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Links – May 20, 2011

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These are a few articles I enjoyed reading this week. Hope you find some interesting links . . .

Photography and Art Links

PhotoAttorney has   Quote of the Day – Cariou v. Prince  and  Have You Granted Your Client An Implied License?

10,000 Birds has Photographing Wood-Warblers

Dan Williams has Nature Photography…….With elements of Man

DIY Photography had Your Complete Guide For Photographing Star Trails

Small Aperture has Your Pictures; Your Rights, redux

NYTimes has Christo’s Colorado Project May Hinge on Sheep

LightStalking has A Killer Collection of Adobe LightRoom Tutorials

Flowers, Plants & Gardening Links

Christian Science Monitor has Daylilies are wonderful flowers, but, oh, their names and How to have a ‘Star Trek’ garden

BBC has Invasion of the orchid snatchers

National Park and National Wildlife Refuge Links

National Parks Traveler has Celebrate “National Kids To Parks Day” This Saturday and  History Of American Mountain Music To Be Told At Blue Ridge Parkway

Refuge Watch has “Restoring America’s Wildlife Refuges 2011: Assets for All Americans”

Wildlife Links

NY Times has A Coast-to-Coast Guide to Endangered Species

Audubon Magazine has Mysterious Rodent Not Seen for a Century Appears At Colombian Eco-Lodge

MSNBC has Camels in Australia? 1 million causing havoc

Salem-News.com has Second Wave of Mystery Pelican Deaths Hits Topsail Beach, NC

Environmental Issues Links

BBC News has Rising resource use threatens future growth, warns UN

Links – May 13, 2011

Gray’s Lily (c) 2010 Patty Hankins

These are a few articles I enjoyed reading this week. Hope you find some interesting links . . .

Photography and Art Links

Dan Williams has Research and Planning the Shot  and Making Directional-lighting Work for You

PhotoRadar has New Jersey Bill Would Ban Child Photography

Fine Art Views has Exposure: The Ugly Myth

The Online Photographer has To USB or Not to USB

Kirk Tuck has Approval. Tacit Approval. Implied Approval and “Street Photography.”

Guy Tal has Don’t be an Idiot

Michael Albany has The Photography Business, It’s Not about Photography

ArtBizBlog has High-Quality Connections on Twitter

National Parks Traveler has Dream Of Being Artist-In-Residence at a National Park? Here’s the List Of Participating National Parks

Plagiarism Today has The Twitpic Terms of Service Debacle

Flowers, Plants & Gardening Links

NYTimes had A Method Behind All the Wildness

National Wildlife Federation has Wildlife Gardening for Beginners: Five Simple Steps

Beautiful Wildlife Garden has Beware Cheap Wildflowers

National Park and National Wildlife Refuge Links

National Parks Traveler has Does Today’s Technology Offer A Better Connection, Or A Disconnect, To Enjoying National Parks? and   Walls at Risk of Collapse at Historic Fort Jefferson Make “Crumbling Infrastructure” a Harsh Reality

Refuge Watch has Fire Fighting Effort at Alligator River NWR Hampered by State Budget Cuts

Wildlife Links

Stop Extinction has Endangered Species Day

NBC Washington has Campaign to Drive Out the Nutria

BBC has   Tiger find prompts WWF pressure against planned logging

National Parks Traveler has  “State of Birds” Report Points To Value of National Parks, Other Public Lands For Birds

New3 has Kiwi found in Russia baffles authorities, wildlife experts

Environmental Issues Links

NYTimes has Coal Curriculum Called Unfit for 4th Graders,   Young Activists Sue U.S., States Over Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Report Stresses Urgency of Action on Climate
The Guardian has Biodiversity: It’s the ecology, stupid

Links – May 6, 2011

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Lots of links since it’s been a few weeks since I’ve posted a links post. Hope you find some interesting links . . .

Photography and Art Links

PhotoAttorney has Diary of a Copyright Infringement Lawsuit – Part 1, Part 2, Part 2a

Environmental Grafitti has Animals Quenching their Thirst from Inside an African Watering Hole

Black Star Rising has Action, Not Anger, Is Photographers’ Best Response to Getty

A Photo Editor has How To Credit

Plagiarism Today has 4 DMCA Notice Generators Compared

PDNOnline has ASMP to Getty Photographers: Time to Bail

Flowers, Plants & Gardening Links

Associated Content has Allergy Problems Can Be Traced to Male Trees

NPCA has Growing is Forever

National Park and National Wildlife Refuge Links

National Parks Traveler has Tornado Damage Leads To Closure of Some Hiking Trails in Great Smoky Mountains National ParkFierce Winter Challenging Snow-Plowing Efforts In Glacier, Rocky Mountain, Yellowstone National Parks,   Construction Making It Tough To Drive The Blue Ridge Parkway This Summer,   Plans To Shut Down Coal-Fired Power Plants Should Help Clear Air Over Great Smoky Mountains National Park and Sixty Years Later, “Permanent” Oconaluftee Visitor Center Opens In Great Smoky Mountains National Park

NYTimes has Wilderness Bills Proliferate as Promoters Hope to Break 2-Year Drought

Wildlife Links

BBC has Penguins suffer as Antarctic krill declines

National Parks Traveler has Kemp’s Ridley Turtle Nesting Season Off To Good Start At Padre Island National SeashoreYellowstone National Park Bison Gain Winter Access to 75,000 Acres in Montana and    Stripping ESA Protections From Northern Rockies Wolf Packs Could Harm Yellowstone National Park Wolves

STV has Legendary breeding osprey lays egg during surprise return to Scotland

AP has Polar bear cub rescued at Alaska oil field

Environmental Issues Links

MSNBC has  Head for the woods during International Year of Forests   and  A year after the oil spill, the Cat Island ecosystem struggles to recover

National Parks Traveler has Array Of 17 Stations Will Help National Park Service Track Climate Events in Alaska

Mongabay has NASA Image Reveals Extent of Deforestation in Brazil

Links – April 15, 2011

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Fiesta del Sol Mexican Sunflower (c) 2010 Patty Hankins

Just a few links this week – and not very organized since I’m writing this post on the road. I’m in Tennessee photographing wildflowers for the next couple of weeks 🙂

PhotoAttorney has Diary of a Copyright Infringement Lawsuit – 1

Plagiariams Today has 4 DMCA Notice Generators Compared

National Parks Traveler has Sixty Years Later, “Permanent” Oconaluftee Visitor Center Opens In Great Smoky Mountains National Park and Stripping ESA Protections From Northern Rockies Wolf Packs Could Harm Yellowstone National Park Wolves

BBC News has Penguins suffer as Antarctic krill declines

Envrinomental Graffiti has  Animals Quenching their Thirst from Inside an African Watering Hole

Links – April 8, 2011

False Bugbane (c) 2010 Patty Hankins

Here are some links I found this week. Hope you find some of these links to be of interest.

Photography and Art Links

Cary Norton has Legotron, Mark I — 4×5 Camera made of LEGO bricks

PhotoAttorney has Are the Proposed Bills to Prevent Photos of Farms Legal?

The Wall Street Journal has When Appropriation Masquerades as Reconceptualized Art

Pixiq has   How to Write and Sell a Photo Story

Washington Post has  Civil War faces live again at Library of Congress

Plagiarism Today has 5 Mistakes “Anti-Copyrights” Constantly Make

Mother Nature Network has 10 images of the Earth that look like art

Flowers, Plants & Gardening Links

National Parks Traveler has Summer Special: Wildflowers in the National Parks

Reno Gazette Journal has Master Gardener: Native plants create a ‘sense of place’ in landscaping

Beacon News has Controlled burns: Igniting nature’s beauty through fire

Christian Science Monitor has  Native plants help sustain birds and beneficial insects

National Park and National Wildlife Refuge Links

National Parks Traveler has  Gettysburg National Military Park Moving Into Blogging To Commemorate Civil War

Wildlife Links

eScience News has  Leatherback sea turtle nests increasing in Florida

National Wildlife Federation has  Declining Rainfall in Tropics Affects Migratory Birds

Audubon Magazine has  17 Tips for Making Your Backyard Wildlife Friendly on a Budget

CNN has  Penguin rescue operation under way after south Atlantic oil spill

Bay Daily has  Unprecedented Effort to Protect Endangered Species Gives Way to Maryland’s Largest Coal Mine

UC Davis has  Two new studies link hunting to lead in scavenger birds

Environmental Issues Links

Grist.org has EPA reports massive drop in U.S. greenhouse-gas emissions

BBC has Glaciers in Chile ‘melt at fastest rate in 350 years’

Links – April 1, 2011

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American Dogwood (c) 2010 Patty Hankins

 

Lots of links this week since I didn’t get a links post done last week. Hope you find some of these links to be of interest.

Photography and Art Links

Virtual Photography Studio has  Do You Have To Travel To Be A Travel Photographer?

The Discerning Photographer has Getting ‘Out the Door’

Behind the Lens has How small is your audience?

The Online Photographer has  Two Lawsuits Settled

Plagiarism Today has  Google Accepts Form DMCA Notices for All Services and  The Problem with the Fifth Fair Use Factor

PDNOnline has Photographer Jailed for Baiting Wildlife

Maria Brophy has  Artists Beware of these Red Flags in Contracts

Silbur Studios has  1914 Color Images of Antarctica by Photographer Frank Hurley

Pixiq has  Photographer Patrick Cariou Wins Case Over Artist Richard Prince and  Is Photography An Art? I Got An Email That Says No

PhotoAttorney has  Steps to Prepare Your Images for Copyright Registration Using Photoshop®

 

Flowers, Plants & Gardening Links

NewScientist has Botanic gardens blamed for spreading plant invaders

Christian Science Monitor has  Native plants help birds and small wildlife

Discovery News has  Mathematical Budding Model Revealed in a Lily and  Hoosier Flowers Losing Ground to Invasives

Laurel LeaderCall has Nonnative privet has no natural predators

 

National Park and National Wildlife Refuge Links

National Parks Traveler has Persistence Pays – Important Tract Finally Added to Gettysburg National Military Park, Congress Slashes $101 Million From National Park Service Budget. More To Come? ,    Rocky Mountain National Park To Resume Battle With Bark Beetles,   Free Water Soon To Be Available On North, South Rims of Grand Canyon National Park and A Walk Around Alaska, The Andrew Skurka Story

National Wildlife Refuge System has  Are any wildlife refuges named for women?

 

Wildlife Links

Wildlife Extra has  Leopard photographed in Yemen for the first time

The Great Beyond has  Penguins in peril after South Atlantic oil leak – March 21, 2011

Adventure Journal has  See What the Polar Bear Spy Cam Captured

Stuff.co.nz has  Rare lion cubs saved in war-torn Somalia

BBC has India wild tiger census shows population rise

LiveScience has Corals Moving North to Escape Warming

Baltimore Sun has Deadly bat fungus spreads in Maryland

FoxNews has  2,000-Year-Old Coral Found Near BP Gulf Well

National Parks Traveler has  Humpback Whale from Glacier Bay National Park is a Regular Winter Resident of Hawai’i

 

Environmental Issues Links

The Prairie Ecologist has  Why Prescribed Fires in Grasslands Don’t Contribute to Global Warming

Oceana has 10 Things You Can Do to Save the Oceans