About me

 

I just take pictures :3

 

I don't consider myself an "artist" kind of photographer.

 

I like to think of my pictures as kind of a travelogue, to serve as record of my journeys, and to share my perspective of the world.

 

Nearly all of them are unedited, straight out of camera.

 

Permissions (use them for free!)

 

 

Most of my photos are made available under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License or under another license. The license for each image is indicated on the photo details page.

 

You can edit, republish and commercially use any photos you see that are marked "CC 3.0 Attribution". You can even sell prints without asking.

 

Attribution may be given to "Aranami".

 

What about publicity rights? What is "Editorial Use Only"?

 

When a photo is marked with a Creative Commons license, the rights I have as the photographer are granted to you under those terms. But this license can't include things I don't own, like company logos, storefronts, or character designs.

 

An "Editorial Use Only" notice by me on a photo means that commercial usage of the photo is limited by an underlying or neighboring rights, like personality rights or trademarks. It is not intended to impose additional conditions or alter the license terms, but remind you that certain uses require permission from other people or companies.

 

Most of my photos are taken in public areas where no reasonable expectation of privacy exists, or at events where a general release has been posted, and it is always visibly apparent that photographic recording is taking place. When you're using this type of photo to provide information, as opposed to selling a product or service, you don't need permission from subjects that appear in them (in most cases). That's referred to as "editorial use".

 

Here's some examples:

 

A picture of a storefront (like a Boston Market restaurant) can be used next to a review of that store without their permission. But the store could tell you that you cannot sell prints of the photo, because storefronts can actually be copyrighted.

 

A picture of a cosplayer wearing a copyrighted character design at a convention (say, Samantha dressed as Marvel's Thor) can be used in a news article about that convention without Samantha or Marvel's permission. But using the same photo in a flyer to advertise your comic book store could get you in trouble when Samantha finds out.

 

A picture of a Hershey's chocolate bar can be used to identify the company in a tweet about the stock price of The Hershey Company, or provide context to a blog post about a worldwide cocoa shortage. On the other hand, Hershey could consider it an unauthorized endorsement if you show their product next to a review of your lose-weight-through-chocolate diet book.

 

I've tried to ensure that any image where the subject is a single individual person is marked as "All Rights Reserved", which means that no Creative Commons licenses applies. If you appear in any of my photos and still want to be removed, please ask me and I will usually do so.