Some of you may recall that for quite a few years I have been contributing photographs to a British photo-mapping site called Geograph. In total, I have contributed over seventeen thousand five hundred pictures. The site itself has received 7.5 million images from 13,761 contributors. I am just a small fish in a large pond.
Now when you submit your photos to Geograph, you do so on the understanding that your images will be available for others to use as long as copyright is always acknowledged. Many organisations such as news services or publishers have come to view Geograph as an incredible free resource.
Let's say you need a picture of a particular village to illustrate a news report about a fire or a car accident. All you need to do is go to Geograph and press "Search". No need to send a photographer. Or maybe you are writing a book about English cathedrals and you need photo-illustrations. There's no need to drive up and down our motorways because you can find the pictures on Geograph. Free to use.
Several of my pictures have been used by others including the BBC News website. Though no payment is received, it gives me a bit of a buzz to find my images being used elsewhere. Here's just a small sample of my BBC pictures....
From January of this year, a picture I took of the island of Little Ross in South West Scotland - "Holiday homes plan for lighthouse murder island near Kirkcudbright":-
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