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My wife just had an email from her cousin, who I have never met, asking for me to send him 6 of my best photographs. Seems he does interchange photos with a friend. Of course I refused because I don't know what he would be doing with them. Then there is copyrite issues he then passed then on for sale. It make no difference if it is a friend of relative , something like this I would heavily watermark first, or send a very low quality photo that could not be used for anything
 
Send him 4 of your worst. If need be take them now especially for him. Or, open it up to the forum and let your chums here send you an awful 4.

Hopefully you'll never hear from him again.

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I think that might make a good thread... "Four awful pictures required to send to stranger cousin."
 
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Why the heck would he wish to share(?) images not taken by himself???

Perhaps you should ask your wife to pose the question on the surmise she knows that you would not randomly share them with anyone let alone a relative!
 
Box Brownie said:
Why the heck would he wish to share(?) images not taken by himself???

Perhaps you should ask your wife to pose the question on the surmise she knows that you would not randomly share them with anyone let alone a relative!
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Sometimes I get people who are alongside me when I'm photographing if I would send them a photo. It's happened a couple of times at Bempton. On my recent visit, one young man from SE Asia somewhere asked if he could take a mobile shot of my LCD screen of puffins. I said he could. I enlarged the photo for him. I looked away to speak to someone. He left. He must have used the toggle for the LCD screen photos because it took me ages to get rid of four photos at once rather than one as it was before he took his shots. I've also given a couple of full size steam loco shots via Email.. At Bempton middle-aged couple on holiday from Australia looked at my LCD shots of Gannets with a chick. I've posted them on here. She only had her mobile. Some days later got a message on my Flickr l asking if I'd mind sending her a couple to frame for home.. I did that along with a couple of Puffins. About 5MB size. Tbh. I have wondered if I should be doing that . One day my wife had a friend round and she saw my Barn Owl photo framed on the living room wall. She asked if she could buy a print for her mother's 98th birthday coming up soon as she loved owls. I did have another large photo of it printed and if it was to bring some happiness to a 98 year old then that's good and I gave it to her. She still wanted to pay but I didn't want that. I also gave one of a Red Kite, I'd taken taken at Gigrin Farm, to the receptionist at my opticians who had them visit her garden out in the sticks and her 7 year old daughter loved them. She told me how overjoyed the child was having it framed and hanging on her bedroom wall. The lady had it framed. I think there really is more to life than money. The cost of everything and the value of nothing comes to mind. The value being to bring joy to someone.

I do appreciate there are those who would profit from kindness but I think you can get a feeling for who's genuine.
 
Well done John.

I used to have pictures professionally framed but these days I just buy off the shelf ones from ASDA.
 
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Sometimes I get people who are alongside me when I'm photographing if I would send them a photo. It's happened a couple of times at Bempton. On my recent visit, one young man from SE Asia somewhere asked if he could take a mobile shot of my LCD screen of puffins. I said he could. I enlarged the photo for him. I looked away to speak to someone. He left. He must have used the toggle for the LCD screen photos because it took me ages to get rid of four photos at once rather than one as it was before he took his shots. I've also given a couple of full size steam loco shots via Email.. At Bempton middle-aged couple on holiday from Australia looked at my LCD shots of Gannets with a chick. I've posted them on here. She only had her mobile. Some days later got a message on my Flickr l asking if I'd mind sending her a couple to frame for home.. I did that along with a couple of Puffins. About 5MB size. Tbh. I have wondered if I should be doing that . One day my wife had a friend round and she saw my Barn Owl photo framed on the living room wall. She asked if she could buy a print for her mother's 98th birthday coming up soon as she loved owls. I did have another large photo of it printed and if it was to bring some happiness to a 98 year old then that's good and I gave it to her. She still wanted to pay but I didn't want that. I also gave one of a Red Kite, I'd taken taken at Gigrin Farm, to the receptionist at my opticians who had them visit her garden out in the sticks and her 7 year old daughter loved them. She told me how overjoyed the child was having it framed and hanging on her bedroom wall. The lady had it framed. I think there really is more to life than money. The cost of everything and the value of nothing comes to mind. The value being to bring joy to someone.

I do appreciate there are those who would profit from kindness but I think you can get a feeling for who's genuine.
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I hear where you are coming and each circumference will be different and handled as appropriate on a case by case basis.

When we went Elmley Marshes in March there was another couple on the evening walk and they asked me for a couple of images.

They gave each of their email addresses.....in advance of doing so I emailed to say I will be sending them as soon as I could. However, one email 'returned' non deliverable and the I got no response at all from the other one :(. Suffice to say in this instance I did not send them.

Going back approx15 years I was photographing a local village cricket match to test my methodology, after the match one the team asked me I would photograph his team with his much loved dog. I did so and printed a couple, hand dropped off at his home

I learned that the dog was akin to the team mascot and it died a few weeks later.

PS I rarely photograph people, other than the odd street candid. So, such a request was outside my comfort zone but I was delighted to have done so.
 
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