About Inlinepics.com

We come in peace, take us to your leader. Aspirations of world domination aside, I'm just a computer nerd with a digital camera and a girlfriend who likes to race inline marathons.
After several years, I finally bought myself a pair of skates; but judging from the first couple of attempts I think I have a way to go before I start doing crazy things like marathons. This means that I get to be a cheerleader (without the pom-poms and skirt, you don't want that). Bringing my camera along seemed like a great idea, that way my better half could have some awesome pictures to show for her troubles, without paying an outrageous price to get them from the action sports pros.

Not wanting to end up with some crumby snapshot, I started playing around, practicing to find that perfect shot. What better to practice on than the skaters whizzing by me in droves. So I end up with a ton of pictures that I have no real reason to keep. This gets the gears turning and I realize, "I bet that there are a bunch of people in these pictures who would love to have them." So I put the entire collection on the Internet, dropped a few notes that there are pictures to be had, and watched my web server come under attack by the masses; I guess demand was higher than I thought.

While inlinepics.com has gone through a number of revisions, the purpose has remained the same. To provide inline skaters with memories at no cost to them. I am not trying to put the professionals out of business; they are far more talented than I am, they have better access, equipment, publicity, and they are going to get better shots than I do. I don't make a dime from this website; I think of it as a hobby.

Frequently Asked Questions

Ok, so maybe not all of these have been asked frequently. Maybe I just want to head of some of them and give you some information.

Are all the photos on the site freely available?

Yes, and they always will be.

Can I get the full size version of a particular file?

Yes, either contact me (see below) or add inlinepics.com as a contact in Flickr (then you can access all of the originals).

Can I use/license your photos for my team website or some other use?

I would be honored. I use a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike Creative Commons license for all of my inlinepics.com photos. This means you can reuse my photos for non-commerical purposes provided you give me cred (attribution in a photo caption is sufficient) and license any derivative works with the same licence. I also appreciate when you let me know where you are using my work, shoot me an email! I am not opposed to my photos being used in commercial works, but you must contact me for approval.

I want to contribute! What do I do?

I welcome all contributors to inlinepics.com! There are a couple of ways your contributions can be added to the site. If you send me your photos (contact me for details) I can upload them to the inlinepics.com flickr account. Otherwise, if you prefer to upload them to your own account on flickr (or the photo gallery of your choice), I would be happy to link to your site from the www.inlinepics.com homepage. With inlinepics.com, you retain complete control over your contributions; meaning that if you have a change of heart in the future and do not want your photos shown/linked here, I will remove them, no questions asked. My only stipulation is that you may not use contributions to the site for monetary gain. If you want to sell your photos, please post them elsewhere.

I love your site, can I contribute financially?

As crazy as it sounds, no. I run this site as a hobby. I do not want any of the headaches that come with operating a for-profit website. That said, if you see me at a marathon, I would love a beer!

I have an idea for the site, I want to contribute, I want to complain, I have some other question, who do I contact?

Contact Tom

Migrating old posts

I am migrating the posts from the old website to the blog. Some of the links in the old entries will probably break during the transition and I will forget to fix them. If you notice a broken link, please let me know!

Inlinepics.com is moving

Welcome to the new inlinepics.com blog. This blog will eventually replace the current www.inlinepics.com website that I started nearly two years ago.

There are a number of reasons for this move, but they all basically boil down to two reasons; I am lazy and cheap. The current CMS that I am using to publish the frontpage is a big complex monster that is complete overkill for my little site. It has lots of functionality behind the scenes that I don't use and really just confuses me because I don't use it frequently enough. The CMS software also needs to be updated occasionally, and while it's not a hard process; it never really gets done. I spend my day working on technology, and coming home to work on it some more is usually about the last thing that I want to do.

I also would like to migrate away from my current hosting company. Nothing against the host, they have actually been very good to me. I just don't like paying the bill. Granted I don't pay very much, but a free blog combined with a flickr pro account is a heck of a lot cheaper.

I know that this switch will probably break some things on the web, including links to content pages I created for previous races; but for a web site that serves only as a hobby for me, I'm not going to lose too much sleep. I will do my best to move all of the old pictures from the old site to the new site, those are what really matter anyways.