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Friday Mystery Photo

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Another Friday – another mystery photo for you folks. I decided to make this one much easier than the prior few Friday photos. If you have been frequent visitor to my blog (see it pays off to come here often) then you will more likely know where it is.

As always, I’ll update this post over weekend with location and anyone who provided right answer.

Saturday Update: Many people tried to identified this one, great participation! Interestingly, many initial identifications were somewhere in England or Europe, if you look at my travel categories, I have not been to any of those parts of the world in the recent times and didn’t take any photos. But we have couple folks who rightfully identified it as Rockport MA, they are David and soonie2. Also, A Taste of Brazil suggested between Rockport and as well. Thanks guys! Good eye!

btw, one of my videos shows this area, see it below.

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and here is the video:

Before the Storm from Dmitrii on Vimeo.

Colorful Old San Juan

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Photo Pirating

This topic comes once in a while on different blogs and publications. Folks discuss copyrights and protection of their photos from unauthorized use, different techniques and their views on the subject. Personally I have never registered any of my photos with Copyright office, I don’t put any watermarks on it and I allow download of fairly high definition version of my photos. I don’t go as far as to allow download of the original photos, but you can download it at X3 size from my SmugMug gallery. For folks who use it for non-profit purposes I ask to provide link back to my site. I do not allow unlicensed use for any money making reuse.

I have never tried to see if any of my photos are floating out on the Internet, mainly because I have no time to seat and search for it. It never been high priority and I actually didn’t think that they have any reuse or large viewing audiences, other than you fine folks, who come here to my blog, my SmugMug gallery or see it on the flicker or 500px sites, or via occasional re-blogging on your WordPress sites.

So out of curiosity, last night I searched for couple photos via Google image site and was shocked and surprised to find dozens to hundreds of links to sites that have some usage of my photos. Blog posts, photo galleries, screen savers, screen backgrounds, mobile applications, to name a few reuses that I found. I did not see a single reference back to any of my sites or my full name. Most reuse had no names at all, some crediting other people (this one is super annoying), some had my first name only (how helpful is that?).

Will I do anything about it? Probably not. When I saw android mobile app (free) that uses one of my photos as background, my first impulse was to find contact information for folks who develops this app and write them a letter to either take my photo out from this app, provide credit information with link to my blog, or share $$$ that they make from advertising in the app from their 50K+ downloads , yeah, right! But reality is that I would probably spend a lot of time, a lot of energy and aggravation and get nothing in return from all those efforts. So I’m not going to do that.

Yes, it is annoying that folks out there on the World Wild Web use my products without giving any credit or sharing any profits. I have no time or desire to spend my time going after people like that. I do believe that there are still good number of folks out there who are honest and if they really like some of my products then they will find a way to provide credit back to the author or license it properly. But I don’t loose my sleep over all those photos floating out there. If I did, I would probably never sleep…

Do you sleep?

Today’s Photo

Old San Juan has couple streets that are used only by pedestrians, they a like a little shortcuts. This is one of them – Escalinata de las Monjas.

Colorful San Juan - click to see in high def!!!

Waterfalls

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Adds

I’ve been resisting against turning adds on my blog for almost one year. The main reason against it is because I feel that WordPress had done pretty bad design over it and provides literally zero control over it to the blog owners. All I can do is turn it on or off. I have no control on how adds are displayed on my site. I have waited for more than one year on them doing some improvements to the advertising platform and nothing have changed. So I have decided to turn on adds on the site and see what it will bring in one month and if over the twelve month timeframe it will cover all the hosting expenses or not. Maybe over time WordPress will eventually give more control on how these adds can be displayed.

Graveyard Trail Waterfalls

Third day in a row with time lapse videos here guys. This one if from the Graveyard Fields Waterfalls trail off the Blue Ridge Parkway, about 30 miles south from Asheville.

Graveyard Fields, click to see in high def!

and here is the video

Graveyards Field Water Falls from Dmitrii on Vimeo.

North Carolina Sunset

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I didn’t post my videos with corresponding photos in a while (except yesterday), so I’m trying to catch up on it with a few posts. I think this time lapse was done about fifteen month ago, beautiful sunset in our North Carolina mountains, a bit humid and sticky, with some mosquitos flying around, but that is normal pretty much anywhere these days.  This year we have been sluggish and made to the NC mountains only once, went to hike the Boone Fork hike couple weeks ago in hopes to eat some blackberries, but they were not ready yet. By now they are probably all eaten by other hikers and occasional black bears.

Smoky Mountains Sunset - Click to see in hi def!

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And here is the video

Sunset In the Smokies from Dmitrii on Vimeo.

DC Short

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For our National Monuments lovers here is another photo from my DC Short little time lapse. Have a nice Sunday everyone!

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and here is the video

DC SHORT from Dmitrii on Vimeo.