Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/01/29

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Subject: [Leica] IMG: My most viewed photo, and tracking online use of ones images
From: geordiepete211 at yahoo.co.uk (Peter Cheyne)
Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2011 17:02:04 +0900

I looked up my most viewed and most 'favourited' image on Flickr, and,  
no surprises, it was of a pretty Japanese tattooed lady in bikini on  
the beach.

<http://www.flickr.com/photos/geordiepete/220004103/#/photos/geordiepete/220004103/lightbox/
 
 >

I think other LUGgers have found similar results with their photos.

Most of the views came from outside Flickr, and were directed by  
tattoo websites.  I'm not *too* bothered that permission to link to my  
photos wasn't asked, because I don't have any delusions about being a  
good photographer.  However, it got me thinking, it would be useful  
for every image to have an embedded code so that photographers and  
illustrators could track the use of their images online.  Some kind of  
invisible watermark that can be traced by a Google search.  Does such  
a thing exist?

Peter Cheyne


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