San Jose Sharks’ Dan Boyle Uses My Photo On His Web-Site

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How about that as a way to start your Saturday?

If you know me a little bit, you’ll know that I am a huge hockey fan. I grew up in Russia and this is a sport I played on my high school team. I’m also a big soccer fan, but since moving to US, my interest in hockey took over. Ever since I learned I’ll be moving to San Jose I became a big San Jose Sharks fan. I’m not yet a season ticket holder, but I attend 20-30 games a year. I am also one of the bloggers for Fear the Fin, one of the biggest Sharks blogs out there.

This morning I was visiting the official web-site of Dan Boyle, who plays for the Sharks and is one of the top 3 offensive defensemen in the game. He’s a Stanley Cup winner and a recent Olympic champion. To put it simply – I’m a big fan of Dan Boyle. What do I see? As a background for his site, he’s using one of the photos that I took of him back in September. His web-site designer likely pulled it off Dan Boyle’s Wikipedia page, where I posted the photo a while back, and it is available for non-commercial use under the Creative Commons license.

More than anything, I’m flattered that one of my favorite players is using one of my photos of him on his site. That’s a beauty of the Creative Commons license and sometimes it does pay off to bring a camera to the game with me.

As a sidenote, the picture was taken during a pre-season game against Anaheim Ducks. Boyle was voted one of the stars of the game and as a tradition, signed a hockey stick and gave it away to someone in the audience. This time he actually gave it to my son, since we were in a front row. A memorable game all around. Oh eyes, we also won that game 7-1.