It’s been an exciting time working on the website and I’d like to talk about a painful decision I had to make to protect my work.
So last weekend I was surfing the net and received an email from a good friend. He had been searching the net and found a forum that had my pictures in it and without my permission. I went over and saw what was going on and freaked. Someone had taken some of my test shots, chopped them up and then made the result skewed. I was taken aback and didn’t know what to think.
I immediately sent a complaint to the forum head to get the post off because they were my pics and the person did not have the rights to use them. I also posted in the thread about how this was illegal and to please pull all images from any other place he had them. I later found out they were on a Canon Europe official server, which made things really strange. I then proceeded to email Canon and ask them to take down my images, which in two days the images were gone as well as the original link that my images were put up in.
I’m sad to say, but I’ve now had to protect all my images on this site so people cannot take them and use them for their own good. I am a very trusting person and hope people haven’t been taking these images from my site and making prints without my permission, but now it’s nearly impossible to do so. It’s tough, but it is what I had to do to protect my work as an artist.
If you need any image from here for a desktop or just to have in your personal collection you will have to email me first in order to get approval. Sorry if this will take some time, but it is how I will run things from now on. I hope you all understand and I hope to keep everyone happy as best as I can.
Chris Warkocki
Photography 2.0
You can contact me by Email here
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Wow have I been busy taking lots and lots of sexy pictures. I've added two new galleries in the model section and I believe I've surpassed my previous shoots in terms of style, composition and wow factor. It's been an exciting year with all these shoots and the season has just begun.
Yesterday I shot with my new favorite model ever, Anna Wang. The poor girl had to wake up super early to drive down to Rockford from Madison for the shoot and we went aout 4 hours straight taking pictures and had a great time.
This girl was a complete joy to shoot with. She has such personality and just life that is hard to explain. I shoot people because I love communication and interaction with other people and she just struck me as an awesome person. It's tough to find cool people like her nowadays, but it was well worth putting up with her (just kidding Anna). You can check out her modeling stuff on Model Mayhem at this link http://www.modelmayhem.com/annawang so check it out and let her know she rocks.
Speaking of rocking... Anna is an up and coming singer/songwriter with quite the voice people. I listened to her music online and even had my own personal show at my house and boy is she good. Her voice is stunning and heck she ain't a bad looker to boot... sorry Anna had to say it. Please check out her music at www.purevolume.com/annawang and I even hear she is working on a CD. I know I want to be first in line for one of her CD's so look out cause she might just be our next superstar. She definitely has talent and the personality so let's all wish her luck and let her know that we believe in her.
Well, time to get going and work on cleaning up this room of mine, but for now I'd like to thank everyone for believing in me and always being there for me. It's been a great ride and I can't wait to continue to do what I do best.
Chris Warkocki
Photography 2.0
You can contact me by Email here
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