[Geysers] Google images

[SnowMoon Photography]

I'm not sure the two are aiming for the same results - I'm not very 
familiar with what Google's up to, but I use TinEye regularly. TinEye 
works to help find YOUR photo - the exact photo you ask it to find and 
variations on it and where it's being used on the internet - their Mona 
Lisa Widget 
<http://blog.tineye.com/2008/06/25/everything-is-visual-introducing-the-tineye-mona-lisa-widget/> 
shows this the best. So it might come up with similar eruptions if taken 
from a similar angle, but I use it regularly to check for places where 
my photos show up. Basically it's one way to help protect my copyright 
and to connect to those who are using my images appropriately.

A note on copyright: If you want to protect your images, all you really 
need to do is to put © on your photos (alt + 0169) and your name - it 
gives limited protection. The best is to just register everything with 
the copyright office before you put it up anywhere - that gives your 
automatic copyright you get when releasing the shutter the teeth to 
really enforce it. If you prefer allowing use of your photos, use the 
Creative Commons licensing. Making your wishes clear helps everyone. If 
you want to learn more - Carolyn Wright, Photo Attorney 
<http://www.photoattorney.com/> has answers to most questions on her blog.

Janet White
SnowMoon, LLC
SnowMoon Photography
http://snowmoon.us

On 6/19/2011 7:49 PM, Laurie Brown wrote:
> Have you tried TinEye?
> http://www.tineye.com/
> Same sort of thing, but it might have different images to match to.
> Laurie Brown
>
>     ----- Original Message -----
>     *From:* Stephen Eide <mailto:stepheneide at cableone.net>
>     *To:* geysers <mailto:geysers at lists.wallawalla.edu>
>     *Sent:* Saturday, June 18, 2011 7:36 PM
>     *Subject:* [Geysers] Google images
>
>     Greetings and Salutations,
>     I don't know if any have tried it, but now you can drag and drop a
>     picture onto Google Images and it will attempt to identify it.  I
>     had no luck at all with Yellowstone images.  I tried four geysers;
>     Churn, Castle, Beehive, and Old Faithful and it never matched up
>     with any geyser at all.  Then I tried a picture of Colonnade
>     Falls.  Google matched it with one waterfall picture, two pictures
>     of galaxies, one picture of a dog, one picture of a rat, and a few
>     other odds and ends.  It looks like they have a few bugs to work out.
>     Steve Eide
>
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