familiar photos from dgrin users on strange site

rainforest1155

Just got a message from google alerts for having found my name on this smugmug site. It's called "Amazon web services" and uses some kind of amazon.com like logo.
Aparently the owner took a picture of mine and put it in his Europe travel gallery with a copyright watermark containing my name added to the picture and put my name in the caption. At least I got credited...other pictures on the site look familiar, too and they didn't have any credits:
- Andy's Grand Central Terminal shot
- Lightning over Brisbane from gus I think

I think there's more, but I guess you'll be best of reporting your own shots yourself here. I'll leave the guy a comment on my picture with a link to here in order to give him a chance to explain himself. Going to be tough though.

Sebastian

onethumb

rainforest1155 wrote:

Just got a message from google alerts for having found my name on this smugmug site. It's called "Amazon web services" and uses some kind of amazon.com like logo.
Aparently the owner took a picture of mine and put it in his Europe travel gallery with a copyright watermark containing my name added to the picture and put my name in the caption. At least I got credited...other pictures on the site look familiar, too and they didn't have any credits:
- Andy's Grand Central Terminal shot
- Lightning over Brisbane from gus I think

I think there's more, but I guess you'll be best of reporting your own shots yourself here. I'll leave the guy a comment on my picture with a link to here in order to give him a chance to explain himself. Going to be tough though.

Sebastian

"The guy" = me.

I did a demo for all Amazon employees a few weeks ago and we created that account for it.

Don

rainforest1155

onethumb wrote:

"The guy" = me.

I did a demo for all Amazon employees a few weeks ago and we created that account for it.

Don

Haha, okay then you can delete my comment!
I like the way google informs me about such demos and other stuff involving my name.

Now I'm curious: Is Amazon planing on outsourcing all their product images to smugmug or what?

Sebastian

Andy

rainforest1155 wrote:

Haha, okay then you can delete my comment!
I like the way google informs me about such demos and other stuff involving my name.

Now I'm curious: Is Amazon planing on outsourcing all their product images to smugmug or what?

Sebastian

Stay tuned, Sebastian, stay tuned.

flyingdutchie

Andy wrote:

Stay tuned, Sebastian, stay tuned.

Now i'm even more curious!!!

marlinspike

1 - where does google analytics tell you all that
2 - i hope all photos dont get outsourced to smugmug. Too much traffic going to smugmug as it is.

xtnomad

Whatsa Up
Sounds like bigger things are coming.

Sheaf

marlinspike wrote:

1 - where does google analytics tell you all that
2 - i hope all photos dont get outsourced to smugmug. Too much traffic going to smugmug as it is.

1 - I'm guessing it's a Google Alert, something a lot of us here use.

2 - Patience.

rainforest1155

Sheaf wrote:

1 - I'm guessing it's a Google Alert, something a lot of us here use.

2 - Patience.

1 - Right - I set one up for my name and get a mail everytime it pops up somewhere.
2 - Having patience is not an easy thing, but I guess I'll manage it.

Thanks for the teasing - it's way better than having no answear!

Sebastian