Comments on: June’s Best Facebook Group Photos

By: De'Jon Dae Howerton

De'Jon Dae Howerton — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 10:11:00 +0000

you’re absolutely right… reason why I haven’t answered is because I HONESTLY DON’T KNOW… as I told J.J. I’m trying to track it… the only thing I have is a folder on my computer that says “HI DEF”and inside that folder it says “Paid Stock”… I checked my main sites which are Istock, Stockxchange it’s not from neither… I honestly don’t know… and at best what I can do and have been trying to do since I’ve been getting smashed is trying to clear my name. Again… I do photography, retouching and photomanipulation for a living. I have ABSOLUTELY NO NEED TO STEAL…

By: Steve Demmitt

Steve Demmitt — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 01:42:00 +0000

Ok fair enough. Now which stock site did you purchase it from? You deny any wrong doing yet cant supply the stock photography site. Everyone has asked you repeatedly for this information and yet you never answer. Sounds very sketchy on your part.

By: J.J. Batte

J.J. Batte — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 00:36:00 +0000

Thank you for all the support, guys. I emailed De’Jon the day of this feature, and have yet to hear back from him with which stock photography site he purchased my image. I shot the original picture back in December of 2009 for MFEST and RD Sport and still own the rights to the image; the aforementioned parties were able to use the images for promotional material, but did not own the rights. I never released any of the images from the set to a stock photography site, so I am very curious to hear which site it was that sold De’Jon the picture.

Thanks again everyone!
John Batte
http://www.facebook.com/johnbattephotography

By: De'Jon Dae Howerton

De'Jon Dae Howerton — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 15:38:00 +0000

1. I didn’t steal ANYTHING! I PURCHASED that Red BMW pic on a stock site. 2. I don’t like how all of you ADULTS , without any certainty jump on me when not know any of the story. I wasn’t contacted and asked anything I was accused of stealing and INSTANTLY without any questioning I’m a thief. The picture was purchased LITERALLY 2 YEARS AGO from a stock site. The person who put it up there is the thief not me. I just brought it and decided to use it this year. I don’t like people shitting on my name I work very hard on building it up. Fstoppers again I appreciate everything and for the photographer I apologize for any misunderstanding. Again I STOLE NOTHING!

By: Philip Tieu

Philip Tieu — Wed, 04 Jul 2012 09:20:00 +0000

What is LC and what is this Kraken?! Seriously…

By: mingyang sun

mingyang sun — Wed, 04 Jul 2012 06:15:00 +0000

LOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE the fire photo!

By: William Stern

William Stern — Wed, 04 Jul 2012 03:33:00 +0000

LC for life!

By: Gabriel Milori

Gabriel Milori — Wed, 04 Jul 2012 03:31:00 +0000

Praise thee, Jaron of Schneider, for thou hath taketh away the mistakes of a stranger from afar.

Quit stealing photos people. The LC isn’t always this nice. Neither is our Kraken.

By: Steve Demmitt

Steve Demmitt — Wed, 04 Jul 2012 03:27:00 +0000

You have restored my faith in humanity…

By: John Zhang

John Zhang — Wed, 04 Jul 2012 03:05:00 +0000

No receipt from said “stock photo site” no email confirmation from said “stock photo site”… Enough said?