Publication, sort of.

So a couple of weeks ago, I got email from someone at Schmap.com, an online travel guide. They'd seen some of the pictures I took at Place of Refuge on the Big Island this fall, and were asking permission to use one of them for an upcoming refresh of their Hawaii guide.

Schmap does not pay for the use of photos, but neither do they charge users for access to their content. As this wasn't an image I was going to be selling anyway, and the license they were requesting didn't seem to limit my future use, it seemed like a no-cost positive all the way around, and I was happy to give my permission, because, hey, somebody out there with no reason to be nice to me liked one of my pictures!

I am forced to admit that I was a little let down when M. said later that day, "Hey, check this out!" and showed me a remarkably similar email about one of her shots from that afternoon. But only a very little bit; M. has a great eye for an image, and the shot they chose of hers is at least as good as the one they chose of mine. (And at that, I don't think they chose the best images they could have from either hers or mine.)

Anyway, this morning, I got email saying that the update is online, so I thought I would share with y'all. The prior version of the guide had only a single image of Place of Refuge; the new version has a dozen or more, so you might have some clicking to do to get to our pics.

So, not an exclusive contract with Getty Images, nor the cover of National Geographic, but for what it is, it's pretty neat.