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EDIT 5/16/2013: In a move to simplify my Terms of Use and make my stock more accessible, I have decided to adopt a Creative Commons License - Attribution 3.0 Unported.
You are free:
to Share — to copy, distribute and transmit my work
to Remix — to adapt my work
to make commercial use of my work
Under the following conditions:
Attribution — You must attribute the work in the manner specified by me (but not in any way that suggests that I endorse you or your use of the work).
More specifically, you are required to credit and link back to me and the image used from my deviantART account.
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That is all concerning my newly revised Stock Rules. Thank you kindly for the support, your feedback has been very helpful when I asked you about the possibility of switching to Creative Commons
In the end I hope it will make life easier for you to read less rules, while encouraging a little more fair use and artistic merit by including credits. And yes, this also means you are free to use my stock in premade backgrounds! 
Regards,
Nicolas Raymond
You are free:
to Share — to copy, distribute and transmit my work to Remix — to adapt my work to make commercial use of my workUnder the following conditions:
Attribution — You must attribute the work in the manner specified by me (but not in any way that suggests that I endorse you or your use of the work).More specifically, you are required to credit and link back to me and the image used from my deviantART account.
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That is all concerning my newly revised Stock Rules. Thank you kindly for the support, your feedback has been very helpful when I asked you about the possibility of switching to Creative Commons
In the end I hope it will make life easier for you to read less rules, while encouraging a little more fair use and artistic merit by including credits. And yes, this also means you are free to use my stock in premade backgrounds! Regards,
Nicolas Raymond
Google Bard + Maps
I was researching waterfalls recently, and asked Google Bard to help me out. Really impressed with the result, take a look at the following screenshot I stitched together: The question I asked was really simple, yet Bard chose to add a little extra information about the more popular waterfalls in the area. Even better, it returned a map for better visualization. This is a huge deal to me. Before Bard, I would typically spend many hours researching stuff like this and dropping pins on Google Maps one-by-one before going on a photo trip. It is a very meticulous and mind-numbing process, but now I am starting to see how Google Bard can help cut down my planning time by several orders of magnitude. I didn't get to Warsaw (New York State) by accident either. I think it started last week when I was curious about when the next total solar eclipse would happen near where I live (Washington DC). Google Bard answered April 8, 2024, but I would have to go further up North to see the eclipse
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I want to thank dA for the hard work you've been doing with DeviantArt Protect. For the most part I have to admit I've been ignoring messages about how it works, but have been noticing your notifications in my Correspondence feed. One notice in particular caught my attention from someone who posted my stock photo above as is and without due credit as an NFT on opensea.io . Something I followed up on by sending a takedown request to OpenSea, and within hours the image was removed from its site. Needless to say, I am very grateful that DeviantArt is taking proactive measures to help protect copyrights. Some years ago I was skeptical, and almost gave up on this site after a dA administrator said he would no longer accept takedown requests from stock photo providers. I fought hard against that, and dA eventually reversed course to accept copyright complaints from stock providers... but it still left a bitter aftertaste as I was alienated from a certain group of contributors who felt
Renewed Optimism
Been a while since my last journal entry, or comments for that matter beyond my occasional replies. A tough year to be sure, at times testing my own patience & sanity even as an introvert, but always grateful for your support. Meanwhile I'd like to share this journal entry with you, taken from my own & previously neglected blog at https://www.boldfrontiers.com/blog/2020/12/renewed-optimism Once upon a time in what seems the distant past of 2019, life was great and photo opportunities were teeming at every corner. I had started the New Year with a trip to Wales (UK), spring in Utah & Idaho, then autumn in Virginia, Tennessee & North Carolina. Fast forward a few months, news of a novel coronavirus started trickling in. Thinking at first it would subside with some isolated cases on the West coast, that it could be contained like previous outbreaks of SARS & Ebola. Recalling early conversations from when Covid19 was more of a whisper paling in comparison to the seasonal flu, only to
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This is awesome! I'm always using for beautiful backgrounds for my Bookstagram! I sent you a private chat as well. Thanks so much, you have a beautiful photo library.