Re: Petroglyph Thefts - Ethical Questions for Photographers
You are not telling me anything I don\'t know. And your dare regarding this photo is likely the primary cause of any searching in this case. Thanks loads for that...
What, precisely, is your main goal here?
M.P.R. wrote: gdanmitchell wrote:
There is a huge difference between posting a photograph of a thing and posting specific information about where it is located and perhaps directions regarding how to find it.
I posted a photograph of petroglyphs with my original article at my blog to make just that point - it is possible to share photographs of things in ways that don\'t really endanger them. (If you do know where that one is, please do keep it to yourself. I\'m certain that I\'m not the only person who has been there.)
Dan
Dan, you fail to take into account, things like google image search.
These days, any photo you post, can be inserted into a computer program like google image search. Press the search button then seconds later, every other photo similar to it will come up. Sometimes thousands of them. Every single one that has ever been posted on the web. No matter how long ago, or well hidden. Even ones from personal blogs. This program will find them. Its scary how well and how quickly it works, and its free and easy to use.
Give google image search a try and see how well it works. I\'m not talking about typing in a description of a photo into google. I\'m talking about going into google image search, clicking on the little camera icon that comes up on the end of the image search box. Then inserting an actual photo into the program. Then it searches for other photos like it. Go see for yourself, it finds them, lots of them.
So from the beautiful photo YOU posted. You brought attention to this rock art site. It is easy to find the location of this site. Because you can bet others have taken a photo of the same location, and did not hide it. This is why I\'m saying the cat is already out of the bag. There is no way to hide this stuff anymore thanks to stuff like google. Too much information out there already that is super easy to find. Its too late to say lets keep locations secret. And these image search programs are getting better each day.
Only way you can not contribute to the ease of finding a site is to never upload or share photos... at all. To me, that would make no sense as well, as art and photos should be shared, and we shouldn\'t cower to criminals. I believe to only correct solution is to go after the criminals, hunt them down and make public examples out of them. As it is way too late to keep this stuff secret.
Frank
Nov 25, 2012 at 03:54 PM
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