Wild Bleeding Hearts (c) 2009 Patty Hankins
Here are some links I found interesting this week – hope you find them useful
Maria Brophy has How to Never Get Ripped Off Again for Freelancers and Beware of the Online Art Contest
Greeting Card Designer has an Interview with Alyson Stanfield on Protecting Your Art
Dear Rich has First North American Serial Rights: What’s the Story?
Gizmodo has Are Cameras the New Guns?
PhotoAttorney has More Bad Photo Contests and Adorama Camera Revises Photo Contest Rules for the Better
PhotoTraveler has Enter into Pop Photo’s “Travelographer of the Year” Competition
Copyright Law and Copyright Information has The Basics of Copyright – Registration and Duration
PhotoShelter has Top 10 Ways to Piss Off a Photographer
PDN has LA Photographer Cleared of Criminal Charges
Your Photo Tips has Today’s Top 100 Photographers on Twitter – Thanks Damien for including me as # 68 on the list
Mark Dubovoy has Photographing Waterfalls on the Luminous Landscape site.
Flower, Gardening and Plant Links
National Parks Traveler has Craters of the Moon National Monument Offers Wildflower Walks in June
National Park & National Wildlife Refuge Links
Christian Science Monitor has Ex-Rangers Ride to the Rescue of World’s National Parks
National Parks Traveler has List of Top 10 Endangered Rivers Includes 2 That Flow through the NPS System,
Florida Today has Merritt Island Refuge May be Best For Oil-Tainted Wildlife
Wildlife Links
The Miami Herald has Crist signs Fla Python ban
Boston.com has Caught in the Oil – very disturbing photos of wildlife caught in the gulf oil spill
The Guardian UK has the Top 50 Wildlife and Conservation Twitter Accounts
Scientific American has Extinction Countdown: Threatened Tortoises Become Tempting Target for Thieves
Refuge Watch has Second Ocelot Kitten Discovered at Laguna Atascosa NWR
BBC has Humpback Whales Form Friendships that Last Years
USA Today has Oil’s Gruesome Toll on Wildlife Slowly Emerges
Wildlife Extra News has Wild Whooping Crane Chicks Hatch at Necedah NWR
National Parks Traveler has Circumstances Force NPS to Actively Manage Wildlife