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Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Did a Moose Just Walk Through My Picture?!


I was at the Reno Air Races this weekend with my two youngest kids when we came across the Jelly Belly plane... and they were handing out free Jelly Bellys!!  We've been to the JB factory in California so, of course, my kids wanted me to take their picture in front of the plane.  I had my 70-200mm lens so I needed to step back a little to get my kids and the plane in the shot. 

They posed, I shot, and as I did, this guy strolled between right through the scene.  No problem... I''d just wait for the guy to move on through and retake the shot.  But this guy was with some other photographers and they all stopped in front of me.  The guy who had strolled through our picture REALLY liked the Jelly Belly plane.  He took a picture of it with his camera (a professional grade Nikon) and then he took a picture with his phone. 

That was when I noticed that the guy looked kind of familiar.  He had this big ol' mustache.  Then it dawned on me!  Moose Peterson, the world renown wildlife photographer, and one of my personal photog heros, had walked through my picture.  He was heavily engaged in a conversation with the photographers he was with and I didn't want to interupt.  So I didn't say anything like, "Oh my God!  It's Moose Peterson!"  I kinda wish I had... but it's just not my style.  I did take this photo though... real stealth like.  Maybe I'll print it out and see if he'll sign it when I'm at the Photoshop World Conference in Vegas in two weeks.



Moose took some great photos at the air races.  Check them out at his website.

Hope you enjoyed the story.

Keep shooting!

Ryan

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