Any cedarcreeklake.com reader who thinks The Monitor's coverage this week of the Henderson County Board of Realtors' meeting that took place in mid-December looks suspiciously familiar would be really right. Imagine my shock when I opened up the newspaper's Jan. 5, 2012, issue at Chili's yesterday while waiting for a couple of friends to show up for lunch and discovered my photographs and most of a story I wrote on Page 3 of The Monitor. I was incredulous. The credit for the story was identified as a "Special to The Monitor," and the photo credits read, "Courtesy Photo." "Huh," I thought. "Special by whom and courtesy by whom?" Certainly not me, and I was pretty sure the publisher of cedarcreeklake.com who paid me to write the story and take the photographs hadn't given the rights away to a competing publication in the lake area. After I finished lunch I drove over to The Monitor's offices and went into visit general manager Susan Harrison, whom I assumed would apologize for the unauthorized use of my work. To say my expectations were misguided would be putting it mildly. Harrison told me the fault lay with Curtis Webster, president of the real estate organization, whom she said offered her photographs when she told him The Monitor wouldn't be able to cover the meeting. It's true Webster asked me if I would share photographs with The Monitor and the Athens Daily Review because neither newspaper sent reporters to what turned out to be an informative, interesting meeting featuring Texas State Rep. Lance Gooden and Tarrant Regional Water District reservoir manager Buckley Butler.