Des Plaines 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.
http://larock.co.uk/adminer-4.6.1.php 
Semaphore Beach – blue skies – soft sand
Ilagan 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!