I was idly putting off getting back to work, and opened up a practical fishkeeping magazine email, clicked on a random email...and up pops an article headed with one of MY photos!

http://www.practicalfishkeeping.co.uk/pfk/pages/item.php?news=2057

I was a bit surprised to not have been told, as generally I request on all my images that I am informed of use, but other than that theyre available under creative commons.

After a bit of sleuthing I found out it wasnt on my site, but flickr. So it was put on in my early days on that site (not used it in over a year I think!) and put as creative commons, but I didnt state to be informed or how to give credit.

Ive emailed an editor to ask if its possible to change the reference to my name (and if possible a link to my site) but if not, not to worry!

Still in shock a little. I know of a couple of other sites that have pinched photos off of flickr and my site in the past, which is cool!

at a minimum you should state that you want recognition for your work & make as part of the conditions for using your photo.

Thats what the creative commons licence is, or at least, cc 2.0 which that image was.

I did get recognition for it, but it was my flickr username, rather than my name.

I will need to go through all my flickr photos that are there as stock type images and change the description I think!

Ok, Ive editted the photos on flickr. Just out of interest I googled zpyder and christ theres more than I thought that had been used. I wonder whether the effort of emailing me will put people off!

check the website again... its got your name and website on it now

Aye, they were pretty quick on it, which is nice. I guess they feared a law suit or something, even though I said it was no biggy.

Theres about a dozen sites that have used things off of my flickr account now. Couple are in deutch or something! Ive made a list (hey, its nice to see something Ive made be used by someone else without me asking/tell them to use it!)

Im glad my HL2 avatars are still in use too

http://www.zpyder.co.uk/index.php?option=com_weblinks&view=category&id=36&Itemid=72

I love your HL2 Avatars

for some reason yours arent animated!

Yeah, theres only 1 forum where its animated and thats Eurogamer. Weird but still cool

Something to do with you converting it to a PNG?

Didnt know I had but probably

Since no one has said it ... congratulations on getting so many photos used! Very impressive.

Plus its great for CVs and the like.

Yeah. Im a bit gutted tbh that I didnt think to check earlier. There was a job advertised a while back for media researchers for a project which is hoping to make an international database of wildlife media (photos and videos) - think of it as an online wildlife identification guide.

I applied but I didnt even get through to interview..even though I was employed as an environmental sciences researcher at the time, have a 1st in environmental sciences, excellent IT skills, and as can be seen, a keen interest in wildlife photography! >< If I had been able to say about this stuff it might have had a bit of weight for getting to interview!

Cool photo  

Ragworm are bad enough with their evil pincers-of-fingers. I cant imagine a 4 foot long bastard like that but Id be straight down the beach with a 4/0 hook.

Theyre pretty common in tanks, people dont even know theyre there, and often when they do, not how big they are. I had one in my tank, only ever saw 2" of it, but am guessing it was near the 1 mark!

Check this out though...

http://www.oregonreef.com/sub_worm.htm

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