2006/07/27

Shannon's Wedding | Shannon 的婚禮

Shannon Rogers, a close friend in our team at Gufstream, got married last weekend. I am really happy to do photoshoot for her as the wedding gift. The wedding turned out to be very nicely and smoothly, and I was thrilled that both families treated me very kindly. I feel the couple are blessed and will be very happy thereafter. Best wishes to you, Shannon, may my photos bring you good memories.
我在 Gulfstream 同部門的同事 Shannon 在上週末結婚了,我也很榮幸擔任他們的攝影師,也當作我給她的結婚禮物。由於他們居住於 Savannah 北邊一個小時左右車程的小鎮叫做 Guyton ,我也有機會去體驗了一下真正的南方鄉村生活和風光。本來還蠻擔心在這個還是會有點排外的南方小鎮裡,人們對於我這個亞洲人會多少有點排斥,好在我是多慮了。不管是親友還是當地居民還有前一夜晚宴餐廳的人員,都對我非常客氣,可能也是因為我是新娘同事,而且免費幫他們拍照吧。據說一場婚禮攝影,美國這裡的標準收費是 $2,500左右,這也難怪 Shannon 一知道以後就非常開心,還連連道謝哩。另外還認識一位牧師,居然是在台灣出生的,原來他的母親那時隨著任職空軍的父親,到台北空軍基地協防,雖然他四個月大時全家就搬走了,對台灣人還是有種親切感,晚宴上就一直抓著我講話,還一直說要去台灣看看,煞是有趣。總之,在這個沒有太多居民的小鎮,結婚總是件大事,小小的教堂也很適切地容納了所有的來賓。然而,與我從小從大眾傳媒裡所學到的浪漫典型美國婚禮不同的是,這場婚禮既平凡,又不熱鬧,也算是體驗了一下真正的美國文化。







































































































































































































後來我把照片貼在 Flickr 上,還有人問我是不是 Stock photographer,看來我可以考慮改行了,哈。

2006/07/19

Someone Stole My Photo 作品被盜用

Thanks to Flickr User madziajk, I found that my photo “Mixing Colors” was stolen by another account called darren.redmond. I also found that another photo being blogged by Flickr Blog is there too. I warned her/him to take off all my photos on 7/14, but this person didn't respond and keep posting that photo. I was upset and angry. Then I notified Yahoo! Copyright Agent (Flickr is now a division of Yahoo!) about this and finally they promised to take appropriate action.
上周我被一位好心的 Flickr User madziajk 通知說我的照片可能被盜用,我連過去一看,果不期然,這個 darren.redmond (小姐吧)從7/11開始就一直重複貼我的 “Mixing Colors” 這張照片,上面還發現另一張照片,同是被選在3月5日的 Flickr Blog 上面。我在7/14告知此人要刪除所有盜用的照片,但是她沒有回應我而且繼續貼這兩張圖,這實在令人生氣。我已經通知 Flickr 的母公司 Yahoo! 的版權顧問,他們也已經回覆我要採取適當的行動。

Here's a screenshot of the person's Flickr Page 這就是那個人的 Flickr 相簿頁面:












darren.redmond's photos

I would never dream of my photo being stolen like this. Hope this will end soon because it is really frustrating. Best wishes to myself.
被人侵犯版權,對我來說是做夢也想不到的,現在既然發生了,也就希望這件惱人的事可以儘快解決吧。

2006/07/05

Fireworks on Savannah River 昨夜煙花燦爛

This year, I was right across from the site of fireworks over the river. It was very shocking to feel these huge fireworks this close. Here you see is a composite of some of them.
這次觀賞美國國慶煙火施放,我距離煙火只有一河之隔,所以當巨大的煙花在我面前綻放開來,我也只能和群眾一起讚嘆,實在很震撼。



















下次再看煙花,不知是在何處了。