I've wanted a small digital camera for a while now so I can easily carry around with me for those unexpected photo opportunities & also one small enough to use at a club on a busy night. I love my Nikon, it's a great camera, but it's so big & heavy that it can be awkward taking anywhere busy with me, & I wouldn't even THINK about taking it into a pub or club! I finally had a bit of free money to use, so invested in a nice Canon IXUS 80 IS. & wow. I love it, I couldn't have gotten a better deal.
This is me (not looking my best ) holding my most prided drawing!
I was looking for pictures of Rossi's 46 as he uses it on his bike, & typed "valentino rossi 46" into a Google image search [link]
& what do I see? My artwork as the first two results of the search, only the watermark was removed & it had been used in a small graphic that a designer has used to accompany a blog entry of his on his website.
Now, I'd be flattered by this but not only did he edit out my water mark all he's written about the image is:
"Edit: sorry, was totally headbanged by the race, forgot to tell something about the image:46 .used an inked image transformed from a poster, added the official rossi colour ( Yamaha Camel ), picture previously used at my ole blogger account."
So where's my credit? I don't appreciate him just using my art however he sees fit without even acknowledging me.
I'm currently typing an e-mail to send, asking for the image to be removed or proper credit given to me & links back to my gallery here.
Okay, so I haven't been back to say "OMG! I got my computer!" or anything, nor have I prepared any to upload to deviantART as my Grandmother passed away on Friday & it's thrown everything off. So I things will probably get neglected around here as most places I regularly visit will.