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October 23, 2006
Sun Shines Through
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October 23, 2006
The Lower Hudson River Valley
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October 3, 2006
Oh, Long Island, land of tractors and smokestacks
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September 24, 2006
Red Hook, Brooklyn: where one just so happens upon...
...delicious key lime pie baked in the basement of an old bottling plant in an otherwise desolate section of town.
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September 19, 2006
David Scola...
 ...is not only my very own and only brother. (For whatever reason, when people discover that I indeed have a brother, they demand, "older or younger?! OLDER OR YOUNGER?!" I'll say only that he's 33 years old and I'm not.) He's also one heck of a photographer. He's been doing as an avocation for years. Now, through the magic of the Internet, you can see for yourself. He shoots in black and white and perhaps I'm biased but I do think that he does nice work in picking up details and framing shots in a way that captures meaning beyond just what's in the picture.
He's just started showing his stuff and will be doing so this weekend at the outdoor Bloomsbury Fine Arts Festival along the banks of the Musconetcong River in Hunterdon County, New Jersey. If you happen to be in the area, please do check it out.
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September 7, 2006
Schmap and Photography
 A new outfit called Schmap emailed
to ask if they could use a use a photo of mine that I took while down
in Miami. The Schmappers, it seems,
troll Flickr for useable photos and
ask
the
photographers
to hand them over with full credit and without compensation. The photo
they asked of me is a very
seriously crappy one, but I still said okay. The
way Schmap works is that travel info is overlaid on a live mapping app,
and
photos of some of the sights
are flashed in the right side bar. The
images link up to the original Flickr pages
from whence
the photos
came. (For
you licensing geeks, my photo was licensed by Flickr under a traditional
"all rights reserved" copyright. I admit, with sheepishness,
that it never occurred to how my Flickr photos are licensed. Turns out
that Flickr
does let you set Creative Commons on your work. That's fantastic,
but I'd like to reserve the right for folks to have to ask permission,
like the Schmap folks did, for how they use my photographs. I just do,
and
so I'm leaving traditional copyright intact until I see fit to do otherwise.
Wow, this is quite a long parenthetical. But forge on with me for a moment.
The Schmap terms of use I agreed to when I said, sure, use my photo were
on a page that reloaded and disappeared after I clicked "Okay." From
what I can scrape from the site, I gather that the Schmapped photo retains
the same licensing terms as it did before, especially considering that
what they use is really a thumbnail that links right through to Flickr.)
I could be
troubled with the idea of not paying photographers for their work and
then turning and building a business model on the
idea.
I like photography a good bit, and we should pay to support the arts
we like. But come on, how good does a photo of a hotel have to be?
What's wrong with me taking a few snapshots during my travels and sharing
them
with folks who are in turn going to offer them at no cost to others
who might then use them to plan their own journeys? Maybe some travel
guide
photographer might be out of a gig or two, but then again she can save
money by downloading free travel guides.
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September 4, 2006
One Bad Lookin' Beetle
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August 21, 2006
I call this one "Hose"
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August 15, 2006
3 sailboats in the Long Island Sound
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August 14, 2006
Sailing the Long Island Sound
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August 14, 2006
Adjusting the Backstay
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August 8, 2006
13th Street life guard stand
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August 8, 2006
Views from Miami
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August 6, 2006
11th Street Life Guard Stand
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July 25, 2006
Motivational Poster
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July 24, 2006
A Cloud, the Strangest I've Seen
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July 18, 2006
Develop Don't Destroy Brooklyn Rally
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