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My Best Photos Ever Now for Free!

by mwarv June 9, 2015

Sorry if you fell for the headline. You’ve joined the list of media houses, corporate organisations and individuals who believe photographers’ work shouldn’t cost a dime as they steal, plagiarise and manipulate our work for fame and profit without our consent.

To protect themselves from image thieves, many photographers have started using huge watermarks across their images as a way to protect what is their intellectual property. I totally understand where they’re coming from and in the absence of steal-proof technology, watermarks seem to be our only protection.

I’ve opted not to do this with my images because huge watermarks take away from the beauty of an image.

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I’ll keep sharing my images with minimal watermarks. If you’d like to use any for editorial or commercial purposes, visit PichaDuka and download them there. If this plea doesn’t stop you from stealing what I’ve worked hard to create, may my mighty warring angels work hard to get the point across.

7 Comments

  1. Jonathan Siaga

    June 9, 2015 at 7:54 am

    Hahahaha that’s a good one there… and on a serious note I also have using watermarks on my photos. I wonder if there any other channels or institutions that can help us photographers against plagiarism…

  2. Mbugua Njihia

    June 9, 2015 at 8:34 am

    Adobe did have a product some years back, I am not sure if it is still in their folio or it was deprecated.

  3. Ich

    June 9, 2015 at 8:37 am

    Great article. I still read to the end to see if there was a free photo.

  4. Sonnie

    June 9, 2015 at 9:42 am

    Mwarv you’ve worked hard to be where you are. People should pay for your work! This will make the point crystal clear

  5. SunnyLikeNjerii

    June 9, 2015 at 9:51 am

    I was bout to go ham… Need new prints for my wall. But you are fair. Thank you for being kind and gentle and giving media, corporate institutions, government and individuals an opportunity to sow into your giftings and talent.

  6. Caesar

    June 9, 2015 at 9:04 pm

    LOL very nice…now can we have ones with no watermarks…

  7. Elijah Miano

    June 10, 2015 at 5:23 pm

    Well put sir! Well put!

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