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Gallery owner arrested for forged and stolen Ansel Adams photographs

Oct 20, 2022 by Alex Baker Add Comment

A Michigan gallery owner was arrested by the FBI for counts of theft and forgery of famous photographs by Ansel Adams. The gallery owner allegedly defrauded mostly elderly clients when they trusted her to sell the photographs on their behalf. Altogether the combined value of the works is estimated to be around the region of $1.6 million.

Wendy Halsted Beard was arrested on Friday after police raided her home in Birmingham, Michigan. She was charged with mail and wire fraud and accused of orchestrating a scheme involving photographs that she received on consignment.

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Sony adds anti-theft crypto signature tech to in-camera images

Aug 12, 2022 by Alex Baker 1 Comment

Sony has revealed a brand new in-camera way of stopping your photos from being stolen. The feature will be coming to the Sony a7 IV and will add a crypto-signature to images at the time of shooting. The feature also alerts you when images are manipulated.

This will only be available to corporate clients upon rollout, however, it will have a variety of useful applications beyond just obvious image theft.

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Dave Williams is an accomplished travel photographer, writer, and best-selling author from the UK. He is also a photography educator and published Aurora expert. Dave has traveled extensively in recent years, capturing stunning images from around the world in a modified van. His work has been featured in various publications and he has worked with notable brands such as Skoda, EE, Boeing, Huawei, Microsoft, BMW, Conde Nast, Electronic Arts, Discovery, BBC, The Guardian, ESPN, NBC, and many others.

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