When taking photos sometimes you catch something intended or unintended that appears in the background. This is what Pick over at WordPress has challenged us to find in our photos! I hope you enjoy these photos of what is in the background!
Let’s start with a photo I took at the San Diego Zoo of a Leopard taking a nap!
In this next photo, see if you can find the cat!
And behind the fencing in this photo you will see an unlikely pair of friends!
On our recent trip, while visiting the town of Ensenada, I captured the town in this background shot!
Standing on the deck of the cruise ship, check out this white building that pops in this photo!
On the cruise ship I witnessed one seagull watching over another taking a bath!
Please do check out some of the other posts by visiting the WordPress challenge! You can do so by clicking here!
Now go out and have a wonderful day, and thank you for the visit!







































































Illegal Use of Your Blog Content
May 23, 2013 by babso2you
I am always curious how people find my blog and I take a look at the search terms in my statistics to see how it is that they find me. A couple of days ago, while looking at the search terms I Googled one particular phrase that led someone to my page. I just happened to look at the “images” and found one of my photos leading me to a website that was using one of my photos as their own. You might remember this photo from a post I did in March of 2012.
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I was astounded when I saw this, and immediately looked for contact information on their site and graciously asked them to remove my photo as they did not have my express written permission to use my photos as is indicated on my blog page. They ignored my request.
So, I next turned to the WordPress Support Forum and the folks that responded to me were most helpful. What I want to share is the information passed on to me by helpful members of the WordPress community.
I needed to find out who was hosting this website so that I could contact them directly. I was directed to this website that can help you figure out who hosts the offending site: Who is Hosting This?
I was also directed to information that would help me with this issue. Here are a couple of links to articles that were very helpful! These articles are chockful of very useful information!
From the site “ManoloFood.com” I was directed to a really good article entitled: Whine Journalism and How to Bring the Splashback
From WordPress, more great information: Content Theft and What to Do
I have been contacted by the hosting website of the offender and had to send them a DMCA (Digital Millenium Copyright Act) notice, which I have done. This is a letter to the web host that you sign under penalty of perjury. It indicates the site illegally using your content and you add in the link to where your content was stolen from. It asks for the hosting website to immediately remove or disable access to “the infringing material.”
Currently, the offending site does not have any photos showing on the page where my photo was illegally used. I am hoping for a quick resolution of this violation.
A huge thank you goes out to Raincoaster, Happiness Engineer MacManx, and TimeThief!
Hopefully my fellow bloggers and followers, this will not happen to you. And if it does, I hope that the information passed on to me and included in this post will help you!
Have a great Thursday and thanks for visiting!
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