Journal

Notes on real photography:
licences, credits, provenance.

Short, practical reads for people who publish photography for a living. No theory you cannot use on Monday.

Building a licence trail a client will accept

What to record for every image, why agencies get asked, and how to hand a campaign over cleanly.

The visual tells that survive scrutiny, the metadata that settles the question, and why detectors alone are not enough.

Attribution formats that actually work per platform, and how to keep the credit attached to the file.

The permissions and the limits of the three libraries Photothentic searches, in plain English.

A practical routine for going from a finished caption to a licensed human photograph you can publish today.

How Content Credentials work, what Photothentic records for every image, and how to check whether a file is a photograph at all.