If there’s one thing I hate its false representation, an example of which is people passing off pictures others have taken as their own. I do post others pictures on my blog to illustrate the occasional point but never would post someone else picture on Flickr or any other photo sharing webpage and try and say I took it. The reason I’m ranting about this is because about a month ago I came across a picture of a leopard in Sri Lanka. I immediately recognized the picture from a Pbase gallery by David Behrens, specifically this picture posted back in 2002 and which I had come across while still in college years ago. 

In fact looking at most of the pictures hosted on that Flickr account it looks like they have been culled from a wide range of sources. But here’s the crux of the matter, someone commented on the picture and the poster’s reply indicated ownership of the picture. Now that really bloody annoyed me, the decent thing to do in response to the person’s comment would be to admit the poster him/herself did not take the picture but culled it off a website. I in response posted a comment mentioning the original photographer should be credited but it was pretty quickly taken down. That in my opinion was stupid and shows a complete lack of respect for the effort that some of us put into our photography. I know the Flickr poster is not making any money off the picture but trying to take credit for taking the picture is pretty low.

P.S. I’m not entirely sure what that picture has to do with my post, but just thought it looked funny, I did not however draw it.