Rottnest Island from 5,000ft.

5,000ft view of Perth.

The results of the Epson International Pano Awards are in and not ony did I win the Open Built/Environment award but also got Runner/up overall – best result for a photo contest I’ve had.

Beautiful day over at Rottnest Yesterday.

The mouth of the De Grey River in the Pilbara.

Aerial shot of Elephant Rock, Kununurra taken Feb. 2020.

What’s it like dealing with Andrew Davey of Davey Real Estate after discovering he has been using your image for one of their adds and not paying.  Well it took him 7 weeks to reply to my first message then he claims that the Facebook page where the add appears is not theirs even though it has Davey Real Estate all over it, plus the add is not theirs even though it has Davey printed all over it. Then he gives me the contact details of a third party  and tells me not to contact him again.  When I explained that legally he is responsible for the add and their Facebook page he then backtracks and says yes, he his responsible!  He then has the  arrogance to tell me I’m not allowed to charge what I want for my images and he will tell me what my photos are worth. Been 9 weeks now and payment still hasn’t been made!  His contact details are ph. 0411 110 777    email.   [email protected]

Kirsta Docherty is the woman who works for Davey Real Estate and is the one who stole this photo from my site, the reason I use the term “stole” is because that’s the term she used, here’s her quote “I did not intentionally steal”.  So she stole the photo, got paid to make the add, paid for the add and got paid by Davey Real Estate to do this but it took her 7 weeks to contact me and she refuses to pay for the image. Her number is o412 424 778.

People stealing photos from photographers is a big problem for this industry but Davey Real Estate has really taken the cake for the worst behaviour   I’ve experienced. This is an add that Phil Pope from Davey Real Estate paid Facebook to promote him using one of my Trigg Beach aerials. I contacted Phil Pope to remove the image back in the beginning of May but no reply. I then contacted him again, still no reply and the image wasn’t removed by the date requested. It has now been 2 months and after dozens of messages and calls Phil Pope has still not returned my messages and he has refused to pay  the tax invoice I sent him.