War Pigs
Category: Photography
Crankypants, Ahoy!
As I was looking at my referrer stats today, I noticed some suspicious traffic from a pet website. I visited the site and looked around and found that they were using one of my photos. Most of my images are Creative Commons licensed for non-commercial use, but this was a commercial website. I contacted them and explained that as their website was clearly commercial (they had a shopping cart and were selling products, for crying out loud; it was not at all ambiguous), their use of my image was in violation of my license.
I got a message back from them saying that, while they’d removed my image, they had not violated my license, as they weren’t selling products with my image on them. Um, yeah, that would be a flagrant violation of my license, but that’s not the only way to define commercial use. Placing my image anywhere on their commercial website is, you know, commercial use, as it’s meant to drive traffic and ultimately garner sales.
The worst part of it, though, was that they’d chosen a terrible photo. If you’re going to steal something, at least make sure you steal something nice.
Peeps on Safari
One of my coworkers gave me a package of stale Peeps Snowmen. Peeps aren’t fit for human consumption, so I took them out in the garden for a photo shoot.
Grapefruit
There is nothing tastier than grapefruit with a little bit of salt. Nothing.
Watermelon Seeds or Engorged Ticks?
You decide!
Making Lemonade
Some assberet stole some of the flower pots off my patio late last night. That would have been annoying enough, but he also dumped the dirt out of them and made an unholy mess. There are piles of dirt everywhere. One of the plants had become pot-bound though, and the dirt came out in one large chunk, complete with a tracery of roots around the outer edges. It’s kind of pretty.
The thief pretty much has to be someone from this apartment complex, because my patio can’t be seen from the street or sidewalk. The only people who would have known there were flower pots there would have been people who live here, because the only foot traffic along the back of the buildings is from residents walking their dogs. Nice to know that one of my neighbors is not only a thief but a slob, too. The least he could have done was dump the dirt under the tree or in the thicket, instead of throwing it all over my patio.
Bad Henry
I heard a noise from the kitchen, and when I went to see what it was, I found the kitchen empty and the cupboard door hanging open. And then Henry poked her head out from around a box of saltines.
If It’s Soft, It Must Be a Pillow
I laid my hoodie over the back of the couch, and somehow, Harriet managed to pull half of it down to use as a pillow.
Frenemies
I never thought I’d live to see the day!
Grandma and Grandpa
This photo was a bit of a salvage effort. The negative is pitch black, and even when I held it up to a bright light, I couldn’t tell if there was actually an image on it. I scanned it anyway, but the scan was black, too. I was able to bring up the image in Photoshop, but I had to make such extreme adjustments that the image quality suffered. Sometimes a bad photo is better than no photo at all, though, and I think this is one of those times. I love the way grandma is leaning over and rubbing grandpa’s head.
This was taken on their honeymoon, I believe.
red paper boat 