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I was on my way to Cebu for a school field trip last week. As usual, I was taking photos of the little details of  the beautiful Iloilo Airport. I was taking pictures of the LCD screens while waiting in line at the check-in counters when, again, I noticed something eerily familiar.

The display of an LCD TV at the Iloilo Airport with the 'suspect' photo at the lower right corner

To my utter disbelief , one of the rotating photos on the LCD display looked just like one of my airport photos I posted on the internet! I briefly mentioned it to a classmate, Noel, who was with me but  I soon brushed aside the thought that someone again used my photo off the internet without permission. The airport should be able to take photos of their own building! Perhaps the angle was just similar?

Since we had free time while waiting for our flight, I decided to stare at the LCD display again. just to make sure. The display, which was all over the airport, was showing a test broadcast of OMI IP TV and was rotating three photos of the Iloilo Airport in one corner, one of which I suspected to be mine.

I invited Noel to stare more closely at the rotating pictures and try to look for my trademark “rdbd” watermark on the suspect photo. That should clear things up.

What happened next was pure amusement.

My photo posted online

The photo was mine! The watermark was right there on the displayed picture albeit too small to be noticed. It turns out that the airport personnel couldn’t supply photos of their own building.

“At least they didn’t crop out the watermark,” I said laughingly.

But seriously, whoever copied the photo off the internet should know better.

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