Author Topic: Fresh meat or faux treat... (Read 39725 times)

JC w KC redux · « **on:** July 22, 2015, 03:01:13 PM »

Does anyone recognize these pinnacles from the latest NPS postcard?
I thought I did at first but some of the summits don't jive.

mudworm · « **Reply #1 on:** July 22, 2015, 04:49:18 PM »

*sigh* It happened again -- this is not the first time cheating was spotted. Do people not research their material any more? (Previous time: see the "Can anyone identify this climb?" thread.)

And why? Does Pinnacles not offer one single possible beautiful shot to make it to its own postcard cover??? Not a single one?

Is this a shot from Mexico?
http://izismile.com/2009/05/15/mexico_landscapes_very_beautiful_45_pics.html

Yet here it is captioned "Watching the sunset from the Alabama Hills"
https://www.flickr.com/photos/wwwca/

There are still more references to this photo online and everyone is calling it their own shot and naming it whatever that suits them. Cheater cheater everywhere!

JC w KC redux · « **Reply #2 on:** July 22, 2015, 04:55:04 PM »

Can't get your links to work mudworm

The rock color doesn't look right either - looks like desert varnish on JTree or Alabama Hills granitics? weird...

mudworm · « **Reply #3 on:** July 22, 2015, 04:55:29 PM »

Quote from: JC w KC redux on July 22, 2015, 04:55:04 PM

Can't get your links to work mudworm

The rock color doesn't look right either - looks like desert varnish on JTree or Alabama Hills granitics? weird...

Fixed.

NOAL · « **Reply #4 on:** July 22, 2015, 05:09:54 PM »

I think I've seen those on the Condor Gulch Trail on the way to the High Peaks. They are maybe 2 or 3 feet tall.

JC w KC redux · « **Reply #5 on:** July 22, 2015, 05:11:47 PM »

Quote from: JC w KC redux on July 22, 2015, 04:55:04 PM

The rock color doesn't look right either - looks like desert varnish on JTree or Alabama Hills granitics? weird...

Nailed that one didn't I? Thanks for the links mudworm.

F4? · « **Reply #6 on:** July 22, 2015, 05:13:43 PM »

Should have stayed a Monument.....now the pressure has lead to cheating.

JC w KC redux · « **Reply #7 on:** July 22, 2015, 05:34:31 PM »

I'd like to talk to the person that purchased those postcards for the park.

NOAL · « **Reply #8 on:** July 22, 2015, 05:47:24 PM »

^^Uhoh. Could be that guy that told us that the Condors hang out in the afternoons by the visitor center and not at Tuff Dome. That dude would make a postcard that said California Condor with a Turkey Vulture on it.

clink · « **Reply #9 on:** July 22, 2015, 07:00:04 PM »

Whatever, please rebolt them for us.
Thanks

F4? · « **Reply #10 on:** July 22, 2015, 07:20:50 PM »

The condors are not at condor crags???

We can take it back!!!!

And rebolt.

mungeclimber · « **Reply #11 on:** July 22, 2015, 10:48:39 PM »

Quote from: JC w KC redux on July 22, 2015, 03:01:13 PM

Does anyone recognize these pinnacles from the latest NPS postcard?
I thought I did at first but some of the summits don't jive.

Extremely distasteful image.

mynameismud · « **Reply #12 on:** July 23, 2015, 07:15:11 AM »

does not look familiar to me.

Gavin · « **Reply #13 on:** July 25, 2015, 06:33:33 AM »

Wow, that's frustrating... Definitely not from Pinnacles N.P. It does look like the Alabama Hills. I'll try to talk to Linda Regan (at the Visitor Center) about it.

clink · « **Reply #14 on:** July 25, 2015, 07:43:23 AM »

Real treats this morning. Due north of the Alabama Hills.

JC w KC redux · « **Reply #15 on:** July 25, 2015, 08:10:13 AM »

Quote from: Gavin on July 25, 2015, 06:33:33 AM

Wow, that's frustrating... Definitely not from Pinnacles N.P. It does look like the Alabama Hills. I'll try to talk to Linda Regan (at the Visitor Center) about it.

Thanks for the follow up Gavin. I also saw that same pic on another site (Bill Wight Photography) saying it is in the Hills and the image is copyrighted.

I would really like to see some of your pictures on the postcards

Quote from: clink on July 25, 2015, 07:43:23 AM

Real treats this morning. Due north of the Alabama Hills.

How many Hills routes did you do clink? I see temps are similar to Pinns.
Lots of good stuff there in the shade early and late - multiple corridors too.
Or are you just working on the muffin top?

Brad Young · « **Reply #16 on:** July 25, 2015, 09:10:07 AM »

Quote from: JC w KC redux on July 25, 2015, 08:10:13 AM

I would really like to see some of your pictures on the postcards

The obvious solution for so many reasons.

I think that the Park will be concerned about whether their postcard supplier/producer has involved them (unintentionally) in a copyright violation too.

mynameismud · « **Reply #17 on:** July 25, 2015, 09:19:26 AM »

Unless that guy was paid for that pic. It is disappointing that they cannot find a good pic of the Pinnacles to use. One more vote for a Gavin pic.

Gavin · « **Reply #18 on:** July 25, 2015, 10:29:34 AM »

Thanks for the support, gang. Believe it or not, from a business perspective it is hard to price professional-looking postcards at a price that is profitable for the photographer and inexpensive enough for visitors to buy it, even producing cards in bulk. But I'll chat with Linda and see what she says.

waldo · « **Reply #19 on:** July 27, 2015, 05:48:37 PM »

I vote for a Gavin pic. My friend Ed Haskell has some good ones, too.

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