5 days later, the Whittier Fire still hangs like a specter above Goleta, CA. So while we watch the fire from our bedroom window, something cool happened.

I tweeted out photos of the fire and as a result my photos of the fire got re-tweeted by Cal Fire, shared by Reuters and then picked up by many major news agencies.

• Reuters
• NBC
• Anchorage Daily News
• Mother Jones
• Hindustan Times
• Huffington Post
• NY Daily News
• Chiemgau 24

Given the wide spread use, you would think someone would have asked for my consent. Unfortunately what ended up happening is that CalFire re-tweeted my image and someone at Reuters thought it came from CalFire itself so they never contacted me. In fact they initially didn't even credit me. I had to reach out to them to correct this. Everyone else just used the Reuters image through presumably some kind of image sharing agreement.

At least my work got views I guess.