Policies and other boring red tape...

I really really hate that I have to post this blog but, my business is my lively hood and I need to make you aware of my policies and why such policies are necessary. Please know that I appreciate each and every one of you and this is in no way shape or form made to offend anyone.

First of all, ALL of my images are copyright protected and thus property of me. What does this mean exactly? This means, you are prevented from altering my images in anyway without my consent. This includes using them as your facebook profile pictures. Your kids are cute and you want to show them off and I am 100% okay with you doing so without even asking as long as you do not crop or alter them in any way. Why you may be asking... 1st of all, I spend a great deal of time processing your images until they are just the way that I would like them to appear. I want my work to reflect MY work, not your own handy editing. Also, the images I use on facebook have my logo on them, this is for advertising purposes obviously. When someone sees a profile picture of yours that they just love, I want them to know who took it so that they might call me as well. Word of mouth is 99.9% of my business. The logo is also to prevent people from printing my images directly from my fb page. I've actually had a local grocery store call and inform me that someone was trying to print photos with my copyright image on them! This is a bad idea for several reasons. A. It's all sorts of illegal to violate a copyright law. This is STEALING! It is no different than me walking into a store you may own or work for and helping myself to a few products free of charge B. why would you want a walgreens print from fb? It's terrible quality and will undoubtably be grainy and blurry. All of my prints come from a professional high quality printing lab that does the image waaaaaaaay more justice than 1 hour photo!

Another problem is online galleries. As you know, my galleries are active for 10 days from the time they are hosted. If you know you will not have the time and/or funds to make your purchases in those 10 days, please let me know ahead of time and I will be glad to host when you are ready. I have alot of people ask me to re-host galleries later and that's perfectly fine but when you ask me to re-host every 10 days 4 times in a row, I'm going to need to set some boundaries. Why is this such an issue you're probably asking? Well, I pay for the amount of photos I can have uploaded at once so when I have clients with current galleries hosted, I have to pay to re-host yours as well. This is okay once but more than that, has me losing money. I want to MAKE money, not lose money. That being said, I will begin charging a $10 re-hosting fee to anyone who has not placed an initial order should their gallery need to be re-hosted. Reorders will always remain free. :)

Thank you so much for understanding and being so supportive! Hope everyone has an incredibly blessed Thanksgiving! I know I personally have a bazillion things to be thankful for, including you!