For some time, I’ve been using CC-licensed images on my blog posts and elsewhere as well.  CC Search makes that easy, as does Compfight.

I’m using far less text and far more images when I create presentations or workshops.  Here, you still get lots of text.  So it goes.

I think it’s important to give credit to the people who offer the images, and so I try always to make the image itself a link back to the source.  And I try to include a credit (like at the bottom of my posts), linking to the photographer’s profile.

One other thing I’ve been doing is writing a brief note to the photographer.  I thank him for sharing. I include a link to the photo (so he knows which one I’m talking about), and I include a link to the blog post (in case he’s curious about how I used the image).

I’m often surprised by the associations I make based on the images.  Even if my contact with the photographer is a one-time thing, it reminds me that there aren’t events–but there are connections.

By the way, the April edition of the Working / Learning blog carnival has arrived, hosted at Dave Wilkins’ Social Enterprise blog.  It’s worth a visit.

If you don’t think you can contribute this time around, Kevin Jones of Engaged Learning will host the May edition.  (Wanna host in June?)

CC-licensed hoto of phone photo by Dave.Hull.