Terri Webster Schrandt

A Fun Surprise from Stevie Turner

Friday Showcase – 6th October

I was surprised and delighted that Stevie Turner featured my short book Better Blogging with Photography on her Friday Showcase last week!

I wrote the book in 2016 to help bloggers rethink how to use images in their blog posts without breaking the law. Like many new bloggers, I grabbed Google images with reckless abandon, then realized I might be infringing on strict copyright laws. Yes indeed.

For myself, I learned more about photography once cell phone cameras became much better and revisited my love for art and photography from my college days.

I’ve almost forgotten about this book and have thought of giving it away. I would like to update the book with new information, but I’m not very good at this kind of thing. I’m open to ideas you all might have on how to update an Amazon e-book.

For now, you can spend less than a dollar on this Amazon Kindle e-book and find some good takeaways you can use for your blogging journey today.

Thanks for reading and many thanks to Stevie Turner for sharing my book.

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  3. That was a nice post promoting you and your book Terri. I began my blog not using any photos or one photo for two years until I began taking my own photos in 2015. I was using a stock photo service called “Dollar Photo” which had a wonderful array of pics and graphics for my posts. I did not know about Creative Commons or free photos or I would not have made “Dollar Photo” rich!

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    • Thanks, Linda. I was already dabbling in photography with my phone and using what I could for my blog in 2014. When I needed a pic of workers or food for a post, I stole it off Google.

      The book started with the realization I either needed to take my own or find a way to get free ones. I also learned that even when you pay for images of people, those can be suspect if the person discovered their image being used. I see this a lot in Canva where you pay a small fee to use. Always best to get permission for faces or don’t use them. Especially minors. I worked for parks and rec and we had to get written permission to use images in our marketing of people and children. That’s a subject I want to illuminate more in my book upgrade. Getty Images are the worst because they will sue the pants off anyone who uses them. Scary stuff!

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      • That’s interesting Terri. I researched Dollar Photo before I went with them to ensure they were legitimate. They were bought out by Adobe and the price was going up for their stock images, so I no longer used them, but kept the e-mails where I paid the fee to use their photos. After that I bought a digital compact camera in 2015 or I use Pixabay on occasion. I became friendly with a Michigan photographer whose images were on Pixabay and I used them for various holidays. I sent her a post each time I used a photo(s) so she could see how I used it. She encouraged me to take my own pics to make my posts more meaningful. Jill Wellington was a TV news anchor who retired and her husband bought her a DSLR as a retirement present. She started a blog and started an Instagram account with her own photos and is now a portrait photographer.

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  4. You’re right, Terri. It’s so easy to grab an image to use it for our book. When I published my poetry book, I used all of my own photos except one that had copyright. When I first published it, KDP didn’t catch it. When I uploaded a new file, they informed me they couldn’t publish my book without giving me any specifics. I called to talk to them. The person was able to point out what it was. So I found a free photo to replace it.

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  5. Congratulations, Terri. To update a manuscript, you just re-write whatever you want, then go to Amazon and, in your bookshelf, press edit details. Then upload the revised manuscript – it replaces the old one.

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