It infuriates me when I see my pictures stolen in front of my very eyes. I don’t mind them taking my pictures and post them on their site if at least, they give the credit to where it is rightfully due. Or, I don’t even mind seeing my pictures in people’s site so long they leave the pictures the way they are – unaltered-  for people to oogle on. That’s fine with me. People are smart and they can eventually trace to whom the photos belong.

What irks me is despite of how repeatedly I told the guy that the pictures were mine (by leaving comments on my pictures that are displayed on his site , and yes with his signature on them,) instead, he had the gall to get mad at me, and told me that he got the pictures from a different site, and that he already thanked the person from whom he got them. What I would do if I were him, after he was notified, I would get rid of the pictures or if he likes my pictures so much, I would retain them and put a caption that the pictures were taken by Belle.  It is the right thing to do.

Of course, he didn’t do a thing.  Instead, he took it upon himself and put a signature on my photograph that he knew he didn’t take.  Which, by the way,  only sneak thieves are capable of doing. And what is worse was he had the courage to alter my photo by cosmetically removing the other person from it using the photoshop and put his own signature at the bottom and making it look like his. And the funny thing is he did an amateurish job at it that even a kid would know that there was something wrong with the picture, as if he painted it over with tool brush that was done so lousily.

Take a look:

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original picture

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the picture that the thief altered.

Doesn’t that tell the type of person he is?  Definitely, an untrusworthy sneak thief.

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