On Thanksgiving Day TeAndre Robinson was arrested and I finally can make my post. I’ve been sitting on this for a while due to his pending arrest. He is currently facing 21 felonies and 3 misdemeanor charges relating to his photography business (he was allegedly arrested earlier this year for unrelated charges). Brunswick Police are asking for any victims to reach out that hired TeAndre and were scammed by him as they believe there are more.
I don’t know where to even start with this, he hasn’t stolen photos that I’m aware of but he’s been allegedly bailing on weddings last minute like his fellow Ohio photographer White Oak Images. If he DOES show up he’s been slow or not delivering photos unless a client raises hell online. Of course when it comes to refunds those are also slow and rarely being paid in full.
When I made the post about White Oak I got a lot of messages about Teandres Photos so I made a post on my Facebook Group and also mentioned him in the Substack but now’s the time he gets a full post in hopes of reaching all that he’s scammed.
This isn’t going to be a typical post but I hope you still read on as these victims need their stories heard and this post shared to reach others who may not be aware of what is going on. TeAndre was posting in wedding groups worldwide and while this may be making the rounds here in Ohio it’s likely there are many more clients this story hasn’t reached.
This post will likely be updated as I get more stories and more clients find out.
Location: Based in Anderson, Indiana ish. She’s also had Fortville and Fishers as locations as well.
Other Areas She Advertises/Has Booked: All of Indiana, Illinois (she was in a Chicago based group), Missouri, Washington (Seattle), North Carolina and likely more areas I haven’t found yet.
After my post about Well Kept Design I got a few messages from people wanting me to look into Lena because she has a similar shady track record as a photographer.
The complaints are varied but all basically boil down to me not even letting my ex husband book this photographer. Stolen photos, last minute cancellations, no showing, overbooking, not paying photographers, not refunding clients, faking her Mom’s death, booking multiple photographers for her own wedding and cancelling last minute for various reasons, and just flat out not being professional.
Lena has been changing her name often on Facebook to avoid the comeuppance coming for her or to possibly evade getting booted from the hundreds of wedding related Facebook pages she’s in. She’s currently using Lena Ralston but has gone as Lena White and Lena Ervin.
This post took me almost 6 HOURS to write. So buckle up and figure out below where I finally lost my cool with all of these terrible stories.
This photographer has not only used images that aren’t their original images to promote sessions (mainly weddings) but also has been backing out last minute/no showing due to various reasons, mostly car accidents.
This is another photographer that has been driving in a lot of work with “pay what you can” sessions and really low pricing for weddings at expos.
Past Business Names: Whitney Elizabeth Photography, Whitney Jones Photography, Whitney Smith Photography, Irish Twins Photography, Don’t Blink Photography, The Wandering Orchid
Other Locations: California, Utah, Arizona, South Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Boston, Massachusetts/New England
Whitney has been submitted to me a few various times over the years but generally when I’ve had her dumped into my lap I’ve been too busy with the job that actually pays me to invest time into unraveling the mess that is Whitney Slusser / Whitney Slusser-Smith / Whitney Elizabeth / Whitney Elizabeth Knott / Whitney Elizabeth Knøtt.
There is some photo stealing here, she does like her some inspiration pics! However, the bigger picture here is the problematic history that Whitney has as a professional photographer.
I prefer things to be told chronologically so I’m going to attempt to tell this story in a timeline format so the sourcing format for stolen images will be a bit differet.
While I tried to mostly stick to things related to photography there are some other parts of this story that play into the photography parts so I’ve included it.
Grab your popcorn. It’s a (long) ride below the cut but I promise that it’s a story that needs telling.
Summary: In the past ~8 years of being in business that I can find online, Whitney Elizabeth Knøtt / Whitney Elizabeth / Whitney Slusser Photography (aka Don’t Blink Photography and Irish Twins Photography) has cancelled or no showed to many weddings and sessions. If she does show there has been problems getting photos and/or prints. Refunds are few and far between. She has also at times used images that were not her own to represent her business.
Update 11/9/2023: Ugh. I wish I could say that I’m surprised to hear that Whitney is up to her shit again this fall but I’m not. I’m mostly sorry for the clients she’s burned, yet again.
• Added four more weddings for 2023. One from July with photos and a refund that weren’t delivered until this week after the client posted online, three for October that she cancelled last minute on (as per usual, two were for the same date).
• Here’s hoping that maybe she’ll be prosecuted like CP Family Photography who has a similar history to Whitney (but with less clients affected).
Update 7/14/2023: • Added another client who Whitney sent in a last minute replacement for on 10/22/2022
• Added a post of Whitney needing last minute second photographer coverage for a wedding 5/27/2023
• More proof Whitney is still pursuing photography despite her claiming to be stepping back
Update 5/10/2023: Whitney is back to replying to ISO’s and posting ads for her photography business.
Update 2/20/2023 @ 10AM: even more receipts including a rebuttal from Whitney via email and Facebook (spoiler alert: she doesn’t refute anything with the sessions, only asserts the medical history is factual). Also included a chat message from Whitney telling her friends that she’s stepping back from photography in 2023.
Update 9/10/2025: I’ve put off updating this post for a while but this summer I’ve had a lot of messages about Whitney so I figured I’d finally update her post. She’s had some issues canceling last minute for birth photography. She’s also changed her business name to Wandering Orchid Photo.
Update 2/13/2026: Whitney has rebranded yet again to Light & Leaf and appears to be operating out of the New England area. She’s already canceled last minute on events and sessions there.
It appears she’s also dipping her toe into styled sessions and is hosting one in June in Newport.
I laughed when I saw that she was recommending herself in comments like a client not the owner.
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.
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.
This wall of shame is dedicated to photographers that feel that it's okay to steal others' work and post it as their own. Oh I'm sorry, it's okay to let their "web designer" do it.
