In light of recent discoveries, I've been considering adding personal watermarks to my future shots. I'm usually against this as I feel they often times take away from the shot but I think it's becoming something of a necessity.
As you may have seen in Txschmidts thread, one of his shots was stolen/miscredited by an Instagram account. Upon closer inspection, I found that one of my shots had also been used without my consent nor had any credit been given to me. The user even went as far as to put his own watermark on the image:

I'm open to having people share my work without contacting me but when they either take the credit for themselves or don't credit me for the shot at all, then we've got a problem.
After discovering this, I decided to see if I could find any other shots of mine that had been misused. I then stumbled across these:
Forzatography.Tumblr.com &
Xbox.Tumblr.comOn the official Xbox Tumblr page, I came across one of my shots of the Pagani Huayra that had been reblogged by the account.
That's great and all but I don't have a Tumblr account, so I dug a little deeper.
Apparently, someone using the account "Forzatography" on Tumblr has been posting numerous shots of mine as well as a couple others from the forums without any notice nor any credit given to us.
What I'm trying to get at is that if you want to share/post/use any of my work, feel free to do so,
SO LONG AS YOU GIVE THE PROPER CREDIT FOR THE IMAGEI know there's not a lot we can do about people misusing/miscrediting our work online but I just needed to vent a little after making these discoveries as well as spread awareness about this growing problem.
Thank you for your time. Normal updates will resume shortly.
Edited by user Tuesday, August 4, 2015 3:39:01 PM(UTC)
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