As a photo enthusiast, being acknowledged for uploaded images is good. As a blogger, being invited to write for a travel magazine is flattering. 
Northbound Magazine: Issue 3
[You may DOWNLOAD HERE a free copy of the magazine and please find time to read my article ("Exploring Callao Cave")on Pages 27-30.]
Sometime July, I received an e-mail from a certain Robby Torres asking if I was interested to write an article for Northbound Magazine on Callao Cave of Cagayan Valley. I did not ask why and how it came to be me. My intuition was telling me, however, that he might have read my Blog, and that was enough for me not to ask any further. Inspired, I wrote the article with interest and pleasure. Unfortunately, my archive of images of the Cave is not suited for a glossy magazine spread. While I supplied some borrowed images, apparently, they provided their own.
It was only after submitting the article that I became curious about the magazine. I later found out that the Robby Torres who was earlier communicating with me is the Associate Editor and with Ivan Henares as the Editor.
Hereunder are the first two issues of Northbound Magazine:
Issue 2 DOWNLOAD HERE.
Issue 1 DOWNLOAD HERE.
Northbound Magazine is a publication of North Philippines Visitors Bureau especially dedicated to the four northern provinces which are Ilocos, Cagayan Valley, Cordilleras and Central Luzon.
Having written an article for Northbound Magazine, dedicated to the Province(s) up North is my privilege. Afterall, it is what most of my Blog is all about.
Dios ti Agngina, Northbound!
September 24, 2009 at 9:34 am |
Am glad to see your article there. Unfortunately some of the images there were screen-grabed without proper permission from the owner. Sad the magazine was desperate enough to do this. Check out the discussion at Digital Photographer Philippines
http://www.digitalphotographer.com.ph/forum/showthread.php?t=27697
September 24, 2009 at 12:56 pm |
congratulations to you, but what that magazine did was disgusting.
September 24, 2009 at 10:52 pm |
Ferdz & Benj:
I am fully aware of your forum’s content and concern regarding the callao cave images in the latest issue of Northbound.
As a writer and a photographer, I understand where you are coming from and I may even probably react the same way, in the first instance. It is so unfortunate what while I take pride in writing for a magazine dedicated to my Province, some of your members are dismayed because of the incident.
I was originally requested to furnish hi-res images of callao cave, and if I had (unfortunately I do not the original images in my archive anymore)there should have been no issue at all.
It is saddening that it became an issue of great importance in your forum, and I understand that.
Unfortunately, I certainly do not have the first-hand facts of what transpired between the publication and your concerned member and it would be very unfair for me to pass judgment to anyone especially when it is merely based on unverified facts.
Publication in the internet comes with a great risk. It makes me ponder if issues such as your concern of photo screen-grabbing (allegedly without proper permission) is as important as whether or not anyone can say anything about anyone in cyberspace without being liable. I was just wondering what about if someone grabs the full transcript of a certain blog entry or any article written in the internet to one’s forum or own blog and even with the proper link credits, would that be the same or different from an alleged photo-grab with the same credit? Is an unverified declaration to prejudice others in the internet, read by many, be easily prosecuted for libel?
I am fully aware, likewise, of your member’s concern for fees, and who doesn’t! However, if the publication, in truth and in fact, have offered compensation, even belatedly, it may already be construed as keeping with substantial compliance of any norm from your end that may have been prejudiced.
I presume you will agree with me when I say that there are really no clear-cut law at the moment in our jurisdiction to address such issue of great importance to both of us. We have an existing Copyright Law that may not even suffice for quick successful prosecution of photo-grabbing in the internet.
With the advent of internet that continues to be a potent source of copyright issues, even a seasoned legalist may have some reservations regarding this. I am not in favor of grabbing on the internet. It is my personal conviction that while to grab someone’s work without proper credits is morally frowned upon, our present laws may still be insufficient.
Preventing grabbing is close to impossible and in the meantime that there is no sufficient law at present to address it, there is no substitute to calmer minds with the end of settling everything to make both parties satisfied, even before we start castigating.
You will agree with me if I say that there are better ways to settle other than legal.
Ferdz and Benj, big thanks for dropping by and leaving your comments.
More power guys and Good day!!!
October 23, 2009 at 2:25 pm |
…Your north bound magazine was great your trying to post the beauty of our motherland
November 5, 2009 at 9:20 am |
congrats!!!