DISCLAIMER about using my photos

I’ve been made aware that somebody is using a picture that I took of my feet, to sell their shoes on ebay.

While I take this as a tremendous compliment to my feet and photography skills, I’m a little disturbed that the person didn’t bother writing to me to ask if they could use it.  I didn’t even get credit for it.

I’ve contact this person and hopefully the situation will be resolved.

I know that by writing a blog for all the world to see, and by sometimes using my own photographs, I am taking a risk, but I also believe that people should at least take the high road and ask for permission OR give the original artist credit by linking the photo (or other such intellectual property) to my blog.  Everything I write and photograph here is copyrighted and is my property. Period.

If any of you are inspired by my photographs or any of the content of this blog and feel like including it in something, then I ask you to do two things:

1) CONTACT ME first.  On the sidebar to the right, in the “Pages” section, there is a link that says “Contact”.  Click on it.  Write me an e-mail and ask me if you can use it.  Whatever my answer is, you’ll see that I’m a very nice and reasonable person.

then,

2) GIVE ME CREDIT.  All I ask is that right next to or under the photo, put “Photograph by Tina Ferrari (or Tina Tangos) at http://tinatangos.com/blog”  That’s all you have to do.

Anyway, you’d be amazed at the positive karma that can come back to you if you just do the right thing.

Thank you in advance.