It’s been rather quiet at my end for a while. The cold weather’s been wreaking havoc on my back and joints so not a lot of shooting. I defied the cold today though and found a spot with loads of yellowhammers, I’ll be going back with a lens better suited for the purpose and the tripod when I get a chance.
The top image of August 2020 with the most likes, reactions and comments combined in all social medias I use.
The top image of May 2020 with the most likes, reactions and comments combined in all social medias I use.
Another print-ready image available for download… https://up-load.io/akzu3sny7qpi
Don’t miss the first one at https://up-load.io/u8xacp3580ah
In the page that loads find the button that says “Free Download”, in the next page, near the bottom, solve the captcha and click “Create your link” to get your personal download link.
I am actually paid for your free downloads, so the more downloads the better…
Birds are awesome. I spent half an hour watching this fellow sleeping and in the whole time not a feather moved.
All our lives have been rather limited this year due to the Chinese affliction, most of us have been sitting on the fence waiting for things to back to normal and we still do. Myself I have had to change my focus quite a bit when it comes to photography and doing a lot more nature and street photography just to mention a few more or less areas of photography for me.
What about you, how has things changed for you because of that pesky bug?
Getting all my ducks in a row…
Angry Bird IRL and he looks pissed!
This year I have been “forced” to extend my photography into areas that are way out of my safe zone, event photography, and among other areas I have ventured into nature photography. Birds are all around us so I have done my very best to capture them in their activities like fornicating in public on a roof top.
This is not cool!
On Instagram many profiles do this thing where you can get featured if you tag them when posting yourself. It’s a nice and easy way to get visibility, if they feature your image as is that is. Yesterday one such feature occured, but when doing like this profile did is actually copyright infringement. Although he/she tagged me the image had been cropped in such a way that my logo was removed and also the image went from sharp to fuzzy.
When done like this it reflects poorly on me as photographer, when my image is reposted it should be unaltered and not made a lesser image that won’t show the quality of my work. Below both versions have been included so you can see the difference. and, it is copyright infringement which makes it illegal when reposting!
Incidently, this particular image is available as print and novelty items at Printler, Spreadshirt, Redbubble and Pixels/Fine Art America. How likely are you to make a purchase if an image of poor quality is what you have seen before from my work?
Needless to say this particular Instagrammer won’t be getting any more support from me and I am actually considering filing charges. It’s sad really that people are so clueless when it comes to copyright.
This is not the first time I have been going down this road on the blogs, at the backup mirror there are a couple of posts to read. Infringement and Credits are two of them, one with what not to do and one on how to do it.
