August 06, 2008
Cuil, horn tootin’ and photography.
Tags: photo, sacramentoI’m not a fan of Cuil, but when I searched for me I discovered that the Sacramento website for the Extended Stay Hotels Chain is using a photo I took in December 2003 from the top of the bridge between the William Pond Recreation area and the (formerly) Goethe Park, whose new name escapes me. They didn’t tell me they were going to use it, but I’ll be damned if they didn’t credit me and source SXC when you mouse over the photo. It looks like they enriched the color a bit and they cropped it to make it look more panoramic.
The photo was also used at the 2005 State Fair.
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Nicely done, sir. I like the photo too.
August 07, 2008 @ 10:23 am
One of my commenters on SXC said the photo would look good in black and white. I haven’t tried it yet but intend to. If I go that route though, I’ll have to scrub out the dead salmon.
August 07, 2008 @ 11:07 am
I’m pretty much baffled by cuil.com – what were they thinking? I’ve only gotten it to work once. One time w/out it timing out. And even then, the results weren’t great and I’m not a fan of the format. There’s nothing I’ve seen that makes me want to use it except for the fact that I’ve only gotten it to work once and I have this sick desire to see it work again… (I just tried it again & no luck)
August 08, 2008 @ 4:38 pm
How refreshing to see that people properly credit other’s work!
It seems like every blogger’s foray into Cuil was to see if their own blog shows up. Mine didn’t. After a couple of days, though, some links that reference my site appeared, but no direct links to my site did. But if you Google the name of my blog, I’m the #1 result.
Cuil might be superior from SOMEONE’s perspective, but not mine.
August 08, 2008 @ 5:28 pm
Absolutely GORGEOUS image! I’d love to have that as my Windows wallpaper :hint hint:
August 09, 2008 @ 7:33 pm
There’s no usage restrictions, so feel free to download it. Unfortunately, though, it was taken with a film camera and the file available on Stock.xchng (click on the picture in the post) is 1500×1000 and its the largest file I have. I used it as my background for a while, but modern monitors have such high resolutions it wasn’t big enough.
August 10, 2008 @ 10:33 am