
Giving Credit Where It Is Due.I have been a member of DA for over three years. I admit that when I first began, I did not give credit to the stock accounts/websites where I found my sources. However, I have since learned my lesson. Stock photographers give photo manipulators like myself the necessary ingredients to create, invent, imagine, conceptualize, and transcend. It is not just about giving credit, but recognizing the stock as an art piece in itself.
On occasion, I have noticed a number of photomanipulations being featured as Daily Deviations that give absolutely no mention of where they got their stock. I am not criticizing the fact that they were chosen because t