They done it again

As I've mentioned a few times over the past year I really like taking digital pictures. Actually, taking pictures is pretty easy; composing an image, that's another story. And I've taken many a digital picture over the past seven years, enough to fill at least a dozen CD-Rs (about 8.5 gigabytes worth of images). While most of my pictures remain unseen, there are a few that I've taken around the building I work in that have seen the light of day either on our website or in departmental or school publications. One picture I've taken has become the identifying image for both our department and school, and was the one used on the cover of the invitations sent out a few years ago when our building was being rededicated following an impressive yet crappy renovation project. Most of the time my pictures are used without a credit for me. That's what happens when you take pictures on company time. But in the past year I've had pictures of mine used for various reasons with my name as the credit. Wow! It's nice to see your name listed in the photographers credits within the magazine your school publishes. It almost makes me feel like I know what I'm doing! But a couple of days ago I was looking through the newly published calendar the campus' public affairs office produced to give to donors only to discover that one of my pictures was in there (with no credit of course). What gets me is that the only place they could've obtained the picture was from our website; hence they went with an undersized, 72 dpi JPG image for use in a four-color process printing job. Maybe I should put some contact info on our website for people on campus who'd like or need images for publications. I don't mind seeing my pictures used in publications whatsoever, but damn, at least give me a credit.