NotoriousStock

Hi everyone! I hope you have all had a wonderful year! I randomly started thinking about DA today, and was thinking about how last year I brought all of my stock back for the month of December, and thought why not do it again? Please be patient while I work on getting everything un-stored. There is a possibility that around Christmas time I might even add some new stock for the week of Christmas, but I haven't really decided yet. If any of my lovely watchers is feeling generous and wants to donate a 1 month Core subscription to me that would really help me in uploading new stock. UPDATE: Thank you FantasyLost for the one month Core Membership!

Please, as always make sure you read my rules before using my stock. 

Also yes, you can save my stock to your computer and use it after I have removed my stock. I just ask that you still credit me with a link to my main page. (Do NOT link directly to the image, since it will be removed on January 1st)

Hello everyone! I am back and have unstored my stock for the month of December! I miss the community here, but still stand by my decision to remove my stock from the site. However, I do want everyone here to know that I have appreciated your support over the years, so I am giving you all access to my stock until the end of December! With that said, make sure that you are following my rules and keeping track of which stock you got from me, because if you decide to use it after December you won't be able to find it, but you are still expected to credit and link me! If anyone has any questions feel free to ask! Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays watchers!

So after much thought and deliberation I have decided to stop offering stock. I tried to come up with a solution that I felt would work for me, and all of you, but unfortunately I'm just too busy to worry about trying to enforce my rules. I know this isn't fair for all you loyal watchers, but for now it's just how it's got to be.

For those of you who haven't followed my status updates, there have been a lot of issues with following my rules. This includes not crediting me, not linking me, using images on sites where they are not allowed(Howrse), not following my rules for commissions, and portraying horses in a negative and graphic way.

What really sent me over the edge today, and made me decide not to switch to the point system, was an owner of one of the horses I have stock of, found an image of her horse online and the work showed her horse skinny with arrows stuck in it, and bloody. Needless to say she was very upset and that was not a conversation I wanted to have with a past client...

So I knows it's a bummer and many of you will be upset and sad I'm sure... But you never know. I have quit and come back before, so maybe in a year or two I'll change my mind and come back.

For those of you who have already saved an image to use, you may do so, but please make sure you read my rules. You may credit me here, or at facebook.com/spiritlakephotogr….

Also if you follow my Facebook page and want to use any of my work that is posted there you can message me there and we will discuss it.

Hi everyone! So most of my loyal followers know that for the last few weeks I have been thinking about either removing all of my stock, or charging points for it. This is due to the fact that lately the majority of people using my stock haven't been following my rules. This includes things like not giving proper credit, using my stock on sites where is isn't allowed, and the biggest issue which is using my stock for commissions without checking with me first and giving me a 10% cut, which is in my rules.

Honestly, I've gotten to the point where I just want to deactivate my account and be done with it, but I do love seeing what people make with my work and I do enjoy buying my own commissions here and there to help support other artists. I should also mention that any money or points I do make always go back into the community, so I don't actually profit off this, but I'm really okay with that, especially if I'm getting some great artwork out of it.

So, after chatting with a few of you I have decided to try charging points, rather than just deleting everything. Since it will take me awhile to go through all my images, I am going to put them all in storage and will add them back as I update each of them.

I put up a poll so that I can figure out how many points to charge, so please take a moment to vote on that is you haven't already. I will likely start to make this change later today.

Hi guys!! As most of you know I made a folder of images that will be deleted and I wanted to give you all a heads up that I will be going through that folder next week and will start deleting photo's. I will be checking each one as I delete them and if they have been used at least once, and have more than 10 favs, I won't delete them, as I know there are a few images in there that I added on accident. The rest will be deleted. I have gotten a lot of messages about this and I know you guys want me to leave them but here's the thing, I have been a member of DeviantArt for over 9 years now, and have been practicing photography for 10 years and in that time I feel I have progressed a lot. I have upgraded my equipment a few times now and I don't want my old photo's to be used as a representation of my work. So I do know a lot of you like them, and want them to be left alone, but I honestly can't stand to look at a lot of them...

If you have saved any of these images please make sure when you upload them you still give me credit, and if you see fit you can include that the image is no longer available for use. There are still photo's that will be left of each of the horses I am deleting photo's of and I would rather people use those photo's as I think they are better images overall.

Thank you all for understanding!