The wedding photography website of a Dorset piano seller was swamped Tuesday (April 5, 2011) by UK professional photographers checking to see if it used their images. The site of Affinity Wedding Photography, of 23 Arcadia Road, Christchurch, Dorset BH23 2JF, was found to be marketing a wedding photography service to the public, using a portfolio of images plagiarized from more than half-a-dozen professional wedding photographers. The alarm was first raised by wedding blogger the RockN’Roll Bride, after another photographer alerted her to the use of her photos. All unauthorized images were subsequently removed from the site the same day, though no explanation or apology was offered.
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The owner of the website concerned has sent us a communication, including the following points:
“[...]Your facts are completely incorrect. I was not ‘using a portfolio of images plagiarized from more than half-a-dozen professional wedding photographers’. The images concerned were in a completely separate category to all my own images and if anybody had read the relevant text to any image they would realise that they were not mine.
I did give an explanation and full apology to Kathryn Williams [the RockN'Roll Bride] [...].
I had hoped to draw a line under this whole event and indeed had agreed with Kathryn Williams that we would do so. [...]
I would appreciate you passing these facts on to anyone else concerned.”