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Happy Easter

Maria Varmazis — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 01:31:07 +0000

For all my family, friends and colleages reading, I wish you a happy Passover, Easter, Spring – any or all of the above, whichever you like to celebrate.

Maria Galatsianos

Maria Varmazis — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 20:51:57 +0000

My name is “file photo”?

Maria Varmazis — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 17:12:57 +0000

[edit2] Final update: All’s well that ends well I guess—after posting some messages on UniversalHub, I got an email from the Globe that something got mixed up in the back-end, and they apologized for the error. That’s a very fast response, I have to say! Really appreciate all the help and feedback I got on this.

This information is now outdated:

[edit] Wow. Now my name is apparently “Brian Lewis.” Oh, Boston Globe. I wonder if there’s a guy out there named Brian Lewis wondering who this Maria Varmazis is and why her name is on one of his photos.[/edit]

I got an email two days ago from the Boston Globe asking me if they could run one of my photos of the flash mob pillow fight in print and online, and, thinking little of it, I replied that indeed they could.

Though I was pretty tickled to see my photo on boston.com today (also here), I was rather disappointed when I saw the photo credit. Apparently my new name is “file photo.”

In case the link expires, here’s a screen capture:

C’mon, Globe. Really now. How hard it is to run a link to a source? That’s Internet Protocol 101 right there.

I suppose I should email them and ask for a credit, but did I really have to spell it out explicitly that they should credit me for a photo that I took? Shouldn’t they be doing that anyway?

An example of getting it right? UniversalHub ran my photo not long after the event. Thanks, Adam!

Some of the blame here is on me. Previously the photos were “all rights reserved,” but there was no explicit statement requiring credit. But that’s easy enough to fix and I’ve now put a Creative Commons license on all my photographs, stating that attribution is now required for use, even though 99.999% of my photos are measly snapshots of minutiae. Lesson learned!

Hooray! Frontpaged on UniversalHub again!

Maria Varmazis — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 14:24:34 +0000

Yet another one of my photos made it to the UniversalHub frontpage!

I was walking around the Back Bay area on Sunday night and just happened to have my camera with me. I’ve always wondered about this castle.Was this an old armory? My google-fu fails me here. Does anyone know the story behind this structure?And yes, admittedly, this is a rather sub-par photograph.

And yes, also admittedly, I’m not updating this blog NEARLY as much as I should. I’m taking a hard look at where my content is (isn’t) going, and I’m trying to figure out what makes the most sense to concentrate on here. Cardinal Rule #1 of Blogging is to keep content fresh, and I’m breaking this one left and right. It’s been nearly a month! Ai yi yi. Sorry for the silence on my part.