Hotlinking the Vegetable

This forum is in Cyrillic, which I can't read, and neither can babelfish. My dragonfly shares a post by stardoc with a few other dragonflies, but they pale in comparison with the wonderful photoshopped animals above and below it. Check it out, they're way cool.

I took this picture in my back yard. I got greedy and touched the tree and off it flew. I do that too much. Owell. The weather is warming and the insects are starting to show - hopefully I'll see one of these again soon.

Here is the latest Orange Dragonfly hotlink list. There are only two currently, and the busiest one is kim's myspace page, which is set private.

Thank you kim and stardoc!

This Drop of Water is going places! Unfortunately, one new place constututes a Infringing Copyright Claim.


Dzeparoski Nikola made a smaller jpg from my gif. Here it is:



I have sent email to the contact address on this page:

To : contact@ii.edu.mk
Cc : therobotvegetable@middle-fork.org
Attchmnt:
Subject : Dzeparoski Nikola and my picture of a drop of water
----- Message Text -----
Hello,
It has come to my attention that Dzeparoski Nikola has taken my image

http://www.middle-fork.org/archives/2006/03/a_drop_of_water.html

and claims copyright on it:

http://stella.ii.edu.mk/i2006/10979/greska/black_beauty.htm

I don't mind if there is a unattributed hotlink that is a good thing. Unfortunately, Dzeparoski Nikola has re-sourced the image and claims copyright. This is unhappy and not necessary - this person is welcome to use my image, sourced from my server, without attribution.

Here are three articles I have written extolling the use of my image from my server:

http://hotveg.blogspot.com/search?q=drop+water

I am currently writing a new article to document this infringement and any resolution. I am please that Dzeparoski Nikola likes my image and wants to share it with others. All I ask is that the copyright notice is removed.
Please let me know what information you need to assist me in this sad task.


Thank you,
veg

There are three previous posts about hotlinks to this image. Here is the current list of hotlinks

This is unpleasant - I want to share and someone steals. I don't understand the thinking behind such actions.

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This is cool: Middle-Fork has been stumbledupon. I don't understand this yet.

Traffic for the December 2006 Middle-Fork archive took a big jump today, from people actually coming in from the index and fetching all the images. (More usual is an archive being fetched as a result of being the source of an image search hit.)

Looking around a bit, I found that the archive was mentioned by Kelly in Portland, OR in her blog Live Well. Laugh Often. Love Much in the 11 Apr post entitled beautiful photos, simple moments

Thanks Kelly!

The stumbling started then: this archive was discovered by FireSideChatter in Vegetarian.

FireSideChatter has been linking to this picture:



which is in the December 2006 archive.

Thanks FireSideChatter!

Both of these events happened on 11 April, five days ago. What happened today that sent this archive into the stratosphere?

the Residents are great, and have been creating cool stuff for decades (Residents Wikipedia page.) Now they have moved online, into the "Storyteller Era" - 2006-present.

The Residents use a cool eyeball head tux wearing visible riff as a theme, and in a comment DisAppointment Daughter has left my collage Seeing Eye to Eye.

DisAppointement Daughter posted this hotlink at 2304 10 Apr and since then there have been 245 hits. Hits will probably keep up the rest of today and then taper off when the comment leaves the front page.

Thanks, DisAppointment Daughter!

This is an odd situation. I found an access of one of my pictures of a syrfid fly with this referrer: http://www.ghettodriveby.com/beelike/.

ghettodriveby is an image search engine that returns a single image for a keyword. This is the only one of my pictures which has been accessed this way.

I plugged in some keywords I thought might be unique to my work, and eventually plugged in Staley Creek and bingo! this picture showed up. I was pleased.

Then I looked at the image url:

http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l88/annatzrenja/dStaleyCreek2robotvegetable.gif

(UPDATE MOMENTS LATER: While I was composing this post, ghettodriveby changed and is now sourcing the image from its original location. The photobucket image url still resolves.)


This is my image, renamed by adding most of my nom de ars to the filename, and served from photobucket. I don't know if I like this or not.

I have created an account, and asked support how to see the context of this image, for all I know, the person is saying what a great photographer I am and listing my blog. They tell me there is no way to get in touch with another account holder. I must complain to discover, and so I have. Yuck.

Here's the entire Staley Creek archive - I had great fortune there last summer.

and, um, Thanks! annatzrenja@photobucket, at least for giving me another chance to show this picture off. I hope you aren't stealing my picture.

UPDATE 24 April 2007: Photobucket has removed the image.

Since google scarfed up blogger google image searches are finding images on Far Cartouche, and often an image original to Middle-Fork is sourced from this blog after I have posted about it as a hotlink.

I guess I like that, I'm certainly seeing an increase in visits at all three blogs. Even at Days Between Stations, which can't figure out what the heck its mission is, resulting in much inactivity.

$girl has placed Flowers for Francis Bacon on her myspace page under Who I'd Like To Meet. Francis Bacon rocks, he was a truly great painter. (Ack! the link to his collected works is stale!) I wonder is $girl just likes my picture, or if she really wants to meet Francis.

in any event, Thanks $girl!

This picture currently leads in number of active hotlinks. This is the third time I've posted about it (all three together), that is also a record, but it's really exploded.

I count 10 hotlinks for sure in the list, as well as some email, RSS pages, and some of those skip-the-thumbnail-page servers that are popping up.

From Buddhists to Bloody Disgusting Participants! We all like water, very cool.

Thanks! Y'all!

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This picture has started picking up hotlinks lately. It has had one going pretty much since the original post back in August 2005.

Now the top score is held by a soccer forum in a cheer for The Purple Storm.

In second place is Schnegggel1990s HP homepage. The picture seems out of place to me, not hardly tough enough for the company.

Following that up, the current hotlink list for this picture reveals a couple false starts, and the ancient acapella hotlink.

Thanks! Everybody!

These two spiders are caught in the act by Huckebein in a forum post at Stirling University. This is the third image of four - the rest can be seen at the originla Middle-Fork post. These garden spiders were living in the fuchsia bush in the backyard.

Thanks, Huckebein!