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I always get excited when people contact me on Flickr wanting to use my photos.  If you’ve been on Flickr for long enough, you’ve probably been contacted by Schmap or NowPublic reps wanting to use your photos on their websites.  It’s a pretty cool feeling.  Every now and then, I’ll get contacted by someone who personally came across my photos and wants to use it for one thing or another.

Here are the more memorable ones:

Justin Racz wanted to use this photo in his book, 50 Bosses Worse Than Yours.  (Can you guess who the boss is?) I actually never bought the book to verify that my photo made it in there — but even if it isn’t, at least it was considered!  He was supposed to mail me a copy of his book but he never did. 

Elana Farley, one of the photo editors of Texas Bound (a supplement to Texas Monthly), contacted me to use this photo from a crabbing trip to Galveston.  She was by far the most thoughtful in thanking me for the use of my photo, she sent me the most current issue of their mini mag and a cool postcard with a handwritten message!

Ronnie Walker wanted to use my photo of Charlie, Judy and Lawrence’s dog, on his Grief Support for Survivors of Suicide website.  I guess he thought Charlie was pretty comforting.

John Tsotsoros, cast member in the Opera in the Heights production of Adriana Lecouvreur, contacted me to ask for permission to use my photos of him that I took during the dress rehearsal to update his website.

Last but not least, I was contacted by Steven Robinson a few weeks ago to use this photo in a press release for his company, Access IS, in relation to an Access keyboard for Nike America.

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With the exception of maybe the last photo, I don’t really like any of the other photos.  But I think it’s worth mentioning because it’s pretty cool that Flickr is connecting people who need photos and people who like taking photos.  And this is also hopefully encouragement to people to tag their photos more frequently and submit them to more Flickr groups.  Sigh, I’m behind on tagging.