This probably explains why I haven't said anything about anybody for the
past 30 years or so........

Thank you for that commentory Willa. It certainly shows my assesment
of your ability as photographer was spot on correct.
You know after the Mac's 10 year history of publishing calendars and
postcards (many of the calendars total sell outs year after year), I'd
recon your contribution could change the face of calendars in
Australia, nay, the world. Good one, mate. Now for your next trick are
you going to post your calendar covers? What about another "Photo of
the day"? Now that was a good idea, wasn't it? How long did it last? A
week, wasn't it? Naw... Just weak, eh?

You know, this is why you can't ever hope to be a Professional
Photographer. Do you not see the relationship between a wedding cake
and wedding gifts?
Here lies the clear evidence of your stupidity. All you see is a
cabinet that IN YOUR OPINION interferes with the picture. Wedding
Photographers are not unlike Photojournalists. They work with what
they can. When you try to be smart and post some of my photos before I
altered them, you are just showing people how bloody idiotic you
really are.

Nearly all the pictures I took in the house being restored under a
National Trust order, that you stole some of the shots from, had the
subjects lifted and put over other backgrounds. You never bothered to
write for a password to the wedding gallery, just thought how great it
would be to slap D-Mac around a bit. Now you are about to pay for your
crimes. Enjoy yourself while you can.

Images taken in National Parks and Defined Recreational areas by me or
Doug
do not require owner's of equipment operating in those areas to give
us
permission to reproduce any photographs we take. This includes web
images,
wedding photographs and posters we sell.

It's a complex issue, I grant you but the over riding fact is that we
have a
COMMERCIAL PHOTOGRAPHY permit from the management of the area that
plane is
taking off from. Wether or not Akuna have a permit to land in a
defined
recreational area or wether their floats are registered is their
business.
Why not take it up with them if you are so concerned?

Tangalooma wild dolphin resort have absolute control over the area
down to
low water and bounded by clearly defined markers either side and at
the rear
of the resort. That plane picked up a medical emergency patient from
the
resort on a day which would tax any bush pilot's skills at landing
and
taking off a seaplane.

The Queensland Environmental Protection Agency which incorporates the
Queensland Parks and Wildlife service, have control over the waters
from low
tide mark to an area encompassing the sea from which the plane took
off - as
a defined "Recreational Area" under the National Parks act.

FYI we have permits from the appropriate authorities for the entire
Australian continent and several off shore Islands as well as some of
Tasmania. Link to our permit for Queensland:
http://www.annika1980.com/evidence/permit.htm

Probably the reason Doug and his businesses are such "soft targets"
for the
idiots who attack him is because unlike them, he registered his
companies
and employees with every Australian department and authority likely to
need
a permit issued for commercial Photography and Photographic tour
activities.
This included listing his real name and contact details on any web
site he
may use to sell his photographs.

Now apart from your attempt to discredit me or Doug as doing
something
illegal, do you have any reason for bringing that crap up here?

JA