How your images can become an orphan work

very quickly

What is an orphan work?





a few years ago I posted a blog entry called Glorious Colours in Nature, 

and included this image of  some  peacock feathers I had scanned.  The image to the left is the print out of the original blog entry when my background was black. 

I did a reverse image search and it's all over the flipping place,being used on book covers, blog entries,