And what happened to my copyright watermark? I know, it fell off. Accidentally.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nI didn’t find Debbie’s post until late in the evening so I decided to sleep on it and put off my decision about what, if anything, to do about it until the next day.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
![\"\"](\"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/my-photo-as-cover-photo-and-my-comment-ron-dudley.jpg\" "\\"my-photo-as-cover-photo-and-my-comment-ron-dudley\\"")
<\/p>\n
This is what I woke up to. It put me over the edge so yes, I made a biting comment on it.<\/p>\n
Sometime during the night Harry Ridgeway, moderator of North American Raptors, had made my stolen image the cover photo for North American Raptors. An honor in Debbie’s name. I don’t blame Harry or the folks who gave it positive comments. They had no way of knowing it was stolen.<\/p>\n
I suspect a reverse image search on other photos Debbie has posted might be… enlightening.<\/p>\n
Note to Debbie and other potential image thieves. It might be a good idea to peruse the membership list of groups you’re about to post a stolen image to, to make sure that the rightful owner of the photo isn’t a member of that group.<\/em><\/p>\nDuh…<\/em><\/p>\nRon<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
PS – When I got up this morning, moderator Harry Ridgeway had removed both of Debbie’s posts of my photo from the group, made my photo of the harrier the cover photo for North American Raptors in my name<\/span>, and removed Debbie from the group. Thanks, Harry.<\/em><\/p>\nSayonara Debbie.<\/em><\/p>\nLate Addendum at 5:50 AM on 2\/18\/24: If you plan on searching for additional stolen photos on Debbie’s timeline as some others have already done, better hurry. They’re being deleted fast. That’s where screenshots come in handy.<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
How blatant (and clueless) can these image thieves get? (3 photos including screen shots)<\/p>\n
Continue reading<\/span><\/i><\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19723,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[334,16,2782,341],"tags":[86,7383,1008,1138,7382,234,3917,7381,311],"class_list":["post-155590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-birds","category-photography-ethics","category-farmington-bay-waterfowl-management-area","category-northern-harriers","tag-circus-cyaneus","tag-debbie-piekarski","tag-farmington-bay-waterfowl-management-area","tag-image-theft","tag-north-american-raptors-facebook-group","tag-northern-harrier","tag-reverse-image-search","tag-stealing-photos","tag-utah-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/northern-harrier-1809-ron-dudley.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1zzJh-Etw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155590"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":155682,"href":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155590\/revisions\/155682"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
![\"\"](\"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/northern-harrier-1809-ron-dudley.jpg\" "\\"northern-harrier-1809-ron-dudley\\"")
<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/my-stolen-harrier-photo-on-FB.jpg\" "\\"my-stolen-harrier-photo-on-FB\\"")
<\/p>\n