Wednesday, June 29, 2011

More pretty pictures

Finally, the books I ordered from Poland have started to arrive.  Great stuff on the history of artillery and some books for future projects, but it also included post cards I can use as illustrations.  Interesting thing about using pictures - if there are paintings over a certain age they are public domain, but you can't use a photo of say a rifle without permission of the photographer.  All makes sense, but you don't appreciate some of the nuances until you get into it.  I've also had a devil of a time with illustrations with some books from the communist era - many of the publishers don't exist and the rights of some pictures have either lapsed or trying to track down the artists leads to blind alleys.  Luckily I have a good deal of great pictures and artifacts I've collected here and there that suddenly fit together on this project.

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