Samur Lily (c) 2009 Patty Hankins
Lots of links this week since I didn’t get a links post done last week – hope you find them interesting
Photography and Art Links
Ask Harriete has Help! My work’s been sold and I’m not getting paid? What do I do?
Plagiarism Today has 11 Free Online Copyright Tools for Photographers and Artists and The Strange Case of the iPower DMCA Notice
PhotoAttorney has Five Things You Can Do To Protect Your Online Images and The Next Best Resource for Copyright Law
ThinkGeek has Officially Our Best Ever Cease and Desist
Barney Davey has The Case For Open Edition Prints – Part II
Beyond Megapixels has Traveling with Your Camera Gear
Dear Rich has Keeping Monuments Safe From Photography
LightStalking has the Three Main Challenges of Zoo Photography (and How to Overcome Them)
Maria Brophy has The Price of Opportunity and Playing Art Banker
Alyson Stanfield has Five Reasons to Join and Be Active in an Artist Organization
Jeff Revell has Shoot in RAW – It’s What Ansel Adams Would Do
Flower, Gardening and Plant Links
Flickriver has a Ghost Orchid Time Lapse
Homestead Gardens has Mike McGrath on Gardening for Wildlife
NY Times has A Garden Crawl Through the Garden State
The Telegraph has Orchids Make a Comback Thanks to End of Cutting Lawns
National Park & National Wildlife Refuge Links
National Park Traveler has Traveler’s Checklist: Shenandoah National Park, Virgin Islands National Park Grows by 2 Acres Thanks to Donation, Surprising Coral Reef Found at Virgin Islands National Monument, Far Below and Long Ago Along the Blue Ridge Parkway, and America’s Great Outdoors: Your Chance to Speak Up
Science Daily has Studies Confirm Presence, Severity of Pollution in National Parks
Wildlife Links
LiveScience has Small Creatures will be Oil Spill’s Biggest Victims
National Parks Traveler has Sea Turtle Hatchlings Set Free at Padre Island National Seashore Despite Tar Balls, Litter of Mountain Lion Kittens Found at Santa Monica Mountains NRA, Loggerhead Sea Turtle Crushed by Vehicle at Cape Hatteras National Seashore, Dangerous Lionfish Invading Waters of Key Biscayne National Park, and Groups Notify BP, US Coast Guard They’ll Be Sued Over Burning of Kemp’s Ridley Sea Turtles
Christian Science Monitor has Sea Turtle Followed to Learn How To Protect Endangered Species
Science Daily has Discovery of How Coral Reefs Adapt to Global Warming Could Aid in Reef Restoration
Miami Herald has Florida Rushes to the Rescue again to Save Oil-Soaked Pelicans
Middle of Everywhere has Who is Under Your Beach Towel?
NY Times has US Plans Extraordinary Measures to Rescue Turtles Along the Gulf Coast
Scientific American has Drastic Measures: 8 Wild Ways to Combat Invasive Species
Daledesigns has White Tigers Get New Mom
And if you need a dose of cuteness . . . Land of PureGold Foundation has Teaching Babies to Swim, Oh My – watch baby otters learn to swim
Environmental Issues Links
Christian Science Monitor has Gulf Oil Spill: Can Earth Survive this Disaster?
Ocean Doctor has Want to Help the Gulf of Mexico? Kill Your Lawn
USFWS has posted a video on YouTube about Boom: Our Defense Line