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Maastrichtian Window: Hornby Island's Lambert Formation
By Heidi Henderson | July 21st 2009 04:23 PM | 5 comments | Print | E-mail | Track Comments
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About Heidi Henderson

Chair of the Vancouver Paleontological Society. Co-author of In Search of Ancient BC, Volume I, Heartland Publishing.
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Hornby, one of the northern Gulf Islands on the west coast of British Columbia, has some of the best preserved fossil specimens of the Pacific Northwest. Many species of ammonites, bivalves and their marine compatriots can be found in the Upper Cretaceous shales and concretions of the Lambert Formation.

Interestingly, they are remarkably similar to the ones you find in the French and Tamil areas of Pondicherry, India, their presence providing a window back into the Maastrichtian some 70-million years ago.

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Heidi,

I do not recall giving you permission to use my photograph in your article.
I appreciate the link, and the fact that you like the photo, but I would prefer to receive a request to use my photo rather than stumbling across it on-line. Please keep this in mind in the future.

Thanks in advance.

ash

ash (not verified) | 07/23/09 | 12:36 PM
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H^2, are you using the Flickr search inside our editor?  We use the Yahoo/Flickr API so only creative commons usable pictures should show up (i.e., they made it so they should have it right) but on the guy's pic it says 'all rights reserved.'   So if you are just searching on google or something, that is bad but if the Flickr API is wrong they need to know about it.

Hank Campbell | 07/23/09 | 12:43 PM
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I'm definitely using the internal ap. I've changed the image and have alerted the photographer of the one shown to ensure they are okay with the post.

Heidi Henderson | 07/26/09 | 18:49 PM
it wasn't too difficult... your computer speak has gone over my head : )
i'm not entirely clear on the creative commons concept, so if you were justified in using the photo, that's fine. i just think it would be common courtesy to let the creator of the image/photo know that you're using it first (if for nothing else but for them to tell their friends that someone liked their photo enough to use it on their website).

ash (not verified) | 07/23/09 | 20:20 PM
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When you upload a photo on Flickr, you choose how it can used.   As you see in that link, creative commons is a license (we use it here also) which in your case says 'all rights are restricted' - no one can use it.   If you want people to be able to use it if they credit you, or with credit only for non-commerical purposes, you use that license instead.  Obviously H^2 wasn't trying to lift anything from you ... she wouldn't have put a link to your site if she were stealing it (and she isn't the type - she's totally a giver, not a taker) and a link is basically a way of letting you know she liked it and used it.  That's how you found her.  But it's your property, you said take it down, so it's down.

Now we have to gripe at Yahoo for messing up their own Flickr API and allowing pictures in our search button that can't actually be used.

Hank Campbell | 07/23/09 | 20:50 PM

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