leavesnbloom studio

The Abandoned Crutch

2012-02-28T01:17:00.001-08:00

Abandoned, left behind, lost property or maybe even a miraculous healing ...............

(the final submission to my class for critique over at the classroom - Lesson CP12)

An early submission.........as someone needs to bring it back to A&E!

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ColorMe Weekly #9 Unlimited Possibilites

2012-02-26T23:14:00.001-08:00

Exploring the unlimited possibities with colour ......................

These are handpainted pieces of slate and to give the vintage look to the photograph I used the summer vintage outdoor tint action from Nelly Nero. The colours inspired me so much that I made some ladies vintage iphone/ipod cases this week with these colours from this palette for my shop.

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Thanks again everyone for participating each week in the meme - your work is so creative and I realise that some of you take quite a bit of time to make your palette so creative. I'm really enjoying exploring colour and I hope you are too. Just incase you missed my last post I'm asking that that you don't pin my work any longer on Pinterest - though in the days when I saw Pinterest in a different light I really appreciated your pins. Now if that statement interests you and makes you want to know why then please read my newly updated post - Why I've opted out of Pinterest on my Blogs.

I've provided a linky at the bottom of this post so that anyone can join in with me again this week. There are no weekly themes just your imagination! Even if you don't have photoshop you can still participate and if you want to know a little more about this pantone inspired color meme click here.

Finally there are just a few rules for the Color Me Weekly link up if you're a newbie to the world of memes.

You must submit the link of your blog post that contains the palette and not the url of your homepage.
The photo must be one you took yourself though it doesn't have to be recent.
Your blog post must contain a palette of some sort. (creativity encouraged)
The photo must be appropriate for workplace or grandchildren viewing.
Include a link back to my blog either with the button or with just the linked text.
Leave a little comment love to those who also are participants.
The linky will be open Monday to Friday.

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Why I've opted out of Pinterest on my blogs

2012-02-24T12:40:00.011-08:00

Well my love affair sadly is now on hold with Pinterest and I've have mixed feelings about the website these past few days despite being someone who loves to share. Its membership has rocketed, the linking etiquette has gone out the window and I think that copyright issues are about to become a huge issue for the site. I now realise that there is hardly anything that I can legally pin unless the owner of the image gives me permission first of all though if you've got a 'pin it' button on your blog post I presume that it can be pinned.

shared from LINKwithLove Campaign

I've always had a few concerns about Pinterest and copyright..........but I loved to pin and repin and I thought everything was ok with pinning other peoples images as long as I gave a link to their website. Pinterest even gave us a button to place on our web browser to make it sooooooooo easy! but so many these days are not even linking to the original source hence the reason for the LINKwithLove campaign.

But in researching this I ended up finding even more....................

All your pins and your links are the property of Pinterest once they are on their servers and they can do whatever they like with the photographs and change the links (this really concerns affiliate Zazzle.com users as the commission goes to Pinterest now rather than to them). Their TOS state that you must have permission from the owner of the photograph before you can pin it........but who does?.....its contrary to what Pinterest encourages you to do............and they encourage you to pin big images aswell!

Source: Pinterest puts ALL of the responsibility and, more importantly, liability for that copyright violation on their users. If a copyright holder decides to get litigious with Pinterest, Pinterest would likely turn around and sue the user for any damages or costs associated with that lawsuit.

Now a lawsuit hopefully will never happen over pinning a photo you've not asked permission to pin first of all but there's a lawyer in this family of mine so just be aware that if you pin it, you’re legally responsible for it and if you repin an image then it's the original pinner that's responsible.

One photographer whose HDR work I admire is Trey Ratcliff and he loves Pinterest and has written a good post on the pros of a photographer using Pinterest.

But it gets worse and this is the part of Pinterest's TOS that concerns me the most. You think to yourself well I can't pin an image without permission so I'll post one of my own - guess what you've just done?....................

Source: you just granted Pinterest a "worldwide, irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, transferable, royalty-free license, with the right to sublicense, to use, copy, adapt, modify, distribute, license, sell, transfer, publicly display, publicly perform, transmit, stream, broadcast, access, view, and otherwise exploit such Member Content only on, through or by means of the site.....

All this means that if you don't post your own work and Pinterest sells it in the future and it ends up on mugs or teashirts etc then it is YOU that can sued for copyright violation.

Now if Pinterest only pinned a thumbnail that might be ok but remember they want you to pin big images!

Blog traffic from Pinterest is great but it looks as if it comes at a price!

Maybe it's different for you........ maybe you don't sell your images and the image isn't the chief product of the blog post as it leads the viewer to the rest of your content but for many phototogs I think this is quite serious. I'm a semi-professional photographer and I earn some money from my images and I want to have as much control as possible as to how my photos are used - I don't want Pinterest selling one of mine. If they have been repinned all over the place then I can't even get the image off Pinterest unlike on Google/Yahoo where I would be able to have it removed.

Can you imagine how hard it would be to get permission from the owner of another photo you wanted to pin if they knew that pinning their photo would give away all their rights to the image! How many permissions do you think you would receive?

What's worse is even if I delete the boards that my images are listed on under Pinterests TOS they still hold rights to those images if they have been repinned!

Sigh................ maybe I've overreacted, and maybe it's because I value photo artists rights over copyright but I deleted a load of boards yesterday in case you're one of my followers and the rest I'm going to check so that all my links are back to the original source. The Internet is buzzing just now with this Pinterest copyright issue so hopefully there will be some clarification on the Pinterest TOS. I won't be putting a pin button on my posts and have disabled pinning on both blogs with Pinterests web button. I want as much control as possible over what I share on Pinterest from now on...........though I know that once it is online it is easy pickings............but that's why I'm a member of DMCA!

Edit to add: Redbubble and Flickr have taken action against pinning now aswell.

I really want to know your feelings on this subject either for or against but please read the more concise links first of all as they will help you see the bigger picture!

Let's get this conversation going................

Further reading is encouraged at these links below aswell as those highlighted in the body of the post:

Pinterest is Changing the Way I Blog

New Code lets websites opt of out Pinterest

Is Pinterest a Haven for Copyright Violation?
How You Could Get Sued for Using Pinterest
Flickr Disables Pinterest Pins on Copyright Photos
From Redbubble

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