{dump this?} 1015. If not attaching an IC alert can hurt a photographer’s reputation, why wouldn’t photographers always add an “IC” to the “TTG” label?

Because with many kinds of photography, photos without any alerts can seem more impressive to viewers.

{But TTG photographers should use “IC” all they want, knowing that there is never any harm in erring on the side of caution, never a danger of over-alerting viewers.}

Viewers rarely object when photographers explain the backstory of a photograph, assuming that the explanation is easy for viewers to skip past.

In fact, for some TTG photographers, the nature of their favorite subject matter may mean that most or all of their photographs need an “IC” to meet P8.

A common example would be photographers who mainly photograph animals of typically wild species in less-than-fully-wild conditions but those conditions are not visible to the viewer.

Using an “IC” on a large percentage of their photos is not going to diminish their work, because all other TTG photographers shooting the same subject matter and publishing their photos in the same context are likely to be attaching “IC” alerts to their TTG-labeled photos too.

It is easy to use one TTG label to cover entire groups of photographs