The Consumerist has been all over the Circuit City closing/liquidation story lately, and last week’s series of articles included my photos three times in one week. Sweet!
That’s a screenshot from this post last Thursday. Less than an hour earlier, they used one of my photos on this post. And it all began last Tuesday with this post.
How crazy is that?!? And cool, too. But mostly crazy.
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:
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:
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…..
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:
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.
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:
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:
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:
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:
Is 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:
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”:
Looks nice, doesn’t it? I think so. And here are a couple other places people have been using my photos:
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:
And then a couple others:
All very cool, n’est-ce pas?
It’s been a while since I’ve found anyone using my photos in blog posts and elsewhere, but this more than makes up for it. I just sold usage of this photo:
This one has been licensed (for a small sum of money) to a web development company in Canada who wants it for web-use only. By no means am I getting rich off these photo license agreements, but it’s essentially free money for photos that I took and uploaded ages ago. Can’t beat that.
One of the great things about Web 2.0 is that it’s now kinda cool to sit down and share vacation photos with friends — not like back in the old days when you’d sit in the living room and go through slide-by-slide while Grandma or somebody tries to explain every little detail in the photo. Save me from that torture!
Now, you can cruise through pix and see what you want, leave comments on the photos you want to, mark some as favorites, etc. Or you could ignore them altogether and make me sad. 
I think this might be my favorite shot from the Philly/NYC trip earlier this month:
That’s a somewhat artsy-fartsy shot of Independence Hall. Turned out well, and a little messing with the exposure makes it more interesting (to me). If you’re curious to see more, the full set of 39 photos is on Flickr now.
You can see my son at Yankee Stadium, and some good action shots from the game we saw. Or maybe the room where the Declaration of Independence was debated in Philly, plus the very moving Tomb of the Unknown Revolutionary War Soldier with its eternal flame. We also took the kids to see my grade school and the all-boys high school I attended — kinda like the school in Dead Poet’s Society, but ours wasn’t a boarding school.
