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Brianna Cate Photography in Walla Walla, WA

Website: https://www.briannacatephotography.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Briannacatephotographyllc
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/briannacatephotographyllc

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I’ve had this person submitted to me many times over the years but it always seems to hit whenever I’m swamped with work or just don’t have the time to really dig into it.

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I have a boatload of submissions to work on and I guess we’re starting here.

Brianna sure likes her watermark. Shame it’s on photos she didn’t create but she sure acts like she did. They are mostly stock images but as you’ll see you’d never know it if reading her post about it. Most of these are also on her Instagram but I only showed the top one there.

You know how much I love fake stories and Brianna does too! Alexa + Eli huh?? The original photographer is Russian so I’m going to guess that they didn’t hail from Seattle…

Reminder if you’ve somehow missed it but I’ve now started a Substack and have been writing a bi-weekly newsletter about Photo Stealers, industry news and copyright stuff.

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James Roney Photography in Falls Church, VA

Pixels: https://jamesroneyphotography.pixels.com/art
Fine Art America: https://fineartamerica.com/profiles/jamesroneyphotography
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JamesRoneyPrints/

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The hilarity of this man getting caught because he called out OTHER people for stealing images is *chef’s kiss*

Not only has he stolen images and uploaded them into his various fine art galleries but he’s sold some of these images.

You can even have them placed onto products! I love that most of the items below are shown with stolen images.

There’s so much I don’t have the time to source them all but here’s just a teaser before I head off to photograph a wedding. This is only after searching about 2 of 8 pages of his images on Pixels.

Update 6/25/2022: Apparently James wants to claim that all of these images are in the public domain so he’s free to do as he wishes with them. So I’ve added the usage rights to each photo that I can find releases for.

Here’s what he’s added to his Pixels page:

“All Smith Mountain Lake Images on this site were taken by James Roney. All other photos not taken by James Roney were obtained through a ‘paid’ Copyright license; all other photos were obtained legally through commercial sites specialized in public domain photos. No photos were knowingly or intentionally stolen to sell here. Historic paintings found here are public domain. If you find a photo of yours that we ‘legally’ obtained, please let us know right away, and we will remove the image in question. If you have one, be sure to attach your Copyright License with your take down request please. There are workarounds if you don’t have one. We do not use Google images as picture source to sell. Anyone who tells you we knowingly steal photos to sell here are flat-out lying, and can be held liable.”

He has also added some credits on the images so those images are now being used legally but some of the credits are… kind of wild.

I removed the images he’s now credited properly under the creative commons terms and I also removed a few of the images from stock sources he claims to have procured the proper licensing for.

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Kyiera Jones Photography in Houston, TX

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Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/KyieraJonesPhotography/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kyierawilliamsphotography/
Instagram 2: https://www.instagram.com/kyierawilliams/

I may have done a shot before drafting this up – if there are any typos I blame it on the tequila.

If you are a workshopper (and boy was there drama about her classes) you shouldn’t be using images that aren’t your original images on your photography social media pages.  Scratch that, you should NEVER use someone else’s images on your photography business pages full stop.  Especially with the hashtag #featuremyshot .

Yes, these images are stock for the most part but she is using them to represent her work, and thus, taking credit for them.  This is not okay, especially when she’s using these images not only to gain photography clients but photographers as clients as well.

Yes I know this photographer allegedly just had her equipment stolen (I’ve seen the Go Fund Me and multiple stories she’s posted about it) and I know this is bad timing for this post but that’s what started someone digging into her work because they saw the inconsistencies in her portfolio.

Don’t steal.

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