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Daily Archives: 3 March 2012

The South Wales Echo credited me for a photo I didn’t take

Posted on 3 March 2012 by Geoff

tl;dr I was congratulated on Twitter for having a picture of mine published in the South Wales Echo. I was first angry that they hadn’t asked permission, and then confused that I didn’t recognise the picture. It was in fact taken by a Twitter user who has my username in his bio. Derp. Continue reading →

Posted in Cardiff, Photography | Tagged journalism

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