Category Archives: Lost Cause

Natural Images Photography / Natural Images Photo Video in Foley, AL

Website: https://www.naturalimagesphotovideo.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bgriffin70

PS Facebook Page Post

This photography group appears to operate in just about every state they can get their hands into.

There’s so many stolen images in the galleries I gave up sourcing. It’s ridiculous. Most are stock but not all. Most of the top gallery on their wedding page is stolen/stock, most of the real estate photos are stock and many of the corporate images are stock.

PS: Their pricing is bananas.


Update 9/9/2025:

This update is going on top so it doesn’t get lost.

Since my last update there have been a few incidents with Billy Griffin / Natural Images Photo Video. Some are issues with clients, some is just him being the swell human he is /sarcasm.

First, lets go to March 2025.

If you look at Billy’s social media you’ll see he’s constantly on the go traveling all over the country and is often in a different state each weekend day. If you’ve ever flown you know that this is dicey planning due to travel delays and I’ve been waiting to see if this bites Billy in the butt and it seems to have done so in March.

Britni hired Natural Images Photo Video for their wedding and paid $2500. Their package was supposed to include two days of service including a photo booth and dancing-on-a-cloud effects.

Billy was a no show for the day before the wedding and was an hour late the day of. He offered a refund of $1000 but said it had to be paid in increments due to being a family business. They ended up sending $200 but not the rest.

The client was rightfully upset and posted a public Facebook review of Natural Images Photo Video.

Now, there’s ANOTHER client from March with a similar issue.

Melani also had Billy no show for their first of two day coverage after they booked the $3500 two day package. I am not clear when their wedding was but she posted this review in March. At the time she posted Billy had not refunded or delivered anything. I believe their wedding was in Tampa.

Now lets move forward to July.

Billy posts one of his ads in a wedding group on Facebook and a photographer replies with his listing here.

Of course Billy blocked Mindy and sent her a kind message you’d expect from a man who claims to be a Christian.

Billy then went on a rant on his Facebook about her and me.

On August 16th Billy Griffin of Natural Images Photo was booked for a wedding in Sturgis, South Dakota. The client booked Billy for $2250 for a two day package to cover the rehearsal and wedding day. This package was supposed to include a boudoir session, drone coverage, photography and videography.

Yet again, Billy completely no showed the day before the wedding and then was late the day of the wedding making the clients push back their ceremony by almost an hour.

Billy claimed he ‘forgot’ to book a flight until it was too late/the prices were too high to arrive the day before the wedding and then blamed the airline for why he didn’t get to Sturgis until 6:30PM.

There’s one problem – Billy was live streaming a wedding in Alabama when he was supposed to be in South Dakota. The client said Billy claimed he booked this wedding after he found out he couldn’t afford get to South Dakota on Friday but I have my doubts.

Screenshot from Billy’s Facebook

Billy offered the client a refund of $1500 but told the client it would take 6 MONTHS to pay them back.

Some of the clients who have had issues with Billy have been trying to raise awareness on Facebook in various groups that Billy has frequented or where they found Billy but a lot of the posts have been taken down. 

On one post a photographer commented that has been an associate photographer for Billy. The clients had reached out to them since Billy never delivered the photos! 

Some of the clients who have had issues with Billy have been trying to raise awareness on Facebook in various groups that Billy has frequented or where they found Billy but a lot of the posts have been taken down. 

On one post a photographer commented that has been an associate photographer for Billy. The clients had reached out to them since Billy never delivered the photos! 

Once again, I’m asking you to check your own local wedding pages that you frequent and if Billy Griffin and/or Natural Images Photo Video is in your group message the admins with a link to his listing here and ask that he be removed. 

Oh, and he’s still using an ad with images he didn’t create. OF COURSE. 

Also, if your wedding is 10/4 I don’t think Billy is coming.

Screenshot from Photographers HIRING Photographers
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Amanda Elizabeth Photography in Oshawa, Ontario, Canada

Website: https://www.amandaelizabethphotography.ca/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/amandaelizabethphotos
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/amandaelizabethphotos/

Another day, another idiot photographer using stolen images to advertise for cheap mini sessions.

Update 11/30/2023: As I was writing my latest Substack newsletter an email came in tipping me off that Amanda is still up to her same shit. She’s changed her editing style, somehow amassed a decent following on Instagram and is now selling to photographers. You’d think from an innocent glance at her instagram that she’s living clean and learned from her mistakes…

Except now she’s using stolen photos to advertise to photographers for various retreats. On some she does say (beneath the cut or deceptively hidden of course) they are inspo but not all. She did not receive permission to use the images from the photographers that I’ve heard back from so far.

Note: this isn’t even the second time she’s done this. When I outed her in 2019 I got a hefty amount of messages that she’d done this numerous times before.

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Teresa Chong Photography in New York, NY

Website: http://www.teresachongphoto.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/teresachongphoto/

Yes, another repeat offender.  While this new name was updated on her past listing there’s a slew of new stolen works and rather than updating that one for the millionth time I’m going with a new listing.  Sigh.

This submission came to me because she submitted stolen work to a magazine.  Luckily they recognized the work as someone else’s and they looked her up and sent her to me.  I’m still shaking my head.

Amusingly she’s disabled right clicking on her website.  So while she hasn’t learned to not stop stealing images, she HAS learned to make it harder to source her stolen goods.

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A Plus Photography LLC aka Platinum Photography LLC aka Expressions Photo & Design aka Expressions by Aaron in Des Moines, Iowa

Website 1: https://www.expressionsphotoanddesign.com/
Website 2: http://expressionsbyaaron.com/index.html
Website 3: http://desmoinesweddingphotographer.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Photo-1552624121673737/ (he changed the name and has deleted all of the images)
App: http://myapp.buzz/expressionsphotoanddesign/
Newsletter 1: http://myemail.constantcontact.com/The-Fall-Bridal-Shows-Are-Upon-Us–Come-See-Us-at-Bridal-Forum-.html?soid=1112168023966&aid=bYMNVFmQCT0
Newsletter 2: http://myemail.constantcontact.com/Summer-Special-Wedding-Photographer-and-DJ-For–1995-00-.html?soid=1112168023966&aid=ZnO9Vn39XHE
Newsletter 3: http://myemail.constantcontact.com/You-don-t-want-to-miss-this-wedding-sale.html?soid=1112168023966&aid=uBgj7yRl8rA
Newsletter 4: http://myemail.constantcontact.com/Pre-Bridal-Show-Specials-and-Upcoming-Bridal-Forum-Information.html?soid=1112168023966&aid=JGCkaqnYXz4
You Tube:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikFZ7nylFjo&feature=youtu.be
Current Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/expressphotogroup/
Wedding Wire: https://www.weddingwire.com/reviews/expressions-photo-and-design-des-moines/ad0388bd2a22dc27.html
The Knot: https://www.theknot.com/marketplace/expressions-photo-and-design-des-moines-ia-661088
Website 4 (rebranded): https://platinumphotographyllc.com/
Website 5: https://platinumphotography.godaddysites.com/

Last night I received a tip that one of the photographers listed here in 2012, A&K Photography, was back up to his old tricks and using stolen images in his portfolio.  Not only that but he’s been pulling no shows at weddings as well.  I wonder if he’ll blame the former partner again?

Here is a link to the news story that aired last night about two weddings he no-showed to.  http://www.kcci.com/article/newlyweds-say-photographer-scammed-them-on-their-wedding-day/8677634

Also of note is that right when all of the shit started to hit the fan there was a sudden influx of 5 star reviews on his listing on The Knot.  Now you have to dig to find the negative reviews.

Of course most of the client reviews on his website are plagiarized.  Color me shocked.

Updated 2/16/17 – New Facebook Page has been added.  More plagiarized reviews have been added to his Facebook and Website and the original sources are linked below.

Update 2/26/17 –  There’s a few updates that I’ve done but in the past week haven’t had the time to properly document so I am adding those here now.

  • On 2/18/2017 PlatinumPhotographyLLC.com was registered anonymously on Go Daddy.  The website not only showed Expression Photo & Design’s images with the same name used to title the images but the phone number for the new company also is linked to Expressions Photo & Design.  Since the proof is in the pudding, all of the proof is shown below the cut.
  • On 2/19/2017 I received a slew of fake reviews across various platforms for my business.  One of those reviews had also given Expressions Photo & Design a glowing review… which was plagiarized from another review on a different photographer.
  • Since 2/21/2017 (my birthday, well done!) I’ve been getting increasingly angry emails, phone calls and texts from a “Gary” claiming that Platinum Photography LLC has no affiliation with Expressions Photo & Design and demanding that I remove the added link to this listing.  I even received a Cease and Desist from a law firm that is unlike anything I’ve ever seen before.

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Lori Cox Photography aka Lori Langston Photography aka Lori’s Creative Photography in Sopchoppy, Florida

Website:  http://loricoxphoto.com/
Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/LoriLangstonPhotography/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LoriCoxPhoto

Fucking Florida, amirite?

I’ve started to get a massive headache so I stopped listing images w/o sources.

Update 2/11/16 @ 11PM

• Lori’s Facebook Page is down
• Lori removed some of the images sourced below from her website, however she added at least one new stolen image in their place.
• Updated sourced images for the website with all images Lori didn’t originally photograph, including stock images.
• Updated source on main background image for website.

Update 2/12 @ 2PM

• Lori’s Facebook Page is still down however her profile is back up, still with stolen work.
• Lori has ads all over Facebook with stolen content representing her work, those are now included below.

Update 6/3/2016

• I received an email from Lori in May blaming hackers for the stolen images being on her website.  Since images remained on her website that were not her original works of art, I did not remove the post.  Also, unless you are posting selfies, you likely were not the photographer at your own wedding so those images have no place in your photography gallery IMHO.

From: Lori Cox
Subject: Being hacked

Message Body:
Please Please delete everything with my name in it.  I was hacked on my website, Facebook and they were leaving me bad email messages.  I am honest and love the work I do.  I do NOT steal photos.  Most of the photos they claimed I stole was my own personal Wedding.
Please remove them, thank you in advance!

• Today I received another email with more information about images that Lori has stolen so I decided to update the post while waiting for a session to download.

• Much of the original material also still remains so I’ve created a new category for Photo Stealers – Lost Cause.  For photographers who continue to use others intellectual works after being caught.

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