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Tangentsthis image has been lifted from ..July 19, 2011In an attempt to deal with some persistent plagiarism and reposting of my work on other sites, I’ve [temporarily] disabled hot-linking of images from my site. If this somehow affects your viewing of the images in the various articles, please let me know here via a comment, so that I may have a clearer idea of the implications of that. Sorry if this has inadvertently affected anyone.
Dino Direct – image theft and blatant misrepresentationFebruary 24, 2011Dino Direct – image theft and blatant misrepresentation
Someone let me know today, Feb 24, that they had discovered some of my images on the website of Dino Direct. Apparently it is a company that distributes all kinds of electronic goods, including video lights. Dino Direct took it upon themselves to appropriate three of my images; crop out my logo; and add their own logo. Blatant theft of my images. But worst still, they are misrepresenting themselves with those images …
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quintessentially inappropriateMarch 1, 2009Some sayings in photography are thrown out there so often that they’ve achieved a life of their own, and become truisms that are summarily accepted and then perpetuated. Actually, I was going to name this post clichés in photography, but that would imply visual clichés. But tastes differ too widely, and I wouldn’t want to be the Style Police and dictate to other photographers which subjects and approaches are deemed cool. Besides, I think the world could always use more photos of pretty girls sitting on train tracks. So here they are – things that make me grind my teeth: 1. ”you have to know the rules to break the rules” And here’s why … (more…)
i will like to Make an enquiryJuly 15, 2008Photographers are more and more becoming the target for scammers and con artists. The latest trick for them is to book the photographer for a date, and then pay via bank guaranteed check or via credit card. The scam comes into play in that they over-pay, and then ask for a refund of that portion of the money. The bank guaranteed check of course is fake, or the credit card they used is stolen. And the end result is that the photographer who is naive enough to fall for this, is out of pocket by whatever amount they refunded to the scammers. Here’s an example of an email I received last week:
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Protected: you know you’ve arrived when …September 1, 2007
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