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Flickr Pix in the Wild

Been a while since I’ve done one of these posts, but the last week has brought several requests for photo usage and that reminded me to share some places where my Flickr photos have been used. I’ll start with a pic of our dog, Sparky, which is currently appearing on the home page of the Woof Report:

woof

That won’t stay on the home page for long, but it’s also being used on this newsletter page. Go Sparky!

Here are others I’ve found:

  • Beyond Phototips used my shot of footprints in the snow. It’s way down near the end of the article. On a related note, this same photo of mine will apparently be used in an Australian documentary that’s now in production. That was one of the email requests that came in this week.
  • My uber-popular baseball photo appeared on ivorytowerz late last month.
  • It also appeared on Bargain Briana.
  • A photo I took of the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile was used on Wide Open Wallet way back in March.
  • And my “The End” photo appeared on Through the Illusion.

Visiting the McGees? Try April

Our friends and family are welcome to visit us at any time of year, but if you’re smart and thinking ahead, you’ll come visit in April. I think it’s gotta be the best time to come see us. Here’s why:

If you come visit us in April, you’ll be able to see…

our tulips in bloom

Tulips Galore!

our cherry trees starting to blossom

Cherry Blossom #2

the magnolia tree/bush in full bloom

Magnolia in full bloom

the lilacs in all their purple glory

April 23, 2006: The Color Purple

and our crazy dog enjoying the warm weather

Attack!

So, yeah, this has gotta be the best month to come to West Richland and visit. Cari has always said that spring is her favorite time of year. That’s partly because her birthday is in spring, but I think the above also has a lot to do with it.

Latest Photo Finds

Lots of cool sightings of my Flickr photos out on the web lately, starting with my two kids appearing in the February newsletter from S. R. Clarke. (Hi Todd!)

my two kids

And here are a bunch of other photo finds in recent weeks:

  • That photo of my son and his friend selling lemonade was used on Small Biz Trends (one of my favorite blogs!).
  • Deal Seeking Mom used a tomato close-up photo a couple weeks ago.
  • Bag & Baggage recently used my rural mailbox photo.
  • Consumerist used another photo: an old Burger King french fries pic that I think they’ve used before, too.
  • A travel site called HoteloTravel used my Portland nightscape photo, which continues to be a popular choice for PDX-related sites to use.

Long Time, No Flickr Photos In Use

Actually, that headline isn’t true. I’ve just been too busy to get around to posting. But it’s always cool to see my Flickr pix being used online, and here’s where I’ve found them:

photo on Consumerist

That’s a shot of Sean and his buddy, Alex, on The Consumerist last week. He was pretty happy to see himself online like this — but it wasn’t the first time. Another site used that same photo a few months back!

Here’s more:

  • CNBC used my favorite Portland skyline photo in a slideshow about popular relocation cities.
  • Ecoble used that same photo last month, and back in November they used a Yoke’s temperature sign photo in a story about global warming.
  • UTNE Reader used a photo of me and my daughter in an article about the ACLU. (yuck)
  • Finally, Book Club Classics used one of my autumn leaves photos back in mid-November. That’s how long it’s been since I did one of these posts.

Meanwhile, aside from the recent floods, I haven’t had time to put many photos on Flickr lately. Don’t know when that’ll change…..

Flickr Treats

There’s a bad Halloween-related pun in that headline. But since this latest roundup of Flickr photo finds is almost all Halloween-related, who could resist turning “trick or treat” into “Flickr Treats”? Not me.

Anyhoo … looks like several blogs found and liked my Halloween candy photo from two years ago. Here it is on Slashfood, an AOL blog:

Halloween photo

That same photo (a personal fave of mine) was used in two other Halloween-related blog posts:

And the last photo find is from an article called Save $1000 in 30 days, on YBP Guide, which used my semi-recent photo of the Dave Ramsey Financial Peace Jr. set we’re using to teach the kids about money management.

Another Round of Flickr Photos Found

Plenty of my Flickr photos have been used on blogs and web sites, but I can say with certainty that this is the first time my son has appeared in one of those photos:

photo

That photo appeared a few days ago on the HTNet blog. I’m guessing Sean will be happy to see himself on the web like this. :)

Here are some other places I’ve recently found my photos in use:

Another Set of Flickr Photos Found

Some photos you remember exactly when and where and what it was like when you pushed the button on your camera. A blog called Wide Open Wallet recently found and used one of those photos:

screenshot

That was taken on a flight from home to Atlanta, and it was snowing in Denver and the fact that there were three inches of snow on the ground didn’t slow anyone down. I remember looking out the airplane window as we landed and taxied and I’m sure I was shaking my head that we’d just landed on a snowy runway.

Here are three other places my photos have been used lately:

  • My rural mailbox photo is on the Simple Makes contact page.
  • My baseball-in-the-grass photo remains a popular choice — it was used on the Deuce of Davenport blog. That’s three months in a row that someone found and used that one.
  • And finally, a new one — first time I know of this Snow Patrol CD photo being used, as it was recently on Create Digital Music.

Four Flickr Photos Found in the Wild

Wired screenshotIs this the first time one of my U2 pictures has been picked up somewhere? I think so. I have “U2″ as a Google (and Yahoo) news alert, and it was very strange to click through to this Wired story and see my own flippin’ photo used as the illustration!

Meanwhile, Wired has so much real estate from its header down to the actual content, that I have to shrink the whole image down to this mini version. It looks much better in actual size. :)

And here are some other folks happily using my Flickr pix:

Latest Flickr Photos Found in the Wild

I usually don’t think of London and baseball going together, so this seems a bit out of the ordinary: The Popular blog Londonist used a baseball photo of mine on a recent post about “International Baseball”:

Londonist screenshot

Looks nice, doesn’t it? I think so. And here are a couple other places people have been using my photos:

Flickr Pix in the Wild

Been a while, but recently found a few of my Flickr pix in use on the Internetz. One of my best night shots is on a blog called the Silicon Florist:

Silicon Florist screenshot

And then a couple others:

  • My totally awesome vanilla-ice-cream-with-caramel-and-pink-and-purple-sprinkles photo was used on a Consumerist.com “Top Posts” post. So there. Take that all you who didn’t think that bowl of ice cream looked amazing. Touché! Matt FTW!
  • And lastly, one of my many American flag photos found a nice home on The Reasons I Think America Is A Great Country, a post from a blog called My Super-Charged Life.

All very cool, n’est-ce pas?

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