Saturday - March 04, 2006

Discontinued Feature

I will no longer be posting a “Photo Du Jour” feature on weekdays. For over a year now, I have gone out to several sites including The Hubble Site, Earth Observatory and Photo.net to bring you an artistic offering in the afternoon for your viewing pleasure. This was done to promote an interest in the arts, particularly photography, in which I am personally interested.

It has been brought to my attention that a few members at Photo.net have taken umbrage at my posting of their photos here. I myself am a member at Photo.net and was quite surprised that amateur photographers would be so possessive of their work, in spite of the fact that I always provided a link back to the photographer’s pages so you could look at all their work and encourage them to do more. Several of you even joined Photo.net along with me and we have all learned a lot about photography there.

Unfortunately for all of us, as I mentioned above, some members there do not wish their work to be assocaited with this blog, fearing that their work is being used to lure innocents to a web site where they can be indoctrinated with some weird Republican mind-control agenda. Others at this site seem to think that since I run a few ads to offset operating expenses that this must be a commercial web site and that I must be making money off of them and “their art”.

Those of you who visit here regularly know all of that is utter horse-shit. If you wish to see the reason why I am so disappointed in the members at Photo.net and wish to have nothing further to do with them just read this forum thread over there and make up your own mind. I will turn off the Republican mind-control machine here and go count the millions of dollars I am making from this blog while you read. (that’s satire, for those who don’t know me)

I may continue the feature with my own photos, which I am more than willing to share in the public domain. If any of you wish to contribute photos, then let me know. However, I will make one stipulation: all photos submitted must be in the public domain and not copyrighted works.

That is all. Carry on.

Update I: Photo.net has refunded my subscription and kicked me out. Sic transit gloria munde.

Update II: I have received dozens of e-mails of support and from several photo sites whose entire galleries are public domain. It looks like I will be able to continue the “Photo Du Jour” feature thanks to a lot of good people.

Posted by The Skipper     on 03/04/2006 at 02:52 PM   
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