Balaruc-Les-Bains, France, August 17, 2006 - #1037 http://denisolivier.gallery.artlimited.net
The Watermark is not an advertising or an e-mail address. It will be added now because my photographs are stolen too many times. I'm sorry for those who can't see further, and thank you for your comprehension.
Well, maybe when you will see your photographs on another site pretending coming from another person and taken elsewhere, or edited in a folio book from a 800x800 pixels wide at 150 DPI (and yes this is enough for a 12 cm print) and unless someone said somewhere else "this makes me and my lawyer very happy", personaly we don't as attempting something to someone in another country is very difficult and a so sad action. I understand some people can't imagine this, but I'm fed up and I prefer a little Watermark against a 400x400 pixels wide picture. And I don't mind if someone copy me, the world is not mine, my ideas are surely poor already used ones, but this is another subject, I don't speak of creation there.
beautiful simple zen.. yeah hear what you say about your image being stolen.. relentless isn't it... just wait til you do a paid job for a multinational co who in spite of your efforts hand (read email) your images over to another body and how do ya get for it nothin... I ma afraid that eyah you put it up..someone will knock it off... its a thing I dont like about this site... at least they cant steal 'em from my site
Are you the first person to take a dock photo? If not, you stole the idea from someone else, no?
How about the tonality and minimalism of this seascape? Didn't you steal that from Hiroshi Sugimoto?
I can respect the fact that you want to protect your photos, but complaining about images being stolen on the web is pure silliness. Immitation is flattery and art is filled with theives, if you can't deal with that you shouldn't be an artist. The web is a public place, you are using it to advertise your skills as a photographer. If you put a picture/poster on a public street, it can be stolen, nobody cries "thief" when it happens.
Instead, try and give something back to the community from which you learned your skills, and reflect on the joy of an unmolested photo, the joy it gives others, and the joy it may give the photographers who came before you and who will come after you (ideas you didn't realize you copied, and ideas others will copy from your photos), we all have much to learn, and we all "steal" from others.
Your photos are beautiful, they deserve better. Just my 2ç.
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