Received this scammer email this morning: Obvious scam is obvious. The big red flags are: Don’t fall for scams, guys.
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*Perhaps just a bit of hyperbole On Wednesday morning, after a sudden illness, we had to make the difficult, but ultimately for-the-best, decision to say goodbye to our beloved Winston. You may not have known Winston, but if you ever had the chance to meet him, he would’ve loved you instantly....
Exciting news! We are participating in this year’s East Main Arts Festival in Arlington, Texas. We’ll be selling prints, magnets and photocards. Here’s a taste of what we’ll have available for purchase: If you’re in the DFW area and are looking for something to do this Saturday, come by...
Using services like Pixsy, TinEye or Google Image Search (built into Chrome!) to find where your images are being used without your permission is a “fun” way to spend some time (and anger you at the same time!). But there’s a special kind of image thief that annoys me to...
On Saturday, October 1, 2016, I’ll be hosting a photo walk as part of Scott Kelby’s Worldwide Photo Walk at Tyler State Park, Texas. Here are the details: I encourage you to sign up for the walk at http://worldwidephotowalk.com/walk/tyler-state-park/. This will ensure you’re eligible to win one of the prizes being...
You use one of the default icons. It shows me you don’t care enough to make the effort to set yourself apart individually, so you probably don’t care about your craft. You have less than 100 photos. This one is arbitrary on my part, as I’m sure there are a...
So, someone in Brazil stole one of my photos: But I don’t understand what they’re trying to say: Also, they messed with the colors!
A couple of days ago, my featured photo on 75Central.Com was an abstract detail of Royal Caribbean’s Allure of the Seas‘ port-side balconies: In the description, I noted that this ship is the largest passenger vessel ever constructed (1,187 feet long and ~225,000 GT). After posting this, I started wondering...
I routinely submit my photos to both 500px and Pixoto, mainly for my own smug satisfaction of racking up high image scores on both sites. Earlier today, I uploaded my recent “Merge” photo to both sites. Afterwards, while viewing their scoring progress, I noticed that while the 500px copy of...
I’ve been slowly going through the photographic effects of my grandparents’ estate—slides, negatives and prints from a lifetime of travels and working in the oil industry. Earlier this evening, I was flipping through some preliminary scans of prints and slides I did a few months back and found this one:...