Rising Tide

Seems that the click through is not working no this page. The original photo can be found at http://www.flickr.com/photos/cc_chapman/27561064/ if interested.

yeah, I have noticed that the 'click through' means click through to the comment section here at boston.com and that is fine I guess, but I was expecting it to lead to the flickr photostream too. Would be a good way to explore more of our fellow photographers work. But I guess they don't want to send traffic away from boston.com.

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Ed. Note: Hi, Pat ... I have no problem sending people to other sites. In fact, I'm preparing a blogroll of New England photo blogs as well as lists of good photo storage and sharing sites and general interest photography sites.

The reason that I haven't yet included links back to each photo on Flickr is twofold: 1) I didn't want to bias the voting by easily identifying each photographer and displaying her/his full portfolio. I'd like people to judge each photo on its merits and not be swayed by anything else. and 2) This is a one-person operation right now, and I'm already getting sore wrists from posting all of these contest entries, let alone adding a lot of links!!!

Nonetheless, this is the second such comment I've received, so let me see what I can do.

Thanks for the suggestion.

Thanks for the insight. I didn't know that judging was going to be user-based. I guess that does make sense then.

Thanks for the update on why there is no linking. Makes sense and I like the way of thinking.

BUT, one problem is that it is against Flickr's terms of service to use a photo from their site without linking to it on Flickr. Unless Boston.com got some sort of exemption you might want to be careful because I love the idea of RAW and what you are doing with it and I'd hate to see Flickr pull the plug on it.

Keep up the great work. I LOVE how you are using something as simple as tagging in Flickr for photos to be entered into the contest. Well done.

Ed. Note: Thanks for the heads up, CC ... I'll check to make sure we're kosher with flickr.

If I am not mistaken, you can't link to a flickr photo HOSTED there without linking back. I believe boston.com is serving the photos off their own servers, not using flickr's bandwidth. So I think everything is a-ok.

Pat, CC is correct. This is from Flickr's Community Guidelines:

Do link back to Flickr when you post your Flickr content elsewhere. The Flickr service makes it possible to post content hosted on Flickr to outside web sites. However, pages on other web sites that display content hosted on flickr.com must provide a link from each photo or video back to its page on Flickr.

but you see where it says "hosted on flickr"? that is the kicker (the flickr kickr, if you will). flickr isn't saying that once you post a photo to flickr you always have to link to it if you post that same photo elsewhere. Only if you post it while using them to serve the photo.

But where the images you have posted on these pages are being served from your own servers, you do not have to link back. For instance, the image in this post is located at http://www.boston.com/community/photos/raw/Rising_Tide.jpg. If you were using the original flickr URL (http://www.flickr.com/photos/cc_chapman/27561064/) to serve the image you would need to link back.

Okay, so if I copy a photograph originally published on boston.com, and then post it on my own website, everything is cool as long as I'm using my bandwidth?

From the RAW Staff:

Hi, Ron -- the difference is that by uploading your photo to Flickr and adding our contest tags, as our rules state, you are expressly giving Boston.com permission to copy that photo and post it on Boston.com. If Boston.com gave you permission to post one of our photos on your site, then sure, you could do it. The difference is the permission granting.