1. Linking to Flickr photographs is perfectly appropriate. It is done all the time. I’ve never before heard anyone suggest that a person should ask for permission before linking to photographs on a public web site. I expect that people will link to my Flickr photographs – in fact I encourage it.

2. Posting someone’s actual photographs without permission or otherwise using copyrighted photographs without permission is an entirely different matter. A photograph, unlike a link, is subject to copyright law. I would never appropriate your photograph and display it on my web site or use it in any other way without your permission.

3. I did not post your email because it didn’t seem necessary to post it to make my point. As I wrote above, you are welcome to post the full email if you would like. I’d be happy to post if for you if I can find it.

4. For the record, you banned me before I posted anything about your photograph anywhere other than in your comment thread at Flickr. I would have had no reason to post anywhere else if you had not deleted my comment in the place most make it. If you had simply replied in the forum and even set me straight where you thought I was wrong that probably would have been the end of it.

5. You are welcome to offer commentary on any of my Flickr photographs that you think may step over an ethical line or if you would like any more information about the techniques I used. I’ll do my best to respond respectfully and fully to your comments as I do to all comments left on my photographs.

Take care,

Dan

BTW, understanding how upset you are about this I have toned down some of my language in a couple of the posts above on this page – though I still stand by what I have written.