This is a new one for me - I just got an image rejected at a site I won't name and the reason was "Please remove Model Release."  The shot is a simple close up of my sons legs and feet in the green grass.  Fun image that is similar to thousands of others out there, right?

Okay, but why reject it and tell me to remove the model release?  I have the option of resubmitting it, but for cryin' out loud - isn't that a tad harsh.  I am busting my butt to get these images up and you tell me that you want me to take that hard earned Model Release OFF? 

I'm not a hardcore professional, but I have been doing this awhile - and this just seems nitpicky to me.

Wouldn't it simply be safer (and easier for us all) to just keep the image covered by including the release, and if it never comes up . . . it never comes up?

Anyone else experience this rejection reason lately?