mariaksteinsson

Why do people keep stealing my stuff??  I have no idea why some people seem to think that my photos are "stock".  They are clearly marked as copyright, underneath each and every one of them, and I have never said that anyone could use them.  Some people have asked me beforehand and I have given permission to a selected few but I keep finding out about someone using my photos without my permission. Last year I quit uploading my photos here because of this.  Now I have deleted all my photos from my acount because this clearly is not the right place to display your photos.  I do hope that all of you people displaying your artwork here, or anywh

I have been getting a lot of enquiries from people asking if they can use my photos for their art work.  I am honored that people want to use my work but I do not give permission for this.  My work is copyright and being exhibited and sold around the world.  Some people do not even ask for permission and just assume that they can use my photos and unfortunately these people have had to delete their work because they are breaking the law of copyright.  Alot of people have no idea about copyright stuff and are not even familiar with it which is not good at all because this is after all our work we are talking about and for some of us our actual

Latetly I have been spending some time in my home country, Iceland.  It has been wonderful and I have been going a lot into the beautiful wilderness to take photos.  I will be uploading some of them for you to see!