I Shoot, Therefore I Am...

 

Sets you should look at

About Me

 

Hi! I live a strange, unplanned, and unexpected life of photography and adventure.

 

I'll keep uploading interesting pictures every month... or, at least, I'll try...

 

Hobbies

 

Photography (obviously!)

Reading

Writing

Playing the Classical Guitar

Mountaineering

 

Awards, Competitions & Published Work

 

2012

- Highly Commended - ZSL Wildlife Photography Competition 2012

 

2013

- Published in BBC's Gardeners World

- ZSL Wildlife Photography Competition - Won

- Shortlisted - British Wildlife Photography Awards (BWPA)

 

2014

- ZSL Wildlife Photography Competition - Won

- Shortlisted - British Wildlife Photography Awards (BWPA)

- Short listed Natural History Museum's Wildlife Photographer of the Year

 

Equipment

 

Camera: Nikon D3100

Lens: Nikon Nikkor 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 kit lens

Nikon Nikkor 50mm f/1.8 G

Nikon Nikkor 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6G VR

Tamron AF SP 90mm f/2.8 Di VC USD Macro

Tripod: Manfrotto 190XPROB + Manfrotto 494RC2 ballhead

Filter: Erno 52mm UV filter

Hoya Skylight 1A 52mm Filter

A random shutter release (I think by Calumet...)

Other: Passion

 

Terms & Conditions (I know boring!!)

 

I have the philosophy that photography and art and so it is meant to be seen and not kept only by the photographer.

 

Condensed version (read full!)

 

You are allowed to:

 

To Share: Copy, Distribute, and Transmit the image.

To Remix: Create Derivative works of the image.

To Use: An individual may use my images for Computer Backgrounds, blog post about a vist to some place etc any non-physical representation of my images. Look below for acceptable use

 

All images used must have have an attribution to Stuck with my Camera made along with the image.

  

You are not allowed, except with my permission, to:

 

To Print: any means of physical representation of my images

To Use Commercially: TV, Media

  

Licensing

 

Creative Commons License

 

With Creative Commons you are free:

 

To Share: Copy, Distribute, and Transmit the image

To Remix: Create Derivative works of the image

 

Under these conditions:

 

Attribution: Attribution to Stuck with my Camera must be made along with the image.

Non-Commercial: The image must not be used for commercial purposes under any circumstances.

 

Sample Accepted Use of the Creative Commons License:

 

Blog Post describing a trip to Somewhere (hope you had a good time!)

Online article discussing the growing popularity of photography (yes, I know, photography is SO freaking awsome!)

A website for a school project about the use of light in art (...boring)

An individual using an image as a desktop background for the computer monitor - note, this doe not include a print (You really like my pictures that much?)

 

License to Copyright

 

Commercial Use of my pictures included printing my images, use in books not published by me and Stuck with My Camera, used in posters etc.

 

If you have any queries, you can ask them by mailing me through my GMail (stuckwithmycameraphotography@gmail.com) or by leaving a comment at the bottom of the specific image.

 

Commercial use of my images is allowed only if expressly granted by me. My fees are based on the following criteria:

 

Media – print, web, television, etc.

Distribution Size – number of copies printed, viewing audience size, exposure (regional, national, international)

Length of Use – 1 year, 2 years, etc.

Prominence of Display – 1/4 page, 1/2 page, full page, spread, front cover, back cover, home page (online), interior page (online), etc.

 

Sample Use Requiring a License to Copyright:

 

A marketing campaign for a commercial entity

A fund-raising campaign for a not-for profit entity

A background image for a website about animals

License to create an individual print for use in a private home

 

- Modelled on the Terms of Use of Trey Radcliff, Stuck in Customs

 

Quotes I Like

 

“You never conquer a mountain. Mountains can't be conquered; you conquer yourself”

 

- James W. Whittaker

 

“If you aren't living on the edge, you are taking up too much space”

 

- James W. Whittaker

 

"Only those that risk going too far, can possibly find out how far they can go"

 

- T.S. Elliot

 

"Success is the ability to move from one failure to the next with no loss of enthusiasm"

 

- Winston Churchill

 

"Of course it's all luck"

 

- Henri Cartier-Bresson

 

"Which of my photographs is my favorite? The one I'm going to take tomorrow"

 

- Peter Lik

 

"Is this the summit, crowning the day? How cool and astonished... Have we vanquished an enemy? None but ourselves. Have we gained success? The word means nothing here. Have we won a kingdom? No... and yes... We have achieved an ultimate satisfaction...fulfilled a destiny.... To struggle and to understand-never this last without the other; such is the law.... "

- George Leigh Mallory writing of the Kuffner, the Frontier Ridge of Mount Maudit in France (1911)

 

"Well, we knocked the bastard off !"

- Edmund Hillary after summiting Everest with Tenzing Norgay in 1953

 

"Because it is there."

- George Mallory answering to the question 'Why do you want to climb Mt. Everest ?'

 

One Last Word

 

Like Bryan Peterson (check him out at Adorama TV) keeps saying...

 

YOU KEEP SHOOTING!