The best picture in the overall category of this year’s Nature Photographer of the Year competition, organised by the Society of German Nature Photographers (GDT), was deservedly won by 18-year-old Hermann Hirsch.
His photo of a fox looking both predatory and vulnerable is marvellous and I wonder if I could ever take a shot as good as this.
A good workman never blames his tools, I suppose, but when I take a look at the mega-camera Hirsch uses, I know what the answer is NO!
Zen water feature from the Japanese Garden at Portland, Oregon.
Three “Layers” Of Creative Commons Licenses (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
A question posed as part of the discussion of copyright options in the Open University’s Open Education (MOOC) is what Creative Commons license students would choose for their blog?
This blog is not written for commercial purposes and as far as I’m concerned, readers are free to distribute, remix, tweak, and build upon any of my posts, even commercially, as long as they credit me, Martin Raybould, as the creator.
I am clearly not alone in this view. In the article Sites of Resistance: Weblogs and Creative Commons Licenses, Clancy Ratliff of the University of Minnesota writes: “The vast majority of bloggers do not get paid for keeping their weblogs at all; they do it in order to freely give and publish their ideas and receive other ideas in return. The bloggers I interviewed, when asked why they got Creative Commons licenses, all expressed desires to share ideas and relinquish some control over their content”. Continue reading
I’ve only just seen this neat video and it occurs to me that this I’m doing something similar with this blog, Posting when I’ve seen, read or done something inspiring is easy but blogging on the boring, empty days can be tough. Kuriyama rightly says it’s those ‘non- days'(like today for example!) that you really need to remember to give the impetus to do something interesting.
Link:
Ted Talk explaining the ‘One Second Every Day’ project
Credit: Chally and Nirmukta
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