Ryan McFarland

Dad’s work up at Wild Celery

Originally uploaded by zieak

I popped into Wild Celery the other day to see how Brenda had framed the work from Final Impressions.

Just hours after warning about the potential for a flood of incorrect attribution of Flickr photos, i received this message on Flickr.

I love your “waiting in seattle“shot!

Hi Ryan,

I am a writer for the popular personal finance & frugal living site Wise Bread. I am putting together an article on passport photos and would love to use your shot as the header. I will of course provide proper attribution, credit, and a link.

If there is any problem please let me know and I’ll remove the shot. I expect it to be published within a week.

Thank you in advance!
Nora Dunn

I actually had never been to Wise Bread until just yesterday when Consumerist linked to one of their articles.

I pointed out before that Consumerist has featured photos of mine in the past.  As a pagerank 7 website those incoming links are great for my site.  I specify in my Flickr photo descriptions that credit has to be given to zieak.com and Ryan McFarland.  Unfortunately, a new plugin for Wordpress has been released that will allow any blogger to easily insert Flickr photos of any user that has an open Creative Commons license right into their blog posts.  The PhotoDropper plugin automatically adds credit to the photographer by grabbing the user name and linking to the Flickr profile.  No consideration for any special instructions will be made by anyone using this plugin.  I think the plugin serves a wonderful purpose.  I just really would like credit passed to my site instead of Flickr.

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