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.
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.
Update 2/11/2025:
This update is going on the top so it’s seen first before the historic updates.
Over the weekend Billy made a post about me on The Vendor’s Table Facebook Group. Once again Billy blamed everything on an employee who took over the running of his business while he was out of commission from 2020 – late 2022 due to heart failure and respiratory failure. I am a big old meanie for not taking his post down when it wasn’t him personally posting the stolen photos! *eye roll* HE WAS ON OXYGEN FOR THREE MONTHS! He is SO old (mind you, he’s only 5 years older than myself so this old bit is getting, well, old).
Commenters were urging Billy to sue me.
I couldn’t reply directly due to him blocking me so I made my own post linking his post here and expanding as to what has transpired since my last update here. Eventually the comments for both posts got locked.
While much of the ongoing saga with Billy is told in detail on the Substack I wanted to bring over one piece here: in October of 2024 Billy yet again claims to have unknowingly hired someone who wasn’t trustworthy.
At least two clients had another photographer that Billy subcontracted due to a claimed family emergency (yet he was alleged to be actually working a wedding elsewhere) who didn’t end up delivering the images to Billy when promised.
It’s also not only weddings he’s having issues with – it seems from at least one review he’s been bailing on portrait sessions last minute as well.
While I have not seen any current ads with stolen images and I believe the images posted may be his own (or at least images shot by people he’s hired to work for Natural Images Photo Video if not Billy himself) I still think these ongoing issues are noteworthy enough to be added here to keep people informed when hiring this company.
I’ve also heard reports from vendors that have worked with him at weddings that it is not smooth sailing when working with Billy and there are many complaints about working alongside Billy. Most often the complaint is that the timeline is basically blown to hell and things run really far behind.
Beyond the above, after I posted the update I was messaged that Billy is still using stolen images in his ads. Those are added below. Not only is he posting in wedding Facebook groups all over the country but also Quinceanera groups all over the country as well.
Update 2/13/23 @ 7PM:
Added: The owner’s excuses and more stolen images.
A local photographer gave me the heads up that Billy, owner of Natural Images, has been posting ads in quite a few local wedding groups on Facebook. Mind you, I’m in OHIO and he’s in ALABAMA. So WTF? Of course the ad is with one of the stolen images that I posted below.
Billy is placing the blame on a former employee and says he’s hired a new employee, Mallory, to fix the issue.
There are a lot of issues with this “former employee trying to sabotage me” lie, mostly that Mallory posted an ad on their Facebook Page 20 hours ago and the top image is stolen. So if she’s supposed to be fixing it all… uhh… you may have hired the wrong person. Oorrrr, Billy is lying and trying to come up with any excuse since he got caught.
Oh and there were stolen images on his website so claiming that everything there was their own work products is yet another lie.
Oh and another issue? That back in June someone realized that they were using stolen images so contacted the original photographers back when I was in retirement. Note the date of the message to the photographer.
Since Billy is active in about every local Ohio wedding group you may want to make sure that yours doesn’t have any ads from this photography group. He’s definitely all over the Gulf Coast area groups and Alabama groups. Possibly Kentucky too.
So… now I’m on a mission and I’ve added more sources below of images he’s stolen.
Fuck off Billy. Don’t lie.
Adding more stolen images below. I gave up at 50 but I could have kept going.
Update 2/14/23 @ 2PM:
Added: Mallory’s side of the story, faked review from website with stolen image, stolen image in an ad, stock landscape photos…
Billy blocked me on Facebook *cue the violins* and finally appears to have deleted most (NOT ALL) of the stolen images off his Facebook Page and website.
Mallory, the newly hired employee/past bride, commented on the Facebook post. She claimed that she was just using the images that Billy sent her to use in ads he had her create and post and she had no idea that they weren’t his images.
The stolen ads live on though in what feels like every wedding Facebook group in the United States. If you’re in the US make sure to check for them and their ads similar to the style below. Various profiles will post the ad from Billy to random profiles to a BIRD. So far he’s been found posting ads for weddings in Alabama, Mississippi, Florida and Ohio. I’m guessing there’s more.
In researching all of Billy Griffin / Natural Images Photography & Video Productions online footprint to make sure everything is down I found he’s also used a stolen photo in an ad for Foley Local Magazine (page 19). The top image is not his (sourced below) and I have my doubts about the second but I cannot find the original source.
Someone brought up that they had doubts they actually won the various awards they are claiming to. Since I’m digging in, I’m going ALL in and started to dig into that claim as well. I had concerns that like other thieves in the past, Billy may have entered a stolen image in a contest.
Claim 1: “Winners of the 1997, 1999, 2011, 2021 and 2019 Telly Awards for Wedding Videography, Cinematic Films Category”
There IS no Telly Award for Wedding Videography that I can find. I’ve searched for their names, business name… nothing. You’re welcome to browse yourself but I couldn’t find any record of them or the category they claim to have won. They may have done but I certainly couldn’t find any record of it.
Claim 2: “Winners of the Pretty Poser Magazine Weddings in the UK, 2021 and 2022 seasons”
Pretty Little Poser Model Magazine is based in the UK and appears to be a voting based magazine. There is NO yearly winner as he implies but there is one photo that they apparently did win something with
Claim 3: “Winners of the Wedding Galleria Magazine Portraiture Awards in 2011, 2014, 2017, 2018, 2020, and 2022 seasons”
THERE IS NO WEDDING GALLERIA MAGAZINE!!! Which means there is no Wedding Galleria Magazine Portraiture Awards.
MOST of the stolen images are gone from their website but some, like the images above remain. I know it’ll shock you to find out they are all stock images.
I also sourced below that there’s an image that was alongside a testimonial that was a stolen image. So, does that couple even exist? Do all of them?
Update 2/14/23 @ 4PM:
Fucking hell I missed the Instagram page.
Update 2/15/23:
When I get mad I dig and boy I keep digging.
Guess what I found?
Billy got caught doing this in 2005. More chat about it here.
He made a lot of storm chasers mad. Like this guy who was still talking about his theft 3 years later in 2008. He’s also mentioned by another storm chaser in 2011 on Twitter.
But I’m sure it was the employee hired in 2022 that got in a time machine and did that all to sabotage him. *rolls eyes*
Update 4/24/23:
Billy is still posting ads (with their own images this time) pretty much all over the US and if confronted about the link here claims that lawyers are involved and they are suing me for “personal slanderous attacks” against him and his wife. If they are, I haven’t received anything but if/when they do the truth is the truth. These images were not created by Natural Images Photo and Video that they used to heavily advertise in the United States. Billy himself posted many of these ads online, not just his employee. I’ve had others try to sue me but no one has won a case against me yet because the truth is a defense and I do not post here without evidence of the truth.
This ad below was posted by Billy himself, though he claims he never posted anything that was stolen and everything was posted by the claimed past employee.
