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Oh Where, Oh Where, Has The Artist Gone?

31 Friday Aug 2018

Posted by dtkrippene in Social Media, Using Graphics

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Lost on the sands of unfindable endings for the book I'm writing Photo by Pawel Nolbert via Unsplash

Pawel Nolbert via Unsplash.com

Sharing artwork and photographs on Social Media is fun. Sometimes, however, it’s used in a blog article or illustration without citing the artist or photographer. Google’s reverse image search can help find the artist, but doesn’t always yield results.

As a stickler for proper attribution for art or photographs, I check for copyright and always cite the artist or photographer’s name with links.  Unless it’s an established art site, however, searching for the artist or photographer from a Pinterest post, Facebook, or Twitter picture may send you into a desert shouting, Who made this?

I’m always on the lookout for potential book cover ideas, character art, and scenes to give me inspiration.  Like a painter who searches for the perfect model or scene to paint, I glean art sites for faces and places. Pinterest boards are my main go-to, along with a few others like DeviantArt.com, and ArtStation.com.

The files I keep are either stored on my Pinterest boards, or file folder for use in a blog article, twitter message, Facebook, or to have as a stimulus for a chapter I’m writing. Wasn’t always this conscientious in past years, where I sometimes linked the Pinterest page or site I copied it from as the source – which often doesn’t identify where they found it.  

Got educated several years ago when I received a “Dear DT” email from the artist who created an artwork piece I used in a blog. He graciously forgave my indiscretion, provided I properly attribute it to his artist website.  Dodged a bullet. Color me lucky – and schooled. I spoke on this in a 2015 blog I wrote, Good Images Speak a Thousand Words – But Is It Legal? 

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Good Images Speak a Thousand Words – But Is It Legal?

15 Wednesday Jul 2015

Posted by dtkrippene in On Writing, Social Media

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From: Olly18 – Depositphotos.com

From: Olly18 – Depositphotos.com

Two things I learned about posting articles — good content, and killer images.  Something about that picture tells a story, has me spending almost as much time searching for the right image as I do writing the article itself.  Professional blog mavens claim an article graphic more than doubles site visitation, and acts as a lure to get visitors to stop and actually read the article. No shortage of great material on the internet’s cyclopean browser engine, finding good blog photos or illustrations can be a blessing of convenience or a pitfall of copyright infringement.

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A native of Wisconsin and Connecticut, DT deserted aspirations of being a biologist to live the corporate dream and raise a family. After six homes, a ten-year stint working in Asia, and an imagination that never slept, his muse refused to be hobbled as a mere dream. A member of the Bethlehem Writers Group and social media chair for the Greater Lehigh Valley Writers Group, DT writes dystopian science fiction, paranormal, and alternate-world fantasy. DT appears in the "Write Here – Write Now" short story collection with a middle-grade paranormal, Locker 33C, the paranormal collection, "Untethered" with Hell of a Deal, and a featured author with the "Writers Roundtable Magazine" with Snowbelt Sanctuary and In Simple Terms. His latest project is an apocalyptic tale of humans on the edge extinction, and a young man born years after surviving humans had been rendered sterile. You can find D.T. on his website and his social media links, Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest.

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