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Images and Ideas from Life and Elsewhere
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Images and Ideas from Life and Elsewhere 
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July 29, 2009 at 12:07 pm
Paul Martin
Your photos of Cooper’s Hawk was helpful in identifying one that has been hanging around our home in Apopka, Fl. I have taken a few photos of her? recently and yesterday got a bonus as she killed and ate a grove mouse in our front yard maybe 30 feet from a window. I was able to get several pics as she consumed the mouse and later as she perched in a camphor tree about 20 feet above our back door. It appears to be immature and probably female but may be young male.
Thanks for your help,
Paul Martin
November 20, 2009 at 3:44 am
Jeffrey Scholnick
Dear Mr. Winters:
I just started a blog for members of my local bar assn who, like me, are in small firms. It is an attempt to help local attorneys in Baltimore County deal w/the Recession. I saw your blog on the home page of WordPress & opened it up.
This is a beautiful blog. The photos are fabulous. You have amazing content.
Much continued success.
November 20, 2009 at 1:42 pm
Anne Werner
First question is curiousity but how do you copyright all the stuff on what I guess is a blog page (sorry I don’t know much about blogging really). You say that stuff is copywrited but don’t you have to pay someone to copy right (write?) it? I have only copyrighted one thing and I have to pay a small fee to make it happen.
Next, you asked about the lesson from 9/11. It is “be aware and alert, don’t get cocky, and make sure you cover your butt.” The US was not following any of these in 2001. I would like to think we are doing so a little bit more now. And yeah, I’m one of those conspiracy theory people who think there were people that knew alot more than they let on (just like Pearl Harbor, I mean, come on). Nothing like a good attack on our native soil to get everyone all riled up so you can then easily justify invading another country, getting into a war…
And as for the whole selfish pursuit thing before taking care of the less forunate of our fellow beings – well you have to look at the big picture and, since you walk out in the woods alot (and take really nice pictures, by the way) consider the law of nature – its survival of the fittest. It is not in the nature of any creature to take care of their less fortunate fellow creatures, except humans. As humans we are at a constant struggle within ourselves between taking care of No. 1 – natural instinct, and helping others and/or following the golden rule. As I was writing to a friend of mine the other day, humans are the only animal that actually takes the time to think – “was this food treated humanely prior to it getting to my plate?” (see “Consider the Lobster”) and we actually have a large number of people on the planet who volunteerly don’t eat meat.
Its a tough world. Speak softly, but carry a really big stick.
November 20, 2009 at 2:48 pm
frankwinters
Hi Anne,
thanks for your comments and questions.
As to world hunger and 9/11 I’ll leave my answer to a future post or six.
But regarding copyright I have a simple one: I understand that original works whether written or visual are automatically copyright protected. Some folks think that if something is posted on the Internet — as here in my blog — it is not protected and anything goes. This is untrue. We have copyright laws to protect original works. This includes works that incorporate the work of others. I do refer to the work of others but never in isolation. Hence my posts are original. (There are some of my posts that may infringe on the work of others at least in the mind of others — for example Christo and Jeanne-Claude always maintained that no photos of their installations could be legally taken. I do not agree with this but it is a matter of controversy. Nevertheless I maintain that all of my posts are my copyright protected intellectual property regardless of any controversial elements to be found therein).
See this link for a pretty clear explanation:
http://www.bitlaw.com/copyright/obtaining.html
Thanks again,
Frank
October 26, 2010 at 12:23 pm
maira wilding quéno
I woul like to ask your permission to use your beautiful photo of the two birds and the bird house, which woud be perfect to be used on the cover of a calendar ,which we distribute among the medical doctors from our town.I work in the Laboratorio Evangelico, in Anápolis, Brazil.
My husband has some beautiful photos of birds, his name is Laurent Quéno. I am Biochemist and my husband is a Forest Engineer. How could we send you a donation? Thank you !
Maira
October 26, 2010 at 1:03 pm
Frank Winters
Hello Maira,
Thanks for your interest in my photo. I am willing to permit you to use it for the purpose you describe — and am very pleased that it will be on the cover!
I can send a file of higher resolution than the one on my blog, please let me know if that will be helpful.
I am also pleased that you are offering to pay me something for using it. I think a payment of $25 will be acceptable given the nature of you project. And… if possible would you send me a copy of the calendar?
I used to publish a calendar for our local conservation trust in Westford Ma so I have some interest in the form.
Best Wishes,
Frank
October 26, 2010 at 6:22 pm
Frank Winters
Dear Maira,
I neglected to tell you how to pay for the use of my photo.
you can use PayPal — my paypal address is fwinters @verizon.net. Or please send me an email and I’ll let you have my address for the mail.
Best,
Frank
November 7, 2010 at 9:21 pm
maira wilding quéno
Hello Frank,
I am sorry for not writting sooner. Thank you so much for your great help!
I have a brother who lives in the USA and he is going to pay you ($25).
He is going to use PayPall.
I could send you a copy of the calendar , please send me your address.
All the Best!
Maira
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March 25, 2011 at 7:52 pm
Frank Winters
Hello Anna,
Thanks for your offer. However my blog is a personal one — I am the only writer because its about my thoughts and photographs.
Cheers,
Frank
November 12, 2011 at 10:05 pm
lisa nicoll
Mr. Winters,
I have just had the good fortune of finding your site (via a search for “red tailed hawk with squirrel”), and then the good sense to stick around and read a few of your entries. What a delightful evening tonight has been, seeing your photos and reading your words, which sound so naturally and carefully turned and tended.
Thank you!
Lisa Nicoll
lisanicoll.com
November 13, 2011 at 10:12 am
Frank Winters
Thank you Lisa — thanks for the encouragement. Coming from a professional editor and writer I take it as high praise. I’ll spend some time at your website to see what I can learn. I’ve just been thinking I should write more frequently and your post is a strong nudge in the right direction.
Best Wishes,
Frank
November 19, 2011 at 11:06 pm
lisa nicoll
Hello Frank,
I’m glad you liked my comments, and appreciate your looking at my site and posting here in response. I’ve just read your Walden entry and really, really enjoyed it and your photos, especially since I grew up in Mass. And I love your photos of art lovers loving art. “Phoning Motherwell” is a beautiful, perfect image, I think. (I am not an art critic. When I say “perfect” I am talking about its poetry and about my personal response to the visual–how it makes me feel. Which, in this case, is “happy I am alive and seeing this!”)
Thank you!
Lisa