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<\/p>\nA recent print request brings back nasty memories of image theft involving another victim besides just me.<\/p>\n
Yesterday I received a print request from a woman who wants the print for her daughter’s bedroom. It’s an older image and my photos are spread across four different computers so it often takes me a while to find the original RAW files of photos like that. Then I got involved in reprocessing the photo and following older links on my blog regarding when the same image was stolen eight years ago. Before I knew it I’d spent so much time fiddle-farting around with that print request and its aftermath I didn’t have time to continue with my original plans for today’s post.<\/p>\n
So I decided to repost the photo the woman requested a print of. After all, it’s been eight years since I posted it so it will be new to many blog followers and so will the sad, even tragic, story of image theft.<\/p>\n
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1\/1600, f\/9, ISO 400, Canon 40D, Canon EF 500mm f\/4L IS USM + EF 1.4 Extender, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/p>\n This is the photo in question. It was taken at Farmington Bay WMA on a bitterly cold January morning. The kestrel was trying to warm up on a favorite kestrel perch that sadly no longer exists. It was a remnant of a very old, small tree that either fell down on its own or was knocked down by some ignorant human. The background is the snowy Wasatch Mountains in shade. I like the photo for many reasons, including the single piece of ice below the kestrel’s tail that reinforces the heat-conserving puffiness of the little falcon..<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The tale of image theft involving this photo is complicated, extremely convoluted and involves another victim besides me. His name is Alessandro Pinna<\/a><\/span><\/span>, a highly talented theatrical photographer based in Italy and London. Alessandro was victimized even more than I was.<\/p>\n As I said the story is complex and convoluted so I won’t tell it again here. But if you’re interested and you like a little intrigue with your morning coffee you can follow it in the two older blog posts I’m including links to below. Some of the links within those posts no longer work properly, including the link to Alessandro’s police report and the one to my photo galleries, but the story is there if you have the interest. To make sense of it all you’ll need to visit the two posts in order.<\/p>\n I repeat, Alessandro was a victim and not a perpetrator but in the beginning I didn’t know that.<\/p>\n To make matters even worse, guess where the woman who sent me the print request for this image found the photo in the first place. She didn’t find it on my blog, instead she found it on Pinterest which is one of the most popular hangouts for image thieves on the internet.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n And of course, whoever posted it on Pinterest removed my copyright watermark first.\u00a0If you ask me Pinterest isn’t much more than a den of thieves.<\/p>\n Ron<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A recent print request brings back nasty memories of image theft involving another victim besides just me.<\/p>\n\n
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