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A word of caution here. I am a self employed PC-Network Tec. I recently visited a customer at their home office. He is a photographer, hunter, land owner, who is disabled via cancer and has a very bad back. He sometimes can barely move. He has about 100 acres of land, I think, behind his home here in Maine. It has deer, black bear, moose and various small game. He took a picture of a black bear and posted it on a web site, which one I do not know. Someone from Massachusetts clicked on the image and retrieved GPS type information, then shared it with several dozen friends. They all drove up here, trespassed on his land, then with several packs of rather large hunting dogs, ran down this black bear and killed it. Yes it was hunting season, no they did not have his permission. He came upon them when he heard the dogs as he investigated the noise. They threatened him and let the dogs loose to intimidate him further. This man has a license to carry, he always has his 7 1/2 inch 44 magnum with him in a shoulder holster. He is a dead shot at 100 yards with it. Needless to say it was a very tense few minutes before they left. He reported them to the local game wardens, but nothing was done, as they were gone when the warden showed up, our wardens covers hundreds of square miles per officer.
My point, perhaps we as photographers should be careful not make the same mis-step, having GPS tags available on our posted images. Or tell others in the post exactly where we took the image, as at times quite a few others have showed up to photograph a rare bird when it is posted. I can think of one such instance here locally when a rare Northern Hawk Owl was spotted in Hollis Maine. Hundreds, yes hundreds came from all over New England to this one small neighborhood and family farm to image the owl. The locals were so angry, they shooed the owl away.
Just an FYI.
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Originally Posted by Steve Kaluski
