DeviantART is weird.
I love the art gallery feel to it. I adore the fact that people who's work I never would have seen otherwise is in a handy, readily accessible format that I can just stumble across and brightens my day.
I find it a bit unsettling that people can just "borrow" that work without consulting the artist.
And finally I find it uber strange that anyone at all would be interested in my photos, let alone the odd shock of randomly browsing someone's favourites and finding a picture of myself right along side a bunch of shots of half or entirely naked women ranging from the artistic to the obscene.
I guess I had never considered that when someone favourites an image its then in a whole folder on their page, even having said folder myself.
I guess thats the reason I have never really posted a lot of my photography on this site. I already get plenty irked when someone uses my photography without crediting me with it.
Of course its another matter if I'm hired for a job, I don't have any particular need to retain rights to the images if I'm being paid to make them for someone else.
It just means a lot more when all of your business is word of mouth that people make the photographer's name readily available if its not already watermarked.
Anyway, thats my own little grudge to nurse.

This might mark the beginning of me really starting to put my work out there..