I’m tickled and honored to have been nominated for Nickelodeon’s ParentsConnect Best Boston Photographer. It’s great to have recognition for the work I’ve done (and will continue to do through this summer!) in the Boston area. I look forward to bringing the same level of quality and customer care to my new clients in Southern California and returning a few times a year to visit family and photograph all of my great Massachusetts clients.
If you are a former client or a fan of my work, please vote for me:
For Family Photographer
in Boston
you can vote every day through July! Thanks!
All orders placed and paid this weekend (current and past sessions), and/or any gift certificates purchased will be tax free.
As you can see, my three-year-old doesn't necessarily know the value of the dollar (or five), but I sure do! Have a great weekend. New sessions will be shared soon!
Many of you may notice those big watermarks I put across the
images I publish online. They are there,
as you may have guessed, to protect my copyright in the images (to insure that
the images aren’t stolen without compensation for the time and effort I put
into them), but they are also there to protect my subjects: my clients, my
models, and yep, even my children (these are pictures of me and my family
throughout this post).
(A. doing her ‘scary monster’ impersonation)
I’ve had so many photographer friends who’ve had their work
taken and used without their permission (or their clients’ permission) for
commercial campaigns on websites, packaging, even print and TV ads! Sure, they aren’t happy about it (to say the
least), but their clients are also victims, and this stealing of images isn’t
limited just to professional photographers.
Ordinary people who take and publish a particularly evocative image may
find their children staring back at them from an ad on primetime television or
slapped across a box for a product they wouldn’t want to endorse.
(me with my two girls)
I’ve recently learned about a digital photo frame that, in its terms of use, notes any user
grants the frame company a license to basically use any uploaded images however
they want. This is a bit scary to me – I know I wouldn’t want my children
endorsing a product for bed-wetters or my own face gracing a box for some sort
of medical cream (think of all the embarrassing possibilities!).
(my lovely husband being made into a pirate by A.)
That frame isn’t the only product or service with this kind
of wording – many image sharing and social networking sites also require you to
sign away your rights to use them. There
are definitely steps you can take to protect your images (and your children),
like watermarking images as I do on the blog.
Even if you don’t end up watermarking your images, it is my hope that
this blog post and others like it might get the word out to the offending
companies that stealing our images isn’t right, and people are going to speak
out against companies that do!
If you’d like to learn more, you can visit:
http://www.photoattorney.com/
http://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/
Last weekend was the Professional Photographers of Massachusetts convention. Amid a weekend of socializing with peers and great continuing education, they also hold a print competition. Professional photographers from around the state enter their work to be judged by Master Photographers on a panel.
This year was my first time entering and I’m happy to report all of my images won blue and red ribbons! These two, took home blue merit ribbons:
Blustery Bride:
Delilah:
