So apparently there are consequences for those who take photos that look too good.  Yahoo & Target have teamed up to provide online uploads of digital photos and print them out for customers - with the option of in store pick up vs snail mail.  (This is actually the service that flickr uses for allowing members to print their images out.)  There are numerous services such as this one, available all over the internet. 

Well Target - along with most others, I'd assume - decided to hold one woman's photos and not sell them to her.  The reason?  She didn't have a copyright release for them.  Why didn't she have a copyright release?  They were her pictures!!!   She was even in one of the shots.  But no matter.

I can understand corporations attempting to protect themselves from legal action by true copyright holders, but this seems a bit extreme.  Digital cameras, in the hands of many an aspiring photog have been yielding amazing results in recent years.  Apparently as we get better and better, we may have to resort to printing our own at home, and being bitten by ridiculous ink costs, instead of the economical and simple process of using a professional printing shop.