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I actually intended to try and do quite a straight portrait and include the horse at the side of me. I stood with my back to the horse with my camera at ...](http://publicenergy.co.uk/Projects/52-Weeks/20100306-1145-0017-Edit/803460292_nQg6M-Th.jpg "Portrait with a Clumber horse [10/52]
I actually intended to try and do quite a straight portrait and include the horse at the side of me. I stood with my back to the horse with my camera at ...")
Rainbow Remix of The Phantom Raspberry Blower
ChrisB on the YakYak forums has remixed it in to this… 
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Dave
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Dave
Fisheye Sky
I like this shot. It was taken on Saturday at Arbor Low in the Peak District. The fact that the walker was on a raised ridge and I was lower down, meant that I could point the camera up and get a hell of a lot of sky in shot.
I did have to use Lightroom’s graduated filter to even the exposure.
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Dave
Photo licensing
Recently, I’ve been involved in a situation where a photo was used without permission – this was possibly due to a misunderstanding of how the licence works. During the discussions that followed, with friends, and on Flickr, a few things came to light that I wasn’t that clear about either.
The licence on my Flickr photos is a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial licence.
This means you can:
- Share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work
- Remix – to adapt the work
Under the following conditions:
- Attribution – You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work)
- Noncommercial – You may not use this work for commercial purposes.
The licence goes to to say:
- For any reuse or distribution, you must make clear to others the license terms of this work. The best way to do this is with a link to this web page.
- Any of the above conditions can be waived if you get permission from the copyright holder.
For me, I chose this licence because it meant that non-commercial use was permitted as long as it was attributed to me. I don’t mind my photos being used free of charge for non-commercial things at all. In fact, lots of good things have come out of this.
Even though the licence says ‘non-commercial’ – it does go on to state that any of the conditions can be waived with permission from the copyright holder. This does happen – I’m sometimes approached by commercial entities who wish to use photos and because they’re commercial I expect them to pay for it.
My recent problem was with a commercial entity using my photo without the proper permission. I’m hoping this will be resolved quickly.
Aside from that though, based on these licences, I noticed other problems. A friend of mine who used the same licence had some of his photos used on a blog – but they were just embedded and there was no attribution to say who created the photo. The author thought they were doing the right thing because the photo linked to the original Flickr page when you clicked on it, but if you were just reading the page, you’d see a photo that was taken by somebody else, and it appears no credit was given. This is even worse if there’s a copyright statement at the bottom of the page, because you’re effectively claiming other people’s copyrighted work as your own!
Linking back to the original photo is better than nothing, but it’s far from the correct thing to do. Embedded photos should have a line of text below them attributing the owner – and if the licence is followed fully, it should also point out under which licence it is being used.
Flickr doesn’t make this easy though. Their default ‘Blog This’ templates do include the Flickr user name as text below the photo, but this is easily edited out. It’s not possible to include the licence in the template either. I have found a discussion in the Flickr Ideas group where Flickr staff mentioned they were working on making this better, which is good.
In the mean time, if you want to embed photos correctly, I’ve found this tool:
It generates embed code from Flickr pages, but follows the terms of the licence of that photo – the results are like the image at the top of this post.
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Brendadada
NIghtmare. Creative Commons just isn’t understood. In the end I decided to just go fully © and people can ask.
Love your new template.
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Dave Wild
Cheers. This is the link to the FlickrCentral discussion about this particular event: http://www.flickr.com/groups/central/discuss/72157615108077695/
It appears that Wickes went on a trolley dash around Flickr for their photos!
They had promised to get in touch with me today regarding payment, but that hasn’t happened yet – I would have thought as a damage limitation measure, the least they could do would be to keep their promise about that.
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Dave
Red Nose Day, originally uploaded by publicenergy.
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Dave
Flickr Collection on Getty Images
The Flickr Collection launched on Getty Images today. There are a selection of my images in there – mostly featuring cows it has to be said. There are currently 6 images, but I have a further 15 or so to review and prepare.
It’ll be interesting to see how this goes. It is good to know that people want images of cows. There’s no knowing what people want photos of though – so far this month I’ve been approached for photos of cows, a UFO and a rock that looks like somebody’s bottom.
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Dave
Photocamp Leeds 2009
I thoroughly enjoyed Photocamp Leeds 2008 last September. The first one was a huge success and the second one seemed better with more constant buzz as I wandered around and spoke to people. As a result of various sessions and conversations I’ve found so much stuff, my head is spinning!
Here is a short list of some of the things that really had an impact on me:
- Peer Lawther from the National Media Museum in Bradford did a session about their collaboration with Flickr on the Flickr Commons project. There’s an article in the British Journal of Photography about this:National Media Museum praises Flickr collaboration
The photo above is taken from the National Media Museum’s collection in Flickr Commons. It was also on one of Peer’s Moo cards that I didn’t pick entirely at random if I’m honest!
- The first session I attended in the morning was about travel photography. This was split in to two sections which were interesting in different ways. The first half was presented by Nick – this contained a lot of useful advice that only becomes obvious after you’ve been through the process and experienced or avoided the pitfalls. Nick has posted his slides here. Also check out his galleries.
In the second half of the same session, Ade Freeman talked us through some of his travel photographs. Lots of these were truly beautiful. As a result of seeing these, I tracked down his book and purchased a copy. - In the afternoon, I went to a session presented by John Dolan about his experiences doing a 365 set of self portraits. This kind of thing gets attempted by many people, but however you look at it, John has gone the extra mile and then some. I’ll be very surprised if at the end of the year he doesn’t want to take a year off to become a hermit and get away from cameras. The good thing from our point of view is that he’s produced a fascinating set of images that is still growing – and well worth a good browse:John FotoHouse – 365 Days
I went to other sessions and met and talked to lots of people and could go on typing here for a long time. This event was so very enjoyable. The good news seems to be that events like this should be happening in more and more places as time goes by. The UK Photocamps web site doesn’t give much away at the moment, but it’ll be worth keeping an eye on.
Finally, have a look through some of the photos taken at the event – there are more and more appearing all of the time: Photocamp Leeds 2009 photos on Flickr.
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Nick
Good to hear you enjoyed Ade’s and my presentation. I was nervous enough about presenting without discovering we were going first! But its always good to get positive feedback.
I think it must be your turn next time! How about “Horns and Hooves – Photographing Animals”?
My own presentation aside, I didn’t manage to attend the previous one so this was my first photocamp experience. As you mention there was so much going on it did leave me a little overwhelmed at times. My main problem is throughout the day there were always multiple presentation going on at the same time that I wanted to see. Choosing which to attend was the hard part.
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John Dolan (FotoHouse)
Thanks for the kind comments Dave. I really enjoyed the day too and having past the half way mark with the 365 I see some light at the end of a very long tunnel!
The main thing about the day, as you say, was the general buzz.
Looking forward to more photo networking later in the year!
- Peer Lawther from the National Media Museum in Bradford did a session about their collaboration with Flickr on the Flickr Commons project. There’s an article in the British Journal of Photography about this:National Media Museum praises Flickr collaboration
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Dave
Last Sunday I went to Wetlands Animal Park and Waterfowl Reserve near Retford in Nottinghamshire. It was a pretty cold day and it kept threatening to rain,but it was a very nice place to wander around. It was good to see some animals I’d never seen before. Particularly the Yak pictured above.
This nicely coloured sheep is actually a Cameroon Sheep.
The Yak again – top notch nose and tongue – impressive control too!
The Alpaca pictured below was funny. It was very interested in what I was doing, and after giving it some feed, it decided to follow me on it’s side of the fence while I was walking along the path on the other side. All the time though, it was looking directly at me instead of where it’s going – it was like it’s head was on rails! Very cute and very soft animal!
There are some more shots in this Wetlands Animal Park and Waterfowl Reserve 02/09.
John Dolan (FotoHouse), and 
Cain Doherty 12:35 pm on March 22, 2009 Permalink |
mad perspective!