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!

Wave surfing at Santa Cruz, CA

Ranjay Mitra — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 06:28:11 +0000

Wave surfing is a popular sports and there is no dearth of enthusiasts of all ages. I have had numerous shots on my Velvia™ but now that I have a digital kid, I can readily post some of them here. And this was from the first couple of days of buying the D200 while I was testing the Nikon 80-400 VR™ with the Kenko 300 PRO DG 1.4™. The VR worked great, the focus lock was desperately accurate with no hunting, the saturating was stunning without a polarizer or even a 81A.

I do not like the idea of sitting on the laptop and manipulating an image for hours tweaking the saturation or the sharpness – I prefer to spend that time on the field instead! So this camera is not only getting me the images, it’s also allowing me to spend time with my camera.

I will keep posting some of these shots, and should you know the person whose image is displayed, please let me know. I shall be more than happy to send him/her a copy.

Hitting the wave

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Musicnation.Com – copycat & desperate to survive?

Wave surfing at Santa Cruz, CA