Just heard about this one found on the Fred Meyer photo website. I have two photos on this ad, the one of the bride and groom in the red book, and the little girl with the balloon. Fun!

Here’s one of my photos being used on one of those domain parking pages you get when you type the wrong address in. This is my daughter Lindsey playing photographer model for me. It’s a popular one

And this is the original which links to its page on iStock.

My nephew Hayden is getting quite famous! This is the second time a photo of him has been found in use. This time was by a friend of his that was traveling and happened to see this ad in a Sky Mall magazine. Here is the same ad online:

Here’s the original (before they flipped and cropped it):

This one is of my nephew, Hayden, who is an avid street hockey player. A friend of his was in Boise at a Steelhead hockey game and while looking through the program was shocked to see his friend Hayden in a full page ad! You just never know where they’ll pop up!

And here is the original on iStockphoto.com:

I actually found this one myself It’s kind of fun to see it and think, hey! That’s one of mine! It’s being used as a cover for an e-book the company is selling.

And here is the original at iStockphoto.com:

I got this sweet and fun email today from Christina, one of my favorite clients. It made my day so I just had to share:

“Cindy,

I just wanted to let you know of another sighting! A friend of ours was looking for airline tickets on cheaptickets.com and up popped a photo of Dustin and I. So, I checked it out myself and sure enough there it was…the pictures rotate through slowly or you can refresh the browser on that page and eventually you will come to an ad with the photo of Dustin and I in the grass where I am laughing (one of my fav’s).

I just wanted to let you know how much I enjoy your photography. I often find myself at your website showing people how amazing you are, and just browsing all your inspirational artwork! We are truly thankful to you for capturing such precious moments in our lives. I hope to contact you soon for another family photo-session! The children are growing up so quickly that it is time to capture a new phase! I will finally graduate school in May so our busy lives should calm down a bit…maybe we can get together early this summer!

Congrats on all of your accomplishments lately…you truly have such an inspiring gift!
Christina and family”

Here is the original on iStockphoto.com. Makes me smile just to look at it and remember how much fun that day was:

People are always asking me where my commercial work gets used. I usually don’t know because the stock photo agencies deal with the licensing, and they could literally be used anywhere in the world. Out of the 11,000+ licenses sold on over 1,000 of my images in the last couple of years, I personally only have samples of a small handful of sightings. I’ve heard of a few more, but haven’t got a sample shot of them yet. If you see a pic you think might have been taken by me, send me a sample, link, or a snapshot of it so I can share it on here. Here are some that I know of:

Ever wonder where the picture frame companies get the pics they put in their frames? Yep! Stock photography agencies. This picture frame with my work in it was spotted at a TJ Max store in Massachusetts by a friend with her camera phone.

This one of my daughter Lindsey doing her Scorpion move has been licensed many times. This licensed use was for a yoga products company.

This cute family was the choice of an advertising agency to use on a poster promoting Columbia River Bank.”

This one was so fun to find out about. My daughter Ariel (the model), actually considered studying photography at this school since they are very respected in the photography world. Here she is in an online ad promoting them!

This Angus cow photo of mine was used on a cattle website. The designer added the green lush background.