Thought I would take a minute to share a current television commercial that features not only my July 5th haboob time lapse, but my buddy Mike Olbinski’s as well. And before you ask, yes, it was licensed. :-)
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National Geographic
I have a confession to make. I have been keeping a little secret. Granted, some of my friends and family already know this, but I haven’t really made it public, until now.
My July 5th dust storm (haboob) time lapse video is going to be included in a National Geographic documentary next year. I can’t begin to tell you how excited I am about this. To have anything recognized by NatGeo is a huge thing for me, to have them actually license it from me and pay me for it is almost more than I could have ever dreamed of.
I am not really sure why I have been keeping this a secret, unless subconsciously I keep thinking that this is going to jinx things. Of course, the check has already been cashed and that money went into buying some new near, including my new Nikon D7000, I guess it is pretty safe to say that it is actually going to happen. :-)
One week later
I thought it was time to post a little update about everything that has been going on since I posted my haboob time lapse video last week. The only word that really comes close to describing everything that happened would be surreal. The amount of traffic to my photography site has been incredible. Combined photo/video views have now reached 2,079,105 in the last 7 days. While 1,144,052 of those views have been of the time lapse, the other 935,053 have been to my still images. To be able to say that your images have been seen almost a million times in one week is very humbling.
As you may know, the video has been seen all over the world as well as on every major news network as well as affiliate stations here in the US. I have had multiple documentary film makers ask me to include the video in projects that they are working on. I have had a lot more interest from people wanting to buy prints of my work, and what might be the most exciting about all of this is that I now have an agency representing my photography world-wide.
I came to realize though all of this that I needed to get caught up on registering my images, as well as the time lapse video, with the Copyright Office. I have done this in the past, but it is one of those things that can easily “fall though the cracks” if you are not careful. I am altering my workflow to include creating copies of the image for regular submission. If you are a photog I strongly suggest that you look into registering your work. They have made it much easier than it used to be, and it isn’t very expensive. The protections it gives you if someone does steal your work can pay for the registration 100′s if not 1000′s of times over.
I am sure that there are a hundred other things that I am forgetting but should put in this post, but perhaps that will simply lead to a follow up of the follow up. :-)
Oh yeah, almost forgot, this image is one of the stills used to create the time lapse video. Please click on it to see a larger version.
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