Like the majority of people, I take photographs because I enjoy capturing beautiful scenes and sharing them with the rest of the world. I do not take photographs with the intention of starting a stock photo business or having any financial return from the photos I take. I think the majority of people around here are the same, they do it purely for the fun of it.

I have chosen to upload all the pictures that I have taken on Flickr in high resolution without a watermark and under an attribution non-commercial license so that anyone who wishes to use these photographs for a non-commercial purpose can do so without asking me for permission as long as that person mentions somewhere on his work that I am the author of that photograph.

I know that there are some people who might decide to use my picture in a commercial work and without attributing me at all, but piracy on the internet is a fact of life and these people would have done so even if I claimed that all my rights are reserved and put a watermark on my photographs (they would just photoshop it out), so there is really no point in spoiling my photos with a huge ugly watermark and prevent the rest of the world from using these photographs in all sorts of works that I never knew existed.

Creativity does not come from a vacuum, we are all inspired by the works of others and everything else around us. Why don’t we give a little something back in return so that others can build on their own creative works on top of them?

You can see the photographs I posted online here at Flickr.