This is nuts. You better start taking crappy pictures...

AP article - ...since the shots seemed to have been taken by a professional, printing the pictures might be a copyright violation.

...That leads to some awkward moments at photo desks when customers' images get barred for essentially looking too good.

...In the printing labs for the Kodak EasyShare Gallery, the photo Web site formerly known as Ofoto, professionally taken pictures are placed on the walls to remind technicians of such images' telltale signs, such as school photos and stylish backdrops in posed pictures of children.

That is sad because I can easily take a professional photo that meets those standards, and I have, and I won’t be able to get it printed so I would be stuck. How can I create a business or just simply take professional family photos?

I don’t use studios much anymore because I can take just as good shots myself. If I do there is a good chance I won’t find someone to print them.

I want to be able to take photos upload them to Wal-Mart and get them printed in an hour and go pick them up.

I want to be able to take photos for friends and family to save them money on professional studio shots.

I should be able to take a picture and have it printed by a print shop. But it looks like the next step for people is to get a good photo printer which means less money for places that print photos like Wal-Mart and other online places and more hassle for the amateur photographer.

What if I want to be a professional photographer and use a company like Kodak Easyshare or Wal-Mart for my prints?

There are no standards to what proves you own a photo you have taken. In the past if you had the negative it was assumed you own the photo. But now what?

Last fall, Bill Wolfson of Columbus, Ohio, went to Walgreen’s to order Christmas cards with a photo that he had taken in his backyard with an eight-megapixel Canon and retouched with Photoshop.

Walgreen’s phoned Wolfson with the "too professional" rejection. He responded that he was flattered but insisted that he was a "serious amateur" who took the shot himself.

He pointed out that he had signed the photo in the corner so it could be used on his Christmas cards.

The photo supervisor wouldn’t budge. How did she know Wolfson was really the photographer and hadn’t forged the name on the processing order?

Not until Wolfson went into the store with his driver’s license was everything resolved.