Website: https://outerbanksphotography.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/outerbanksphoto

I started Photo Stealers before Google Lens was a thing and it was all due to my ability to be able to guess who the original photographer on a thief’s website was. While there are SO MANY new photographers now that it’s impossible I am still often able to do this with photographers whose body of work I’m familiar with.

Case in point, Brooke Mayo.

Brooke is not only an immensely talented and AMAZING human, she was my wedding photographer and who I looked up to SO much when starting out and through to today. I love her work and who she is.

So when I came across this website I didn’t have to Google Lens shit, I knew in my soul that this was Brooke’s work (of course the one image he didn’t crop the logo out of helped prove me right). I also know Brooke and I verified that Vincent Gross was not her employee.

I’m guessing that Vincent is rebranding from Outer Banks Photography to Duck Photography to get away from the bad reviews out there but who knows really the thought behind it.

Also fun fact, I’ve actually met this guy. His (ex?) wife was an officiant at a wedding I photographed in the Outer Banks and lets just say he didn’t leave a favorable impression.

Case in point of why I do what I do, when searching to find the source link for the first image on Vincent’s page, the source URLs Google comes back with don’t link to Brooke despite the image being on her homepage. Google thinks the image belong to Vincent and may be punishing Brooke’s page for the duplicate content even though it’s her image.

I don’t know what Vincent’s intention was here but it’s kind of creepy to use a Brooke’s images AND images OF Brooke and her family/children.

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