Illustrating

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":-

From November 2022, a picture I took on The Isle of Man back in 2016 -  "Onchan: Man dies in Mountain Road crash":- 

From February 2022 a picture I took in the centre of Boston Lincolnshire during the Year of The Plague (2020) -  "Boston to get £3.9m facelift to attract shoppers and tourists":-

And from December of last year a picture I snapped when walking past a South Yorkshire prison in 2020 -  "HMP Lindholme inmates placed orders for drugs, court hears":-

My picture below of The Royal Dart Yacht Club in Devon was used to illustrate a story in an online magazine called "Yachts and Yachting":-

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Top photo of Grindslow Knoll on The Kinder Plateau used by an online outdoor magazine called "Grough" to illustrate this story: "Lost Kinder Scout walkers rescued by Buxton team members on training exercise".

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Forty

 Forty observations

5.  I can be upset, but my anger mustn’t fester. I don’t have the luxury of anger. It only triggers my anxiety and depression. Those two things may not leave anytime soon. I need to learn to cope. I’ve not coped with my past or present. I’ve been reminded of it this week. 

6.  When I can’t internalize God’s words, I turn on gospel music. The African-American church loved me in a way I can’t explain. Much like churches in foreign nations have brought me peace. I immerse myself in a culture that loves me without expectation. 

7. The world may be cruel, but I must not repay with cruelty. Two wrongs don’t make a right. I’m learning this very deliberately. If I repaid all the misdeeds of others with meanness, it wouldn’t cease. My lineage is an eye for an eye, but my Savior demands the opposite. 

8.  As long as I’m able to live I’ve been given the directive to love as He has loved me. That is a goal to actively seek. I am hopeful to be up to the task, and willing of the call. Love yourself and one another

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