“This award-winning photograph was taken by Owen Deutsch in Fox Lake, IL and is a North American Nature Photography Association (NANPA) 2011 Top 10 Showcase Winner. This Bald Eagle was chasing the Great Blue Heron away from the eggs in her nest. It wasn’t trying to kill the Heron or she would have done so long before this once in a lifetime shot was captured.”
(Owen Deutsch / owendeutsch.com)
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From Reuters earlier today.
The photographer put the Haiti images on Twitter, and they were then disseminated widely after an AFP editor discovered them through another Twitter user’s account, according to the ruling.
AFP distributed several of the pictures to Getty Images, the ruling said. The Washington Post, a Getty client, published four of the images on its website, according to the ruling.
So Morel approached AFP, which then sued Morel on grounds that it legally used his photos. Morel sued back, and sued the Washington Post and Getty as well, though at the time of this writing Getty is not in the same boat as the publishers.
The judge ruled against the AFP and WaPo based largely upon what she found in Twitter’s terms of use.
From Mashable:
While the AFP argued Morel’s work was free to use once posted to Twitter, Nathan instead found that Twitter’s Terms of Service required that news outlets first get permission before running tweeted photos.
Nathan, however, did rule that the retweeting of such photos is allowed.
Twitter has long held that photographers own their tweeted content. The company’s Terms of Service section on copyright maintains that “Twitter respects the intellectual property rights of others and expects users of the Services to do the same.”
FJP: Should be interesting to see how this plays out.
(via futurejournalismproject)
2 Stunning Photos of Senator Daniel Inouye’s Casket Lying in State
[Image: Joshua Roberts/Reuters]
Two billion pixel panoramic composite photograph of Mount Everest.
Says the photo’s creator, David Breashears:
You know, I often think about how the images that I’ve brought back from the years from Mount Everest, including the first live broadcast in 1983 to the “Everest” IMAX film and now this gigapixel imagery, I’ve often thought if that just makes the mountain seemed too accessible to people.
And I have realized that’s the call of that mountain, the iconic presence it has in our lives, and the sense of achievement it provides people with, and the sense of kudos and the feather-in-the-cap reward you get when you return home, that that is the draw of that mountain. I can’t make that mountain any more compelling than the fact that it’s 29,028 feet high, the highest point on our planet. And if that isn’t a calling card, I don’t know what is.
Japan attacks Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
A photo of the wreckage-strewn Naval Air Station at Pearl Harbor following the Japanese attack the morning of December 7, 1941.
More historical Pearl Harbor documents and photos at Franklin D. Roosevelt: Day by Day
-From the FDR Library Photograph Collection, NPx 65-458a
(via smithsonianmag)
The Largest Cut Piece of Aquamarine in the World
At 14 inches tall, the aquamarine obelisk known as the Dom Pedro is pure light. Like a cool oasis on the horizon, the cut gem stands as a pale blue beacon. It is the largest cut piece of aquamarine in the world and, after journeying from miners in Brazil to dealers in Germany and collectors in the States, the Dom Pedro, named for Brazil’s first two emperors, is now the newest addition to the Natural History Museum’s gem collection. Joining other noteworthy stones, including the much-loved Hope Diamond, the obelisk is a one-of-a-kind, according to the museum’s curator of gems and minerals Jeff Post. - Continue reading at Smithsonian.com.
Photo: Donald E. Hurlbert, Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural history
Ed note: Here is where you can see some of the world’s most famous diamonds.
Al Capone, 1931, Chicago, Illinois. Photograph by Chicago Daily News, Inc.
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Photographer Tonya Herron’s submissions to the National Geographic Photo Contest:
During a lovely morning in July I was out photographing Great White Sharks in False Bay, South Africa. We had two days when the sea was so still you could barely see a ripple.
Photo of the Day: A Puffin at the Seattle Zoo.
Photography by: Erin Tischler (Vancouver, WA); Seattle, WA.
Byron skating at Lincoln Park High School, 1987, Chicago, Illinois. Photograph by Jay King.
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We got a lot of positive feedback on our aerial photo of the Washington Monument, so we thought we’d post another one. Here’s a cool shot of the Jefferson Memorial from above.
Photo: Diana Bowen, NPS
A large pumpkin and some great mustaches, Chicago, November 13, 1902. Photograph by Chicago Daily News, Inc.
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