just renamed one of my images.

To add to the whole act of a desperate crook, they even went ahead and wrote obnoxious statement on Craig. No wonder they had no reference to what they were writing. Here is a link to Craig’s image on the post on Music Nation – http://mnmedia.musicnation.com/Blog/2008/080124/oldmanclarinet.jpg

Here is the original post on my blog, made on15th August 2007.

http://nonphotographer.wordpress.com/2007/08/15/san-francisco-street-artists-clarinet-by-craig/

I could think of the people behind this website of Musicnation.com to be no less than cheap and have no respect for either the music or the musician. Here is the post I am referring to – http://musicnation.musicnation.com/blog/2008/02/street-musicians-part-ii & the last image on that post is that of Craig.

They don’t realize that we could easily make a watermark on these images. However, we do not do that so that the readers get to see the image at its best!

Window shopping & Cinnabon

Ranjay Mitra — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 04:44:27 +0000

I am a window shopper, spending more time outside the shop looking through the glass windows and viewing the mannequins at various angles. And if I am in a mall, it is quite an effort to window shop at all the showrooms. If you are also photographing people and looking for some of those candid moments, the mall probably offers a great place. And while you are at the mall, the food court is The Spot.

Although lately all the mall management have restricted photography inside the malls and people in general have also become skeptical of anyone taking their pictures, the food court offers a busy spot and no one really minds while you are taking general snap shots of families enjoying a moment together. I always ask before clicking, and while I sometimes get a smiling “oh sure”, sometimes a rude “for what? no! no!” is common. And if you ever get to ask someone at the food court, you meet a “umm-hmm” – a sort of “go ahead, I really don’t care!”. But I have always been courteous in not invading anyone’s privacy or snapping moments one would like to keep “personal”. Thats a sort of professional ethics and a “thank you” in return.

I just came back after spending five hours at the Great Mall just north of San Jose. And this time, I did shop with the green bills! I stopped at the food court. Six hours? non stop? Yes, its the miracle of the sugar coated dough of Cinnabon and a fruit shake, totaling almost a few hundred calories. And while I was there, I kept clicking my D200.

Food court at the Great Mall, San Jose

Shiatsu – while on the go

Ranjay Mitra — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 21:44:40 +0000

Kiosks and make shift massage parlors have mushroomed all over shopping complexes and malls. Here is a Shiatsu massage parlor. Technology have made these parlors unmanned.

Shiatsu Parlor