Lives of Photographs, 50

It's kind of weird knowing via Flickr Stats that someone has used Google Translate to render the page for this photo and caption of Burmese Karen Paduang girls into Polish (and that my Flickr ID translates as 'rosnąco'). And at this point I begin to wonder if the photo will soon be appearing without credit or payment in something like a Polish guide book to Thailand or a magazine article... that kind of theft happens more often than you might imagine, and it's virtually impossible to trace unless you're lucky/unlucky enough to run into the end result by accident, as recently happened to a photographer friend in Malaysia. Maybe it's time to start using Flickr's spaceball gif as online image protection.