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One Link Photography in Hendersonville, NC

Website: https://www.onelinkphotography.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100089011366034
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/onelinkphotography/

PS Facebook Page Post

Ugh.

Apparently he’s been already approached about his use of others copyrighted works and took a few images down but apparently he didn’t care to take down ALL the images that weren’t his.

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Kaley Toth Photography in Youngstown, OH

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kaleytothphotography
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kaleytothphotography/

PS Facebook Post

I was minding my own damn business when a post hit my Facebook feed from a photographer advertising mini sessions in a wedding group. I pinged right away they were stolen images so I searched to verify, then went to her Facebook Page and saw a shitbrick of stolen images advertising various sessions.

I replied and said, “These aren’t your images and it’s copyright infringement to use someone else’s work to advertise your own. This goes for ALL of the photos on your Facebook Page advertising sessions with images that aren’t yours.” and went along with my Sunday, not intending to make a post.

Then Kaley replies back saying, “If you read the entire post it’s stated it is an example of the set up. Thank you for your concern 🙂

Ma’am. You did NOT just try to gaslight me. No, no siree.

Her original post, as shown below, states NOWHERE that these aren’t examples. She slyly edited to say that after I called her out then tried to gaslight me by saying her post stated that. EVEN IF IT DID, since we’re all here we know better than thinking that makes copyright infringement okay but she didn’t say that originally.

I replied again and also called her out on her gaslighting. She deleted the post and then blocked me. Curiously, she did NOT delete her ad.

So, here we go.

To make it CRYSTAL clear: even *if* you say “inspiration photos” unless you have permission from the photographer/original content creator you cannot just use the images. Even if you have THEIR permission your clients have a case against you for deceptive advertising if your images do not compare in quality to what you posted.

DO NOT USE IMAGES THAT ARE NOT YOUR OWN FOR MINI SESSION ADS.

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ACM Studios / Boudoir by Alice in Fresno, California

Website: https://acmstudios20.wixsite.com/acmstudios
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/acmstudios20
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/_acm_studios/
Boudoir Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/boudoirbyalice_/

Not how I planned on spending one of my few Saturdays off this year but here we are. It’s almost somewhat refreshing to get back to photo stealing after dealing with getting scammed a month ago though!

I suspect this photographer has joined some photographer action Facebook and/or Boudoir groups because some of the photos I can’t find online but she has others from the session so she got them somewhere. If you run one of these groups you may want to make sure she isn’t a member.

Since she stole multiple items from a single session I’m posting the first after a bit because it’s a lot of work lol.

As always, there is a huge difference between Alyson’s work and what she’s stolen.

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Katrina Edmunds Photography in Banbury, Oxfordshire UK

Website: https://www.katrinaedmundsphotography.co.uk/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/katrinaedmunds.photography/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/katrinaedmundsphotography

This photographer was posting prices that seemed too good to be true (£199 to £249 for wedding day coverage) on a local wedding group and many pinged that the images she was using were stock and possibly stolen. Katrina chose to double down claiming that these images were taken at “specialist professional wedding shoot training courses” and over the past 7 years in the business.

These images are all presented as her own, often accompanied with stories about the session so she is absolutely purposefully misleading clients as to the quality of her work. She’s saying thank you to compliments about the images on Instagram. The few images that appear to be her own work are vastly different in style and quality than what she’s presenting.

There are more images the ones below but from the same sources.

Update 1/29/2022: Katrina’s sent me a few emails and I found them highly amusing. I’ve attached them below. Apparently this is just an incorrect assumption and I’m the photo police.

She’s also gone to the trouble of updating her IG username but still hasn’t removed the stolen images.

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Adam and Keli AKA THE SPANIERS in Cincinnati, OH

Website: https://www.thespaniers.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheSpaniersPhotography/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/SpaniersPhoto/

First some site business – my website went down at the beginning of February. Thankfully the company I hired was able to use a backup from June. There are posts missing from June through January of this year, some images missing and random things amiss but at least the website is functional again.

You may recognize this name… they were featured here back in 2019. It appears that they just cannot help themselves because they are back to plagiarizing AGAIN. I guess they really weren’t that sorry.

Since they were caught at it again this morning many pages on their website are down so I’m working with what is left. If you click around their website you’ll see what else was likely plagiarized. Some of these may have been in the first round of their outing here but since they remain here they’re being included again.

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