For some reason Flickr - they should know better as good coders - have decided to be cute and try to prevent downloading of some images. Photographers probably requested the feature so much that Flickr went against their better judgement and coded this hack. We get this kind of silly request from clients all the time: 'I want a website where no one can copy any of my content ever.'
If you don't want people to be able to copy your content, don't put it on the internet, people.
Flickr, given that they have some good coders working for them, came up with an anti-download hack a little bit better than the standard no save on right click which is easily defeated by just pressing the spacebar or disabling javascript.
Whether you want to download your own or someone else’s Flickr photos onto your local machine, you can use Pictor Downloader. Pictor is a smart desktop downloader for Flickr that helps you download your own photos/videos as well as publicly shared. Backup albums in one click. Download entire albums.Click once, download all pictures and videos of an album into a directory. Each time you backup an album, downloadair creates a directory with all photos and videos downloaded from Flickr.
The Flickr trick is CSS based and consists of a div which carries the style classes 'facade-of-protection' and a div called 'spaceball'. Basically Flickr is putting the image behind an empty div so you can't get at it with your mouse to save it.
In this case, 'Disable Javascript' won't get you access to the image. It's being hidden by CSS. On the other hand, 'Disable Styles' i.e. CSS will.
In Safari, if you enable the 'Show Develop Menu in Menu Bar' option in advanced settings you will get a nice new menu. Here's where to enable 'Show Develop Menu in Menu Bar':
Safari Advanced Options Enable Developer Menu
And here's what the Develop menu offers: an option to Disable Styles.
Safari Developer Menu with Disable Styles option
Here's how a Flickr protected large image page might look like before:
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Flickr protected image before disable style
(no lightbox effect on these screenshots as this image belongs
to David Pogue and is only used as an illustration)
And here is what a right click on the image above would yield: no way to save, view or download the image.
Flickr right click options before disable styles in Safari
If you select 'Disable Styles' and then open the Flickr address in a new window, the Flickr page should now look like this:
Flickr protected image after disable style
(no lightbox effect on these screenshots as this image belongs
to David Pogue and is only used as an illustration)
Now you just have to move your mouse over the image and right click and you can download the image or copy it or open it in a new tab:
right click image options after disable styles
This technique also works in Firefox. First install the Web Developers Toolbar to get a way to easily disable styles. Then disable styles via shift-command S or via menu.
Firefox disable styles Web Developers Toolbar
After that you can view, copy or save the Flickr protected image.
Flickr right click options before disable styles in Safari
Keep in mind that being able to save an image does not change the situation in terms of copyright. Copyright remains with the photographer or image owner.
In my case, I just wanted to have a look at Pogue's EXIF for his low light image from his Canon S95 demo folder, linked to from his 'Love Letter to a Camera'.
Unfortunately, when opened up in Preview, these versions do not contain any EXIF info. (David, if you ever do find this how to, I'd still really like to see that EXIF: I'm guessing the lens is at about at 2.5 aperture, the ISO is 400 and the length of exposure is about 1/30 second.)
As it took a little bit too long to figure this out (disabling the Flickr download disable), I want to make sure other people don't have to waste their time to be able to save Flickr photos.
Remember: if you don't want people to look at, share or save your work, there's a much simpler technical solution. Just don't put it on the internet.
This post is an alternative method to the relatively painful AdBlock Flickr technique from August this year. Thanks to Dave for the description of how Flickr's image hiding works. If you really want to download a lot of Flickr images often, the AdBlock technique might be worth the trouble.
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I am back from my 2 days trip. I am just 2 days away and I feel like I missed so much. Just to know that I can't see what my flickr contacts are going to upload makes me sick :D
So I got this idea on my trip. On the way to the motel I saw so many fields. And I always wanted to do something like this. So here it is :D
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This picture was taken at Bunesfjorden on the Lofoten Islands in Norway. It was rainy and windy, just how you would imagine the weather in Northern Norway, uncomfortable but moody. My dog started to chase seagulls and I took this opportunity to take this picture.
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Diary of travel in the multiverse, I have been on the planet GOR for some months, I managed to escape from my captors by killing the master, the women of this planet are weak in mind and body, I hope I can find a way to leave this planet as soon as possible. www.flickr.com/photos/bvalmont/17237251665/in/album-72157...www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVFsTELFW8o
Took this shot during sea trial of our new ships lifeboat./
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We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another.
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A Kazakh rider & his horses roaming freely on the beautiful Keerkante grassland, with majestic Tian Shan mountain in the background. Shot in Zhaosu, Xinjiang province of China.
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'I know you may not want to see me
On your way down from the clouds
Would you hear me if I told you
That my heart is with you now
She's only happy in the sun
She's only happy in the sun
Did you find what you were after?
The pain and the laughter brought you to your knees
But if the sun sets you free, sets you free
You'll be free indeed, Indeed
...
Every time I hear you laughing, I hear you laughing
It makes me cry
Like the story of life, of your life
Is hello, goodbye
...
Shes only happy in the sun........'
Now I feel really free from my past and its ghosts. I think I never felt that good, with myself and with someone else. Like if everything was an evidence. My biggest fears are only bad memories now. I am confident and thankful regarding life.
I hope you all had an amazing week end, as much as mine :)
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Exposure0.003 sec (1/320)
Aperturef/14.0
Focal Length17 mm
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Loving this time of year....
free of schedules and rush, rush, rush
staying outside until its dark
swimsuits everyday
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popsicles before dinner
being barefoot is a must
the golden sunlight
beauty all around
I *heart* summer
Whispering in his ear
My magic potion for love
Telling him I’m sincere
And that there’s nothing too good for us
But I want to be free, free, free
And I just got to be me, be me
Teasing hands, all his might
Give our nights such mystery
Happiness all the time
Oh, and how that man pleases me
But I want to be free, free, free
And I just got to be me, be me
Feeling you close to me
Makes all my senses smile
Let’s not waste E
‘Cos I’ll only be here for a while
I’ve got to be free, free, free,
And I just got to be me, be me,
Be free, free, now baby
He seeketh Liberty, which is so dear, As knoweth he who life for her refuses.
(Dante Alighieri)
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A second image from the stunning Morning at Coogee Baths.
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Un gran momento durante mi paso por esta fantastica ciudad costera, donde
logré con un disparo certero capturar esta escena durante el vuelo de la bella
gaviota hacia la libertad, la cual muchos de nosotros deseariamos probar un
dia de nuestras vidas.
T e c n i c a :
Para asegurarme de congelar el sujeto, priorizé el obturador y subí la sensibilidad
a 400 ISO para lograr una velocidad lo bastante alta para no perder este momento.
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Credo che potrei andarmene a vivere con gli animali,
così placidi sono e dignitosi.
Io mi soffermo e li guardo a lungo e ancora li guardo.
Non sudano né lamentano la loro condizione,
non giacciono svegli nell’ombra a piangere i loro peccati,
non mi fanno venire la nausea discutendo dei loro doveri,
nessuno è insoddisfatto, nessuno impazzisce per la manìa
di possedere cose,
nessuno s’inginocchia dinanzi al suo simile,
né a coloro che vissero mille anni or sono,
nessuno di essi è rispettabile o infelice su tutta la terra.
( Walt Whitman )
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Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we have learned here. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and the acceptance of love back into our hearts.
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Watch the thoughts come and go without identifying with them in any way.
If you can resist the impulse to claim each and every thought as your own, you will come to a startling conclusion: you will discover that you are the consciousness in which the thoughts appear and disappear.
You will discover that this thing called mind only exists when thoughts are allowed to run free.
–Annamalai Swami
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'Free My Heart
Meshell Ndegeocello
The sun rises and the sun goes down and hastens back to the place
Where it rose that from thence it may rise again
Finding all things wearisome unsatisfied my
eyes not satisfied with Seeing, my ears unsatisfied with hearing
Wondering of that which is now that which has been and that which is to be
For my time on earth I pay dearly for the past
Confusion embraces my heart for to know
self is to forgive self my Sojourn of truth
Free my heart so my soul may fly
Free my mind of my worldly wants and desires
I look towards heaven with my arms open wide
Take my hand come and take my hand
Sadness fills my heart
Too weak to get by, slave to discontentment self-pity
I come forth from my mother's womb naked shall I return to the earth to go as I came
Taking nothing of this supposed worldly gain
Free my heart so my soul may fly
Free my mind of my worldly wants and desires
I look towards heaven with my arms open wide
Take my hand come and take my hand
Free my heart'
I want to feel free...
And, sometimes, I want to feel the restraint in your grip...
And if you understand correctly those times, and allow me both, I will never forget you.
Please don't make me choose just one.
I could never stay long enough on the shore; the tang of the untainted, fresh, and free sea air was like a cool, quieting thought. -Helen Keller 1880 - 1968
(Helen Adams Keller was an American author, political activist, and lecturer. She was the first deafblind person to earn a bachelor of arts degree.)
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These two shots are within my first attempts at freelensing. It's SO amazing. The closeness, the softness of the shot, I love everything about it! I might try some other stuff along these lines in the future. :)
And look at me posting at wee hours. I'm the biggest insomniac ever. :)