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Date: 12/19/2022
WESTHAMPTON – This year, the town’s administrative assistant, Douglas Finn, wants to document more in the annual report than the usual facts and figures about the previous year. He put out a call for images for the publication, an effort to catch more of residents’ day-to-day experience.
“The annual town report has always documented the what and when of the year,” Finn wrote in an email, “reports from committees, lists of facts and figures and records of votes.”
According to the town website, the hope is to make this report as illustrative and color-filled as possible. Residents are invited to contribute photos and images not only of town events, but also shots of orchards and fields, flowers and wildlife, parades, holidays, sunsets and special occasions.
Pictures of holiday celebrations would be especially welcome. Finn needs an image for the cover, but also images for use throughout the report.
Photos must be of good quality and properly focused. Those who submit should have sole creative rights to the image, which means only those someone has personally captured. Photographers will have to grant permission to the town for their use.
Residents should send images by email. The email must include the following statement granting the town fair use of the image: “I am submitting a photo attached to this email for inclusion in the Annual Report for the Town of Westhampton. This photo is solely my work, and I grant the town of Westhampton full permission for its use for this purpose under a ‘Creative Commons 4.0 BY-NC-ND’ license.”
Shots should feature a Westhampton resident, activity or location. Acceptable subjects include public gatherings, meetings and events, town-owned and other historic buildings, and people celebrating outdoors.
Unacceptable subjects include shots predominantly of a piece of artwork. Art as a background element is fine, according to the website. Also not usable are images of events closed to the public or that charged for admission. Photos of school events, on school grounds, can only be submitted by school officials.
Send emails, with images attached, to administration@westhamptonma.org. Those submitting should include their full name, address (including zip code) and phone number.
“By including photos, taken by town residents, of public events, people, places and scenes,” Finn wrote, “we hope to also preserve the who, where and why of a year in the life in Westhampton, which may be of value to our collective posterity.”