I just removed ALL MY PHOTOGRAPHS AND MY SO-CALLED FAN PAGE FROM FACEBOOK. Yes – I decided that they were being way too tricky. Their language reminds me of something from a Marx Brothers movie. You own your photos. (That’s good to know). Once posted, FACEBOOK can do whatever they want with them. Huh? And believe me, when I say that this is tricky, it is tricky and meant to be so. In fact, the devil is in the lack of details and the circuitous language.
UPDATE: MAY 21
The big boy is a lot better. He’s had three IVs to hydrate him. Three antibiotic shots (long lasting) and I give him (or try to give him) antibiotic every day. The diagnosis was a severe kidney infection. It really kept me hopping all week. A bunch of stuff I was supposed to do I put off to take care of him. Now he’s really improving quickly. The vets were very smart – not taking him to the hospital because the last time he was there he was so freaked out that they had to tranquilize him fairly often. And last night was a good sign. The vets’ assistant finished giving him the IV (I think that’s the last one) and Buddy absolutely hissed at him and tried to take him out. That’s the Buddy I’ve come to know and love. Later, he was able to hop up on my bed and curl up in the corner while I slept.
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I don’t know how it is with dogs, but with cats, it really is hard to know what’s wrong with them. I’ve seen Buddy like this before, a few years back. He had the strength to climb into the empty bathtub, curl up and pretty much just lie there all day. That time, I gave him water with an eye-dropper, and nursed him through it.
This looks like the same thing. Is it a virus? I don’t know. But this time (it began yesterday morning) he didn’t have the strength to climb into the bathtub, and went into the closet and for a long time I couldn’t even get him to drink with the eyedropper. The vet was called immediately. She is great because she comes to the house. And of course most of the time, if it is a virus the cat seems to know what to do, which is to conserve his energy. And what worried me yesterday was that he actually felt a little bit warm to the touch, as if he had a fever. And he was just lying there with his eyes open, in a sort of delirium.
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DONE. This offer is now over. I wrote that it was going to be an experiment, and for me it didn’t do much. I had two high-resolution downloads. Maybe three. Considering that is pretty close to “giving it away” and that during that time I licensed two other images at a “real” price, I decided to say to heck with the idea (though I used another word). But it was interesting. I had several questions about what each thing I wrote meant, such as what is Adobe 98; why didn’t I sharpen the images; what was the best way to print them; etc. What I thought would be a straight-forward no work idea was actually bringing up the questions about printing as if it could be simply explained. I’m currently outlining an entire chapter about inkjet printing and it just isn’t the same as assembling a bookcase, though I wish it were.
Well. It was an idea anyway.
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Just got off the phone with Matt Weber who complained that I was changing my blog title too often, and that the blog had become too sterile. I agree with the guy. But some good has come from this futzing, namely the categories make some kind of sense. Stuff like this can go in Photo News which is basically junk that doesn’t have a bit of lasting value. Photos can go into photos (brilliant). What I know about the photo business has it’s own section. And then there’s what I’m now calling WRITING but which is subject to change would be essays etc. that are still worth reading a year from now.
And the main page (what you are reading now probably and will never read again probably) is just whatever I write and I promise myself not to make it too business like because frankly, it gets on my nerves too.
And now, I would also like to let you know that the man who never changes, has changed his web site address (Matt) to: http://weber-street-photography.com/ and that this is a great thing. I hope that all of you with Alexa toolbars (mentioned in previous sterile post) will pay him a visit at the new address.
So sit down with your cup of coffee, if that’s your drink of choice, and even though I’m writing this at 5 pm on a dreary day, I’ll make a triple espresso (which I do love) and in case I haven’t done it already make a second vow not to change the title, and to make this as readable as this particular post.
“To clarify our ToS regarding ownership, you the user retain all copyrights to your photos and videos, it’s your content. Our terms state by uploading content to Twitpic you allow us to distribute that content on twitpic.com and our affiliated partners. This is standard among most user-generated content sites (including Twitter). If you delete a photo or video from Twitpic, that content is no longer viewable.”
One of the most confusing (and this is of course done on purpose) subjects with images posted to various social media services and picture-hosting services is who owns the images. A typical response is that of course you the photographer own the images, but that the social media site can use them. No, you are not paid anything for their use.
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On April 21st, for the first time in my life, I sent out a newsletter (my very first one) through MadMimi (they’re very good btw).
And when I go to see if there are any orders, Fotomoto (which takes the orders and sends them to a printer) is down.
Down. Down. Down.
They were down at 3 a.m. and when I woke up the next morning they were still down. And they remained down throughout the day.
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Dear Reader,
I’m sure a lot of long time readers are puzzled by this reincarnated photo blog. Where are the photos? Where is the neverending rants about making a living? Back in the winter of ’99 all I wanted was to show that there was a real living human being creating and selling pictures.
But now every kid has a photo blog, a flickr account, or a place to post their everyday shots. I’ve changed the format so that I can write about what I’ve learned, in terms of digital photography, and running a photo business on the web. You can still find hundreds of daily photos and my photo tips (I don’t really want to call them lessons) about street photography, HDR, infrared, and the more usual sorts of shooting grouped in the top menu. And there’s still the off-the-top of my head stuff in the Muses section. The redesign isn’t finished, but I think you can begin to see the shape of things to come.
Dave
