If I get one more e-mail asking, "Do you have more pictures from Katrina?", or "Can you send me some hi-res files?" I'm going to shoot myself. Or even just the ones telling me my photos are here or there and wondering if I know or not. It is amazing how old just answering those gets(and at no fault to the e-mailer, they have no idea how many times I do get to know). Today I was informed one of my photos won "best in show" at the Grundy County Corn Festival in Morris IL. I wonder who won! Also today, a Dutch Newspaper published them stating they were from AR and a friend of the family shot them.
Out of all this my biggest regret is not saving every single example to put on one page so people could see just how many sad people are out there. I mean it is really freaking sad! If I ever had a desire to put up screen savers for people it is looooooooooooooooooooooooong gone. It is extremely laughable at this point. If I were anyone out there I would not do this. There are a crapload of losers out there just waiting to use your stuff as their own.
I'm going to snap soon I think, lol. I can't hear about these anymore! It is amazing how old something really can get. I honestly don't know if I'm happy people tell me stuff anymore. What does this say about the possibility I'd ever want to bother going to court over any of it? This is my hobby, what I've loved to do as well as a source of income. It is scary to me when I start to hate it over THIS. People can steal and get away with it all day, as long as I never hate the hobby because of it. I'm glad people inform me, but I'm not glad the truth is they have to in the first place. It is an interesting road to travel. I'm close to ignoring every single e-mail about the images(hell I was already there once before). I'm super duper frustrated and annoyed at hearing it on and on and on and on. And this is not the fault of the informer at all! Just the widespread nature of it is a complete overload on one person to always hear about. Here is the visual I come up with for trying to explain what it is sort of like. Imagine someone right next to your ear saying one word once every minute for a good week solid, even at night while you try to sleep(use any word, after a while it would not matter what that word was). That is the visual I come up with now. You would anticipate the word that finally sets you off. Yep, I'm going to snap soon lol.
What may be very amazing isn't just the number of cases I'm hearing about of people claiming them as their own, but what must be the numbers that I'm NOT hearing about. I can't imagine what I'm not being informed of, based off all the crap I have been informed of. Sorry, I'm thinking about this 'outloud' on here right now.
I just thought for a second that it is all probably almost over anyway. Then I thought deeper about that one. I'm seeing the number of folks that likely have these on their puter or online host. This is DAMN sad to me. In all honesty this is probably far from done and being at this point I'm at with it it is not really good. I almost have to ask to not be informed of cases. I think somewhere I got sidetracked on my ignoring things and I should go back there. I have little choice, really. So, thanks to those informing me of this and that case, but I am asking to not be informed anymore. How messed up is that, lol. Life before this sounds soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo good right now. Put them on Trumps Plaza or whatever, I don't care anymore!!!! One has to stop and check their day once in a while and look at what they do with it. Hearing about this and repling to e-mails about this needs to become a much much smaller portion of my days. I mean we all only have so many. I'm wasting so much time screwing with all this...now. Just look at the length of this post. Well, hopefully it explains a lot and is my last on any of it. One can always hope.
Before I end this extremely negative post I must comment on one thing. There are FAR more cool folks out there saying what the truth is and calling liars out for what they are than the liars I hear about. I'm simply tired of the whole deal and the time it is taking up is all.
Regards,
