Gary Crabbe / Enlightened Images

I promised myself that today would be the day that I’d put the first official post into my new blog. Unfortunately, it’s a few minutes past midnight, so my today was yesterday, and now it’s tomorrow. C’est laVie.

So, without further ado, I’d like to welcome my gestated baby blog into the world.

For me, this is the perfect image to start this new venue with, as it represents with graphic strength the concept of launching, and flight, and forward motion.
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This is one of the remaining Pre-Launch blog posts, originally set to test functionality. I have since modified this post, and edited it for content.

Picture: Tourist couple hiking on wood plank trail through the Salt Creek Nature area, Death Valley National Park, California.

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More Death Valley Pictures in our Online Photo Gallery.

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This is one of the remaining Pre-Launch blog posts, originally set to test functionality. I have since modified this post, and edited it for content.

Picture: Pelicans on coastal rocks in fog, near San Simeon, San Luis Obispo County, Central Coast, California

I consider this one of my favorite bird photos. I’m not much of an avian shooter, but I do appreciate those that are different from the ’standard’. I always love the fog, and I often say it is because it shrinks your world. Everything beomes very soft, quiet, and intimate. This pair of pelicans sitting in the mist just seem to be taking it all in quiet stride.

This is one of the remaining Pre-Launch blog posts, originally set to test functionality. I have since modified this post, and edited it for content.

Photo: Mule Deer buck in forest at Dorst Creek, Sequoia National Park, California.

This image was taken over the summer, at about 6′500 feet in the western slope of the Sierra Nevada.

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This is one of the remaining pre-launch entries to test functionality. It has been edited for content.

An excellent article has been posted on the Concurring Opinions blog, called What If Copyright Law Were Strongly Enforced in the Blogosphere? by Daniel J. Solove. In the feature, he ponders what would happen if the mainstream media outlets started really enforcing copyright to much of their content, and how it would effect blogging and bloggers.

In the article, he writes:

We bloggers have, to put it mildly, a very robust concept of fair use. Fair use of copyrighted material is a fuzzy concept, and judges use four factors to determine if a use is fair:

1. the purpose and character of your use
2. the nature of the copyrighted work
3. the amount and substantiality of the portion taken
4. the effect of the use upon the potential market

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This is one of the remaining Pre-Launch blog posts, originally set to test functionality. I have since modified this post. Since this is the holiday sesason, I wanted to post an appropriate image. This picture was taken in December several years back.

Photo: Winter sunrise at Fallen Leaf Lake, near Lake Tahoe, California

See more Lake Tahoe Area pictures in our online image gallery.

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