My Short Fame

I think I just proved they will let anyone who pays into these contests. The following two photos were entered into National Geographic photo contest.  The first one was selected and published on their website. (National Geographic has taken down the site.)

Between Hebron and Kouts on Rt. 8, September 17, 2010

W 1800 S in La Crosse, September 17, 2010

I am a amateur photographer. I began shooting film around 1968 as a child using my parents Kodak 127 camera, and a Pentax. I wish I new enough back then to keep the negatives. I took a lot of photos of experimental aircraft at the EAA convention. I bought my own 35mm SLR in 1971, which was a Sears / Ricoh TLS. I loved that fully manual camera with the built in TTL meter.

The one thing I do not do today with my digital photographs is to alter them in programs like Photoshop. To me the digital age allows you to get away with shooting anything, and correcting it later. The above photos were not altered. This is how they turned out, shooting against the sun, using the camera settings to get me there. If you have been around developing, you will understand the aches and pains at times of enlarging, dodging, filtering. You really need to understand the makeup of photography to get what you want. Film gets you there. Digital does not necessarily do that.

Currently I own a Mamiya 645S, Cannon EOS 650, and my first ever camera bought with my own money, the Sears / Ricoh TLS. The digital camera I use is a Cannon EOS Rebel XS. The photos above were taken with the XS.

Through a divorce we gave up another Mamiya 645S (brand new), an Omega 45D, a Nikon F2 that was bought in trade for a worn out Cannon AE1. We also gave up my families old bellows 120 camera. The photographer in the family was the wife. Unfortunately as things turned out, she is no longer doing her photography and I have been just plugging along.

As I find new things around NW Indiana, and revisit the old, I will be shooting with the XS for ease of uploading to this blog. I sort of feel I am getting lazy, not using my film cameras. But the point in life is to have fun, and right now the XS is fun.

Update: Today I do use Lightroom, and when needed Photoshop. I have upped my game in camera gear in order to handle low light situations, shooting at the highest ISO I can at times. My son now has the XS camera. I loved that little think because it was light weight. Sometimes I wished I still had it readily available.

This blog post was written before I chose to take the deep dive into digital photograph, which was December 27th, 2011, at Paul Henry's Art Gallery in Hammond, Indiana.

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Loyal Plastic Robots

Bob Sherman, Lead Vocal, Guitar, Bass Guitar

Pete Calacci, Lead Guitar, Vocal

Chris Wander, Keyboards, Vocal 

Ed Fell, Drummer, Vocal

Danny Mac, Bass Guitar, Guitar, Vocal

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You can check out their past performances that I photographed at StreetPhoto.ME. Near the end of the page is a strip of thumbnails for those events.

Video Clips

Here are a few short vids of The Robots performance.  Additional vids can be found on in the blogs above.

Bushby Family . . .

I am going to dedicate this blog entry to my relatives.  I don't get to see them much.  Facebook has kept us in touch, and I get to see some of the cool stuff they do.  Here are some photos from cousin's daughter Emily Bushby. One cool girl. The cookies she made for EAA 2023!!!

Photo of Emily and my dad taken at the seaplane base, circa 2014.

This photo Emily took of herself. Seems like a long time ago, circa 2013.

My cousins David and Harvey, taken by me about 1968 I think, at EAA convention when it was in Rockford, IL.

Next photo is from my cousin Gwen, taken 3/2012 . . .

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Copyright

As stated at copyright.gov, "Copyright, a form of intellectual property law, protects original works of authorship including literary, dramatic, musical, and artistic works, such as poetry, novels, movies, songs, computer software, and architecture." Images and photos are additional items of intellectual property. You do not have any legal right to use other's intellectual property.

So, to help better explain my copyright intent:

My blog entries and their content are not public domain, and are under the copyright of Wes Bushby, Wes Bushby Photography, Wesley Bushby, Wesley Bushby Media, Wesley R. Bushby or other aliases that may be found in blogs or any other source. This also extends to any creative work I may put up or may be found on Facebook or Instagram, videos on YouTube, news publications whether in print or electronic, in advertisement, (just to name a few) or any other type media where information is exchanged.

All of the above (and any other source not listed) are protected by copyright law, all rights reserved and some rights granted to others as outlined in the numbered paragraphs below.

To put it simply, anywhere my creative work can be found under any alias is copyright protected. So, get permission to use. If approved, you will be granted a license, limited use, or other use.

To avoid a lot of requests that I will generally give favor to, I will grant limited use of a photograph(s) and its content in my blog of my creativity under the following numbered requirements. This does not include granting use of any creative work in my blog that is not my own. When the numbered requirements below do not apply to my blog, it will be noted early in the blog. Editing of my creative work is not allowed, which includes cropping or removing my watermark or digital signature, without first obtaining my permission. Note that the use of the word "blog" extends to all media where my work may be found.

1. If you are an individual or part of a group mentioned in writing in my blog, or have a photograph of you in my blog, AND you intend to use it for home use only, then there is nothing else you have to do. Feel free to copy, download, or print. NOTE: Home use means it will be for personal use only, and not for distribution, advertisement, or any other venture where the original creator of the work would normally expect credit and compensation; Home use means for your first hand personal and noncommercial use only.

2. If you are an individual or part of a group mentioned in writing in my blog, or have a photograph of you in my blog, AND you intend to only post a copy on your personal website such as Facebook, Instagram, Myspace, or put on a website or other social media, you may do so as long as adjacent credit of my original work is given back to Wes Bushby, and whenever possible a hyper-link back to WesBushby.com. NOTE: This is not for other distribution, advertisement, or any other venture where the original creator of the work would normally expect credit and compensation; This is for personal and noncommercial use only; Re-printing other than first hand personal use is not allowed.

3. If you are a Society or Organization (organizations using *.org) mentioned in a writing in my blog, or have a photograph of you in my blog, you may copy, download, use on a Society or Organizational website only if you provide adjacent credit back to Wes Bushby, AND a hyper-link back to WesBushby.com. NOTE: This is not for other distribution, advertisement, or any other venture where the original creator of the work would normally expect credit and compensation; This is for Society and Organization non-profit web page use only; Re-printing is not authorized unless otherwise approved.

4. If you or your work are shown in my blog and you are in the Arts, whether it be a band or individual musician, a theater group presentation or improv, an artist, even another photographer (just to name a few), you have permission to share the blog(s) or any part of its content, including photographs. This includes my Roller Derby blogs. I ask that you provide adjacent credit to Wes Bushby, and wherever feasible give a hyperlink back to the blog which it came from, or to StreetPhoto.ME. Those in the arts and Roller Derby are given permission to crop out the watermark or digital signature in the photograph and to crop the size to fit your needs.

5. This copyright page has also been protected by law. Many people go as far as to state their copyright verbiage has a copyright. I do not care when it comes to this page. Why reinvent the wheel when in the end we are saying and wanting the same thing. Feel free to copy this page, these statements, and change to your name. Do realize I am not a lawyer. I am only presenting what the law already protects, and I am giving limited licensing to certain individuals, groups, and organization that I will support, in order to save time for all involved asking for permission.

If you do not fit into any of the above numbered requirements, please make a request for permission. The granted permission may or may not include additional requirements. Please make contact through WesBushby[at]gmail.com.

Copyright protection of original work is a law. Please respect and give common courtesy to the original creators of work. It is better to be friends than enemies, because it will cost you time and money for not first obtaining permission. I am sure if you follow the guidelines of copyright law, you will find most, if not all, creators of original work will be willing to extend permission with few, if any, limitations. Do, however, be prepared for potential licensing and original creator compensation from me or any other original creator of work in response to a request. And, get your checkbook ready if you have not asked and have not obtained permission!

If in doubt, ask, because that part is always free. Enjoy the blogs!

Last note, check back periodically for my latest copyright. Last updated 3/29/2024.

Hot Air Balloons

More hot air balloons, the lighter than air aircraft that everyone enjoys! Another late blog, photographed in 2010, and put up today September 27th, 2016. This was a trip to Detroit to see one of my customers who was having a problem. On the way there, somewhere around Kalamazoo (might have even been Kalamazoo) I saw some these balloons north of I-94. I was not sure what they were doing, but wanted to investigate. Glad I did. They were doing some king of run, and one leg had them steer to a target to drop their flag on. It was cool to see them dodge each other, get position over one another, drop, swing their flag with a weight on the end, and let it fly to the target. After, they had to do a full burn to get out of there because other balloons were right behind them, let alone trees if front. This first photo was the drive to Detroit, near Cline Avenue. I took that photo to start my journey, and boy did it end up a fun one.

Enjoy!

I was zigzagging all through town trying to find where these puffs of art were diving at. I finally got through the maze of streets.

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