Confidence, Resignation or Apathy?

I am not certain it is confidence, resignation or apathy that originated this but I am fairly certain all photographers (and digital/print artists in general) go through various emotional phases in attempting to protect their work.  Not only from online thieves who would crop out your information, remove the metadata and print themselves their own version of your work they love, but those social media outlets who would love to call all of your content their own as well.  Argh.  

I have been shooting now since Nov 22, 2013, almost 13 months.  Now, within the last 24 hours, I finally reached a milestone where I dropped the huge watermark across the middle of any new images posted up in favor of something small in the lower right; I really need to work up my own little logo soon.  It pains me, but then I suppose if something is worthy enough of thievery then at least someone likes it enough to partake in it...?  That is a very sore attempt at being accommodating, but, well...yeah.  Of course I'd greatly prefer someone pay me for my work if it resonates with them sufficiently to want it near them but I don't have a portal set up yet.  It does feel wonderful to have people asking!!!  I do see some graphic artists offering up smaller, lower-res/lower-quality versions of their work for free so I might look into something like that at some point but it doesn't strike me as something that would work as well for photographers. We'll see. 

Let's try this...for an IT Director I am such a noobit...! 

(Dhaulagiri removed temporarily)

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