In 1980 I was fired from the newspaper where I was working because they found me tough to get along with...while I was cleaning out my desk I heard on the radio that Mt. St. Helens had puffed some steam that morning and geologists thought the mountain might be waking up. "That should give me something to do," I said to myself glumly. Three months later I got this shot from an airplane. It was on the cover of Newsweek and several European magazines. Copyright 1980, 1997 James Mason/Black Star. Later on...this image has been up for three months now. I recently discovered that somebody had appropriated it for a commercial website. Not cool. The guy will be paying me several thousand dollars shortly, and his lawyer must have cost him $3,000. If he had emailed me for permission I might have let him use it for free. Stealing is not nice. The laws are very clear about these things and recovery of damages is easy.