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Copyright and Image Use

Last updated: July 2026

All images on this site are the copyrighted work of John Corney, Irvine, California, unless otherwise noted, whether or not a copyright notice appears on a specific image. This includes photographs, digital artwork, AI-assisted artwork, and any painterly or other reworkings of my source photographs. Copyright applies from the moment of creation and does not require any formal registration to be enforceable.

What You Can Do

You are welcome to:

  • View my work on this blog and share links to specific posts.
  • Share posts on social media using the platform's own share tools (which typically show a preview image linking back to the original post).
  • Buy prints and products featuring my work from my Redbubble shop, KornKob Art. Anything not currently on Redbubble may still be available — please ask.
  • Quote briefly from my written posts for review, commentary, or educational purposes, provided you credit me and link back to the original.

What Requires Permission

Please contact me before you:

  • Reproduce, print, or distribute my images in any physical or digital form beyond personal viewing on this site.
  • Use my images or artwork in commercial projects — including but not limited to book covers, marketing materials, product packaging, editorial illustrations, websites, or any promotional context.
  • Modify or create derivative works based on my images.
  • Include my images in publications, presentations, or exhibitions, including educational and non-profit contexts.
  • Repost my images to other websites or social media platforms as your own upload (linking back is fine; re-uploading is not).

Most reasonable licensing requests are welcomed. I'm generally flexible on non-commercial and educational uses when I'm asked in advance and appropriate credit is given.

A Note on AI Training

My work is available for use in training AI models — both commercial and research systems — provided that the resulting model does not misrepresent my work as its own creation or attribute it to another artist. I use AI as a creative collaborator in my own practice and consider it a natural evolution of the digital toolkit; it would sit uncomfortably with me to restrict others from doing the same. All I ask is that if my work informs a model, the model doesn't produce output that falsely claims to be by another human artist.

Licensing

If you would like to license one of my images for a specific use — commercial, editorial, educational, or otherwise — please get in touch through the contact form on my About page. Please include:

  • Which specific image you'd like to license (a link to the blog post or Redbubble listing helps).
  • How you'd like to use the image (what will it appear in, how will it be distributed, for how long).
  • Whether this is commercial or non-commercial use.

I'll respond with licensing terms and pricing tailored to the specific use.

If You Believe Your Work Appears Here in Error

I take care to use only my own photographs and artwork on this blog, and to properly attribute any third-party content (for example, historical works cited in art-history posts). If you believe your copyrighted material appears on this site without proper permission or attribution, please contact me and I will address the concern promptly.

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Samoan Youth

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This young man was preparing with his friends for his moment of fame on the stage at the Samoan Village at the Polynesian dance festival called Pasifika in Auckland in March this year. Samoan Youth Canon EOS 20D 1/30sec at f/20 ISO 200 Canon 70-300mm lens at 300mm More photographs from the same Pasifika Festival day can be found in my new post, Faces of Pasifika 2007 — A Day at Auckland's Pacific Festival .
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Cool Granny Has Taken Up Flying — The Little Old Lady Collection Grows Again

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Cool Granny in Her Biplane — © John Corney 2026 Our cool granny is back, and she has done something the family has been quietly worried about for a few months now. She has taken up flying. A Brief Recap for New Readers If you're new to the series: she first appeared in a beautifully kept yellow Austin A35 on the corner of Queen Street and K Road in Auckland , waving cheerfully out the driver's window as she went past. That piece was, in its quiet way, a tribute to my own mother, who in her fifties bought her own motor scooter in Whanganui and never looked back — and to every older woman who has ever decided it was finally her turn. Then she showed up in a pink-and-yellow flame-painted monster truck, waving out the driver's window in exactly the same spirit, but with rather larger tyres. Same silver hair, same coral scarf, same oversized sunglasses. Same little red heart pa...
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Cool Granny in Her Austin A35 — © John Corney 2026 This one has a real backstory, and I'd like to tell it properly. An Auckland Sighting On one of my annual visits home to New Zealand, I was walking through central Auckland — at the corner of Queen Street and Karangahape Road (K Road, as everyone calls it) — when a small yellow car went past me and stopped me mid-stride. It was a beautifully kept Austin A35, one of the little British runabouts that were everywhere in New Zealand when I was growing up in the fifties and sixties. Driving it was a woman of a certain age with the confident bearing of someone who had been driving that same car, or one like it, for decades. She looked entirely at home behind the wheel. She belonged to the car and the car belonged to her, and neither of them was in any hurry to change. If you know Auckland, that particular corner will register: Queen Stree...
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