2008 Maine Moose Lottery Pictoral Highlights

While I was busy interviewing and pounding away on my laptop keyboard trying to improve audio quality and keep the streaming going to over a thousand viewers, Milt Inman and his son Gregg Inman were just as busy behind the scenes. Milt was taking pictures, keeping people from in front of the camera lens, etc., while Gregg passed out decals, helped with set-up and technology difficulties and made some in-roads with fellow media experts.

All of the photos shown below are those of Milt Inman, Chief Photographer for Skinny Moose Media.

A sampling of some of the crowd of an estimated 600 in attendance at the 2008 Maine Moose Lottery drawing hosted by the Kittery Trading Post.

We were given a great spot to set up. Our operation stood out among all the media present for the event. As you can see, we had our own table right up front next to the main table where Emcee Regis Tremblay, Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife, was and guest readers announced the names of around 3,000 lucky recipients of a Maine moose permit. That is Milt with his back to you standing in front of me banging away on the laptop.

I would also like to point out that during the event we had over 6,000 page views on the Skinny Moose Media site where viewers could go and watch. I also had the same video viewer loaded on to several other sites of which I don’t have all the statistics for. At one time we had over 400 viewers on at once. With over 6,000 page views that results in several hundred and into the thousands of individual viewers who tuned in to see what was going on.

In the picture from left to right are: Chris Cobbett of Northwoods Adventures TV, I’m in the middle holding the microphone, Nate Fenderson of Northwoods Adventures TV and in the front middle is Nate Fenderson’s son, who was hoping against all hope that his name would be drawn. He was disappointed as were thousands of others.

Nate and Chris can be found traveling North America on hunting trips and filming it to be played on their cable channel’s show, Northwoods Adventures TV. Both Nate and Chris have a blog site with Skinny Moose Media. They had their own booth set up outside the tent and I got them to rush over and do an interview just before the drawing of names began.

Gregg Inman is on your right. When not running for me, Gregg had a chance to chat with another media member from WCXU Radio up in “The County” - Aroostook County in Northern Maine for those who may not know. I apologize that I do not have the name of the guy sitting with Gregg. It seems they enjoyed each other’s company as I saw them laughing quite a bit at comments made between the two of them.

I also had a chance to interview Michael J. Witte. Michael is a member of the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife Advisory Council. The Advisory Council works as a liaison between IFW and the citizens across the state. One thing they are very active in is landowner relationships.

It was a lot of work and a lot of fun. We hope that we can cover next year’s drawing which will be held in Fort Kent, “The County”!

Tom Remington