About a year ago,I was contacted to see if a picture I took at Niagara Falls could be used on a website called SCHMAP. As the photo was published under a Creative Commons license and they were going to attribute it,I said sure.
Got an email this week that it was now being used on their iPhone version (it’s the one on the top left). It’s actually a pretty crappy picture but,at least it’s being used somewhere.
A few of my shots have made their way on to other websites and,for the most part,people have been diligent about following the terms of the licensing. What surprises me is that they’re usually pictures that I consider throwaway. For instance,Upgrade:Travel Better used a shot of a ZOOM 767 that I took through a fence at Pearson International Airport. The fence is clearly visible and I only took the shot to show my friend Jim who flies for them. Imagine my surprise when it started getting hits.
Just goes to show that one person’s garbage is another’s gold.
