Over New Years we took a lovely family vacation to Adelaide. I quickly took a snap on New Years Eve Day 2008 at Semaphore Beach. This morning I found an email from Schmap online travel guides asking permission to shortlist this photo – which I had saved as Creative Commons on Flickr – for their page on Semaphore.
Semaphore Beach – blue skies – soft sand
Now I can join my friends Andy Piper and Amy Palko as someone who has been schmapped! Nice surprise 
Do you save your content as Creative Commons? I really enjoyed this story by Jeremy Keith about his Flickr photo which became a background image in the recent Iron Man movie!
Yay! And there’s an iPhone app now called GeoTweeter which is powered by Schmap
Hi Andy! Do you think Schmap just ask Flickr’ers who blog for photos? I had never heard of them before Twitter!
I got approached by the BBC educuational unit last year asking if they could use a picture of mine in some online revision material for kids doing their exams.
It’s not the most glamorous of photos but I was so proud to think of my picture being used to help in this way!
http://tinyurl.com/aow6td
I love making my photographs available through CC – you never know where they might end up…
Hi Joanna! That’s great! I was also surprised they chose this particular photo, but as you say when you know it helps somehow…
Today I also had a request to add my photo of the rambutan fruit to a Flickr group for an island in the Philippines. So true – you never know where they might end up – or who might experience a memory, an insight, or even a journey as a result!
Jazz – both @trib and I have been schmapped … mine was actually the same photo I submitted for your SOS project …
aha! I *knew* there was someone else who had been schmapped! High Five *schmaps* all ’round!