If you’ve visited the state of Maine’s government site over the last couple of weeks, you may have noticed that a photo of apples I took a couple of years back was chosen as a winner for their Fall 2007 photo contest. I’m really honored (and surprised) about that one; there are lots of great Maine photos in that set!
I license most of my photography under a Creative Commons license. This license allows anyone to use the photos for any non-commercial purpose they wish, as long as they give credit and/or a link to my site… but they don’t necessarily have to let me know they’ve used the photo. If you see something of mine used somewhere, let me know about it!
The wonderful Consumerist blog used one of my 30holidays photos from last year to illustrate a story. They have a really great idea going; they manage a Flickr group to allow people to submit photos that the photo creators think would be appropriate for Consumerist. It reduces work on Consumerist’s end by giving them a pool of permission-granted photos to work with, and it lets people have the chance to see their work on the blog. Great idea.
One Big Maine, a site about Maine life and travel, used one of my Bar Harbor pics for an article about Acadia National Park. Move.com used a UMaine photo of mine for an article about great places for singles to live.
I guess this Creative Commons stuff really works.
If you’d like to use a photo of mine for a project, check out Pine Tree Photography or Flickr. Any of my photos marked with a Creative Commons license are available for use under the terms of that license.