This image is honored as Wikipdia Picture of the Day 28 July 2009
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(Best of 3) Sea Otter (Enhydra lutris) mother with nursing pup in the Morro Bay harbor, Morro Bay, CA. 27 Oct. 2008. Michael "Mike" L. Baird, Canon 1D Mark III, 600mm f/4 IS with circular polarizer, on tripod.
17 July 2009 Creative Commons use note
24 July 2009: Self-promotion - (and NEW RELATED CLASS - see below) - I
was honored to get one of my sea otter with pup images www.flickr.com/photos/mikebaird/2979351573/ be selected as Wikipedia Picture of the Day for 28 July 2009 as seen
at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:POTD/2009-07-28
Six of my sea otter images are used on the Wikipedia Sea Otter
definition page at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_otter
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sea_otter_nursing02.jpg
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sea-otter-morro-bay_13.jpg
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sea-otter-bay_11.jpg
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sea_otter_with_injured_nose.JPG
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Four_sea_otters.JPG
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sea_otter_cropped.jpg
Related to this placement is the fact that I will be giving a class on
how to popularize your images at Flickr and Wikipedia and Wikimedia at
the Morro Photo Expo morrophoto.com/ on Sat. Oct. 24, 2009 2:00 - 3:30PM.
This class was just recently added because registrations are exceeding
expectations - if you have already signed up for the expo morrophoto.com/schedule.shtml and want to attend this class morrophoto.com/a-flickr.shtml you can contact Dawn Beattie Dawn_Beattie[@}charter.net and ask to be
added).
Flickr: A Radical New Social Networking Paradigm for Photo Sharing
with Mike Baird
Why share? "A photo taken but not shared might just as well have
never been taken." Learning from others. Giving versus getting in
a social networking context. Preserving your Intellectual Property
rights (IP), copyrights. Creative Commons licensing. Getting your
photos recognized, featured, popularized. Understanding the
proprietary Flickr measure of "Interestingness." Using
Groups and Pools. Getting and giving critique. Netiquette - how to be
a good Flickr citizen. Cloud computing trend: processing, storing, and
distributing your digital photos entirely online and independent of
any personal computer. Photographer's rights to take and use photos.
Perpetual image hosting - Flickr promises to never erase an image!
What does that mean in terms of your legacy?
Photographer Michael "Mike" L. Baird is an avid and some say
addicted Flickr user, having migrated most of his Internet photo
presentation sites (bairdphotos.com, stealthispicture.com,
digitalchocolate.org, BirdsOfMorroBay.com...) onto Flickr, which you
can find via flickr.bairdphotos.com. Mike wants to infect you with his
same interest. At Flickr, Mike hosts about 5000 Morro Bay-related
images which have been viewed over two million times, averaging 4000
views a day. His "most interesting" images have each
garnered 20,000 views and 400 comments, and appear in 60 groups, and
some are linked to or purposed with attribution from up to 200
different external sites. Because of Flickr and the related Creative
Commons revolution, hundreds of his images have now been used in
educational settings including State Park, National Marine Sanctuary,
National Estuary Program, etc. kiosks and displays, books, pamphlets,
interpretive signs, rescue cards, Coast Guard murals, birding resource
sites, etc.
In this presentation Mike hopes to get you excited about the
possibility of projecting your photography further into the digital
universe. Many of us do not realize it, but our legacy may well be
represented by only those bits we leave behind on the Internet. In 500
years, what will Google and Flickr say about you?
Used in this Mother Jones article
m.motherjones.com/blue-marble/2012/02/how-exxon-valdez-oi...
Gdnght1, dave and rose, and 30 other people added this photo to their favorites.
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GIGEO 57 months ago | reply
Mike this is fabulous. Great to have a 600. the best.......THIS COULD BE A WINNER IN ANY CONTEST.
grandmasandy+chuck 57 months ago | reply
Mike, I am so glad that you can get shots like these so that the rest of us can enjoy them. Sweet.
patmans 57 months ago | reply
wow great shot! Very cute too ...
cheryl strahl 57 months ago | reply
grandma.sandy said it all! This is awesome.......
snakehandler [deleted] 57 months ago | reply
Hey Mike! Love the photograph!
So it is breeding season for the otter's?
elena.bertolini 56 months ago | reply
This photo made me SMILE
www.flickr.com/groups/photosmiles/
shirleystroup 56 months ago | reply
Yes, I agree with GrandmaSandy, also - this is so sweet. Thanks, Mike.
jkirkhart35 56 months ago | reply
Wow, You really put this one in a lot of groups, and rightfully so. Neat how the mom is taking care of the pup. This really shows the whitish face of the mom and the darker colored face of the put with such excellent hair detail. Talk about splitting hairs! Congratulations, and well deserved.
ChuckThePhotographer 56 months ago | reply
A really lovely family moment, captured for posterity. Nice work Mike, as usual.
hollyandsofia 53 months ago | reply
such a sweet photo. I love it.
We would love for you to add your sea otter picture to our group.
Love Sea Otters
MiSs MePhIsToPhELeS [deleted] 51 months ago | reply
your pictures are beautiful, amazing!
Lilest Duncan 51 months ago | reply
AW! Very cute. I have never seen one with a baby before. I have only ever seen adults.
Here is mine.
with the sound of music 51 months ago | reply
So enchanting...
howcheng 48 months ago | reply
Wikipedia Picture of the day for July 28, 2009.
mikebaird 48 months ago | reply
howcheng Howard Cheng, Thanks very much for making my Otter and Pup image here be a Wikipedia Picture of the Day!! I'm totally honored! You said:
This image is honored as Wikipdia Picture of the Day 28 July 2009
Steve Corey 47 months ago | reply
Congratulations Mike. So glad to see your expertise recognized. (as it should be)
Chris, 47 months ago | reply
Great picture. Well done.
EncyclopediaOfLife 20 months ago | reply
Encyclopedia of Life curator Jennifer Hammock has trusted your image on the EOL site
Claes_C 5 months ago | reply
Thanks Mike for letting us use your picture in our web-based course at the Karolinska Institute, Solna, Sweden.
Claes Carnheim PhD
mikebaird 5 months ago | reply
Thanks for the Creative Commons use note
www.flickr.com/photos/mikebaird/2979351573/comment7215763...