Sad, sad blog update

Hey everyone. Hope you’re having a great day!

I am having a really AWFUL day for several reasons.

The most upsetting one is the fact that we found out through a kind Flickr stranger that people were stealing my photos and using them as their own identity, and as their own photography work. As a result, we have made ALL of our photos on Flickr private, which changes the unique URL to each image, which in turn causes my blog to completely MESS UP because the links to the photos have been broken.

What this means for me is that my blog is going to look really bad for a while as I slowly but surely rebuild it. Some blog posts still contain photos, but most have to be totally repopulated with images. It’s going to take a long time, and it’s not something I can sit down and work on for a week straight, so it will have to be gradual.

I’m pretty sad about the amazing thoughtlessness that allows some people to steal images, and the resulting MAJOR inconvenience it will be for me, but my blog is really important to me so I insist on rebuilding it. Then I’ll probably use blurb.com to print out hardcopy books – maybe one per year that I’ve blogged or something like that. Then at least I’d have a tangible memory of all my work online.

Anyway, thanks for your patience. I’m going to begin repopulating my most recent posts and work my way back. Fun times. Ugh.

Hope you all have a great week!

Heather

Ben Chill - July 20, 2010 - 12:00 pm

Is nothing sacred???

Naomi - July 20, 2010 - 1:23 pm

So sorry to hear that. That is awful! Hope you can get things straitened out with not too much of a headache.

Sheri - July 20, 2010 - 2:00 pm

I am so sorry for you Heather. I can’t imagine why anyone would even want to do something like this but then, we do live in a corrupt world. Anyway, we will patiently wait for the next installment of beautiful images by you (they are yours, aren’t they?!!! just kidding!)

kathy groves - July 20, 2010 - 9:40 pm

so sorry this has happened. it never ceases to amaze me the meanness of some ppl. sad sick world! great idea about the book–bet grandparents would love them too :)

Pix - July 20, 2010 - 10:01 pm

Wow, you seriously had a BAD day, with everything else that happened too. Sorry deary. Didn’t know about this!

matt - July 27, 2010 - 1:34 pm

Not to be debbie downer but you can just expect them to be stolen from your blog then… there is no way to protect them. sad but true :(

Benjamin - August 30, 2010 - 3:12 pm

I’m so sorry to here about this. I came across a funny post once were a guy actually sent a threatening letter to a photographer because he took his pics off Facebook. True, the guy had the nerve to say that he might sure since now he has to find all new pictures for his site. that right he admitter to stealing the photographer images and was going to sue the photographer over it. lol I think people are just really dumb when it comes to using other peoples images.

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