The Really Good, The Really Bad, And Some Karma

It’s really funny how things work out.

I assumed that some friends, family, or unfortunately people I don’t care for may have been taking my photos and saving them, but I never thought I would really have to explain to people that they cant post my photos on a public forum without asking, crediting, and/or linking back my photos. But to stay on the safe side I added to my blog, “please feel free to use any photos, but be sure to credit them and link them back to my blog.” I’m not a jerk, I think it’s more than fair for me to ask people to credit my photos. Funny thing is, I added this yesterday, and hours later found my photos from my blog stolen and posted on someone else’s flickr with no tags, credit, links, or anything. (Yes, this does have to do with Marlowe’s father). Last time I checked, all photos and words on this blog were mine. So what changed? Nothing, some people just don’t want to be respectful and play by the rules. This blog has many purposes, and one of the purposes is for me to one day show it to Marlowe and for her to be able to look back at all the pictures and great moments she had as a child. A blog is such an incredible tool for me to be able to keep a day to day diary on her life for the future Marlowe and for current far away friends and family members to read and keep up to date. My long distance family loves being able to keep up daily with the life of Marlowe and Drea. And even for her father… I mean, really, what other father who moves 1,200 miles away would be able to keep up to date on his child like this? None. He isn’t part of her day to day life, or even week to week, and hardly month to month. Now there will be no photos for him to see or words to read about his daughter. Now he wont know when she first rolls over, or when she begins to teeth, or crawl, or hardly anything. He made his choice and abused this blog and well, I don’t appreciate it when people are selfish and take things for granted. I really never wanted to have to stop posting the wonderful pictures of my beautiful daughter and I definitely didn’t want to have to put watermarks on my photos, so my question is: now what? I asked to have photos removed and was refused. Do I stop blogging and take away from my friends, family, and Marlowe because of one selfish person? Or do I keep going? I figured, for now, I would keep blogging, but limit Marlowe posts and/or make them private and any photos containing Marlowe will have a friend or a family member holding her. We’ll see how that goes. It’s all pretty upsetting. Is it really that difficult to follow the rules? All I have to say to the person who knowingly stole, posted my photos, and refuses to remove them is: you are a pathetic individual and karma has already gotten a hold of your sad life. And what I want to say to the people who have reblogged and/or posted credited photos is: I really appreciate your support! Thank you thank you!