Archive for May, 2008

Yesterday’s image for Channel 4 News.

New image for Channel 4 News - Here.

Hmmm… Viewing this on someone else’s computer, the colour of the door seems all over the place. I may fix it later. Quick fix done…

or Cherie Booth’s “Speaking For My Mortgage” or “Speaking For Ten Grand A Pop” or

and a link to an old one, click for full size :

I’m sure most of this site’s visitors know how I feel about other sites running my images, but just to reiterate :
I don’t have a problem at all with images that have not been commissioned running on non-commercial sites and blogs.
In fact, I usually am OK with the images being run from my server.
All I ask is a proper credit “Beau Bo D’Or” and a link back to my blog (the blog, not the root of the site and not the specific blog post).
There are some sites who may mistakenly abbreviate links or accidentally cock-up the link - not a problem - these things happen.

So, what to do?
Well, I reckon if things don’t change soon, I’ll have to prevent hotlinking from my servers in the near future.
It won’t stop some of the dickheads mentioned above but it should reduce my frustration a tad.
This means that it’s best that the nice folk who are running images from my server (and who have been courteous and provided credits & links) copy those images to flickr or their own space and relink to ensure they still appear if I decide to switch the lights off.
It will involve a fair bit of work for me as I use a separate domain for my pics so I will have to copy over several hundred images.
For the technically minded, I’ve tried an htaccess file but there always seem to be unintended consequences.

Take from this what you want - people did with a previous drug based image of mine.
My view is that the industry and media feed off each other and they both suck a performer dry while making sure they have a plentiful supply of whatever they need.

Now on a totally unrelated note.