Anonymity III...
Jan. 9th, 2007 11:33 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rhythmaningSomething happened recently that made me think about this again. The internet really is an interesting place
A musician who plays in one of the bands that I took photos of recently must have been trawling flickr, because he found my pictures of him and the rest of the band. And he was very pleased. What he wrote was
Which was nice. Actually, it was really nice. He asked if his band could use the pictures, and I said I thought that would be fine, as long as I got a credit. I also directed him to my journal, where I had written about the gig.
I later got an email from the webmaster who runs the band’s website: he had put the photos up (with my credit), and he had quoted my journal on their reviews page – this time with a credit to me and to my journal.
Now I had an interesting conundrum. I want to be associated with my pictures: I want that picture credit. (This is curious behaviour, since my flickr username is the same as my LJ name – so it is anonymous. So clearly I don’t feel the need for people who look at my photos on flickr to know my name.) But I also want to keep my journal anonymous.
I emailed the webmaster, asking him to remove either my name or my LJ name, since I don’t want people to be able to google my name and find me on LJ; and this he has done. The pictures have my real name as a credit, the review has my LJ name.
I am still very flattered that they want to use my pictures, and a little bemused that they wanted to use what I wrote about them (though it was pretty flattering, in a gushy, amateur kind of a way). My photos have my real name as the picture credit, and my review of the gig has my LJ name.
There is an interesting aside, too: I clearly feel my photography is more me than my writing: if my pictures appear elsewhere, I want people to know they are mine.
Another aside: googling my name doesn’t return the band’s photo gallery, where my pictures (and name!) appear. Google obviously doesn’t work quite as I expected; or maybe it just takes a few days to catch up!
A musician who plays in one of the bands that I took photos of recently must have been trawling flickr, because he found my pictures of him and the rest of the band. And he was very pleased. What he wrote was
I think they are fantastic…Thanks for taking such great photos.
Which was nice. Actually, it was really nice. He asked if his band could use the pictures, and I said I thought that would be fine, as long as I got a credit. I also directed him to my journal, where I had written about the gig.
I later got an email from the webmaster who runs the band’s website: he had put the photos up (with my credit), and he had quoted my journal on their reviews page – this time with a credit to me and to my journal.
Now I had an interesting conundrum. I want to be associated with my pictures: I want that picture credit. (This is curious behaviour, since my flickr username is the same as my LJ name – so it is anonymous. So clearly I don’t feel the need for people who look at my photos on flickr to know my name.) But I also want to keep my journal anonymous.
I emailed the webmaster, asking him to remove either my name or my LJ name, since I don’t want people to be able to google my name and find me on LJ; and this he has done. The pictures have my real name as a credit, the review has my LJ name.
I am still very flattered that they want to use my pictures, and a little bemused that they wanted to use what I wrote about them (though it was pretty flattering, in a gushy, amateur kind of a way). My photos have my real name as the picture credit, and my review of the gig has my LJ name.
There is an interesting aside, too: I clearly feel my photography is more me than my writing: if my pictures appear elsewhere, I want people to know they are mine.
Another aside: googling my name doesn’t return the band’s photo gallery, where my pictures (and name!) appear. Google obviously doesn’t work quite as I expected; or maybe it just takes a few days to catch up!