User blog comment:Xilinoc/Ch. 629 - Gate of the Sun/@comment-24726378-20150604150031/@comment-5398287-20150604173230

Nope, plenty of images have watermarks on them, but only because cropping them out would result in key details of the image being lost. Thankfully, the raw site I use has been uploading high-quality raws lately, so those won't be there forever.