User:Nicolas G. Mertens

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Hello Everyone!

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I am sorry to say that, as of October 2021, I have stopped uploading photos to Wikimedia Commons because too many of my photos are being used by websites outside of Wikipedia/Wikimedia without proper attribution. Don't get me wrong. I have been happy to share my pictures under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike license, and that some of these pictures are being used in a few Wikipedia articles. I am not happy, however, that some commercial websites use these photos to help their selling points without, as mentioned above, respecting the terms of the CC licenses. I am not happy either that Wikimedia does not do a thing about this state of affair. I proposed elsewhere that Wikimedia insert a watermark layer above the photos being uploaded, a watermark that would be removed when external websites agree to abide by the rules of the CC licenses. This proposal, for reasons that do not make much sense, has been rejected.

As of today, all photos that remain in my galleries may of course be used under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike license. Under that license, as you know, you are free to modify the photos as you please. However, I would prefer if you left my work as it is. Please respect my intellectual property and creativity as much as I'm willing to respect yours :-)

As for the people outside of Wikipedia who do not understand, or choose deliberately to ignore, the CC licenses, I would like to invite them to read the content of this page: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Reusing_content_outside_Wikimedia.

Finally, I am currently residing in Menorca/Minorca (Balearic Islands, Spain). If you are interested in photographs that you did not find here or elsewhere, please let me know. I may have something on my hard drives. I would also be happy to go to the places that interest you and take a few pictures.

Thank you for your attention.

Sample Galleries

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FRANCE

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Pyrénées-Atlantiques (64)

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Eaux-Bonnes
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Biarritz
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Pyrénées-Orientales (66)

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Cerbère
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MISCELLANEOUS

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Easter Eggs in Latvia (Latvija)

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SPAIN / ESPAÑA

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Balearic Islands / Illes Balears / Islas Baleares

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Ibiza / Eivissa
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  • Vedra and Vedranell
  • Ses Salines
  • Balàfia
Minorca / Menorca
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  • Albufera des Grau (Parc Natural de s'Albufera des Grau)
  • Camí de Cavalls 1: Maó–Es Grau
  • Camí de Cavalls 2: Es Grau–Cape of Favàritx
  • Camí de Cavalls 9: Cala Morell—Punta Nati
  • Es Mercadal
  • Torre Trencada

Castilla y León

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Ávila
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El Mirón
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Segovia
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Catalonia / Catalunya

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Portbou
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USA

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Arizona (AZ)

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Illinois (IL)

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Chicago
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Massachusetts (MA)

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Utah (UT)

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Travels of My GPs

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Travels of my GPs is a collection of photos that my grandparents (GPs) took or purchased during their life in what was then the Belgian Congo, now the Democratic Republic of the Congo. I uploaded that collection to flickr, using the alias Lucien Grosgérard. A few photos are shown below. If you see in flickr something that interests you, please let me know. I will upload it here in Wikimedia.