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Archive for February 2010
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TODAY’S PHOTOGRAPHY PARAPHERNALIA . . .
HERE TODAY….
GONE TOMORROW
If you’ve decided to put your photographic talent into the stock photo industry, remember this solid principle: No one will ever invent a substitute for pictures.
Because photography is like so many products in our gadgetry world, it’s always going to undergo improvement. Think of the first computer games.
Today’s amazing technological device is tomorrow’s souvenir. It wasn’t that the product was based on a faulty concept; it was just that an industrial society moves on and the constant element is c h a n g e.
The one element you can count on is that someone, somewhere right at this moment, is inventing a new way to take photos, a new way to deliver them, a new way to sell them, a new way to preserve them for posterity.
In the marketing field, I stumbled on an email in January (last month) that led to a website where a photobuyer, full figure on plain background, was announcing that her publishing company was embarking on a publishing venture of three new book topics in April: wildflowers, children’s pets, and surfing. The deadline to submit was February 15th. She promised that payment for pictures was far above the usual microstock payment and in line with standard rates.
This new approach to finding photos puts the burden on someone else and saves her time and, of course, money. The selection of photos will be probably by an editorial committee through in-house light boxes. Look for other small house publishers to improve the system.
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Anne Polsky
AARP The Magazine
Photo Dept.
601 E Street N.W.
Washington, DC 20049
Tel: 202.434.6844
apolsky[at]aarp[dot]org
reports that
Tish King
Rebecca Roth
Sari Henry
Miriam Stein
are no longer at The AARP Magazine
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Lisa Munniksma
is now
Photo Acquisition Editor
HOBBY FARMS Magazine
2008 Mercer Road Lexington KY 40511
1 859 260 9800
muuiksma[at]bowtieinc[dot]com
replaces
Karen Keb Acevedo is no longer editor at
HOBBY FARMSMagazine
2008 Mercer Road Lexington KY 40511
1 859 260 9800
kkeb[at]bowtieinc[dot]com
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Lori Oretti
617 536 3400
Now replaces:
Glenn McGibbon
Advertising Mgr
CM Commnications
29 Newbury St.
Boston MA
gmsgibbon[at]cmcommunications[dot]com
617 536 3400
Note that we don't include North American travelers because many of our members live in North America. Only travelers going abroad will be listed. Thanks
Name: Rachel Strevey
Phone: 4029811693
Email: rachel[at]chelfoto[dot]net
dates: 07/31/2010- 08/06/2010
destination: Haiti
Comments: I travel abroad annually and have been doing so for over a decade. My most recent destinations have been Rome and Barcelona and this year I am headed to volunteer in Haiti.
Rachel Strevey
www.ChelFoto.Net
Chicago, IL
402.981.1693
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Name: James Mejuto
Phone: 386-847-9501
Email: jamesmejuto[at]ymail[dot]com
dates#1: June1-June7th, 2010
destination London
Comments: I will be shooting stock of London and a few outlining towns.
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Name: Chuck Rydlewski
Phone: 630.790.2692
Email: slph[at]sbcglobal[dot]net
date: 2-26-10 to 3-5-10
destination: Cancun
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Name: D. Holden Bailey
Phone: 513-425-0538
Email: dholdenb[at]aol[dot]com
dates: 2-20-10/3-5-10
destination#1: Marquesas & Tuamotu Islands
dates#2: 3-5-10/3-8-10
destination#2: Tahiti, Bora-Bora
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Name: Jim Caldwell
Phone: 727 771-9868
Email: jamesfc[at]tampabay.rr[dot]com
dates#: 3/15- 3/25/2010
destination: Costa Rica
Comments: Indigenous Village tour in southern Costa Rica near the Panamanian border.
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GET SEEN -- Five ways to make sure your photography stands out. Scott Bourne: “Everyone – and I mean everyone has a camera. So what can you do to stand out from the crowd? If you’ve followed my advice to develop a style and fill a niche, you should have a pretty good idea who your audience is." Here are five tips.
SOURCE: Scott Bourne ; FotoFocus. http://photofocus.com/2010/02/19/five-ways-to-make-sure-your-photography-stands-out/
PHOTO: SCOTT BOURNE
TAKEAWAY: THE NATURE PRO Scott Bourne reminds us that making yourself a nature photographer doesn’t mean photographing ALL nature. (“The master of none.”) But selecting a niche that is meaningful to you in nature, learniung all about that niche –and gong for it!
LEARN THE BASICS -- More photography knowledge? try these free MIT courses - Have you been yearning to step up your photography knowledge but haven’t been able to afford the required college classes? The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) allows for a large portion of the materials from previous courses to be accessed online by anyone interested in learning. Currently, there are over 1800 courses available, some of which are centered around photography. http://www.yourphototips.com/2010/02/16/want-more-photography-knowledge-try-these-free-mit-courses/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+YourPhotoTips+%28Your+Photo+Tips%29
SLOW MOTION -- Proof that bees do fly. Shooting at over 2,000 frames per second, Time Warp's high-speed camera showed a bee fervently flapping its wings. The fascination with slow motion photography has a long history -- about as long as the history of photography itself.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/pictureshow/2010/02/super_slowmo_photography.html
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Announcement
WHERE ARE YOU? -- Nystrom Herff-Jones Education Division is looking for the following photographers: Adrian Masters, Ann Bancroft, David Robert, Dennis Hallinan, George White, Jacques Jangoux, Michael Hoare, Gines Quinero Santiago, Richard Simpson, Robert Buffington, Steve Elmore, Sydney Freelance, and Sylvain Grandadam.
If you have information about any of these photographers/artists that you would like to share, contact Chris Nelson, editor, at ccnelson[at]herffjones[dot]com or 773-279-3297..
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DON’T READ THIS -- Top 10 ways to make sure you’ll never be a pro. - If you really want to thwart any chance you might have of becoming a pro photographer, here, presented in traditional count-down order, are 10 ways to make sure you’ll never turn your dream into a profession. SOURCE: Paul Burwell http://www.paulburwell.com/blog/2010/02/top-10-ways-to-make-sure-youll-never-be-a-pro/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Wildshots+%28Wildshots%29
TAKEAWAY: Not everyone wants to be a pro, nevertheless, these are some good pointers.
SHOOTING COMMERCIAL -- The best-selling popular photography subjects - what are they? There are topics that are more in demand than others. Whether you decide to compete against the many photographers who put models in suits and hold clipboards or focus on a passion that allows you to bypass the masses and fill a niche, the only way to actually generate those sales is to consistently create good pictures.
http://blogs.photopreneur.com/the-best-selling-popular-photography-subjects?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PhotopreneurBlog+%28Photopreneur+Blog%29
GET IT IN WRITING -- Writing Your Photography Marketing Plan - A marketing plan is a dynamic document that acts as a guideline for all of your marketing efforts. As such, it’s a valuable tool for avoiding “pitifully poor performance.” SOURCE: Matthew Kauffmann; BlackStar Rising
http://rising.blackstar.com/writing-your-photography-marketing-plan.html
http://news.google.com/news/search?aq=f&um=1&cf=all&ned=us&hl=en&q=photo+business
TWENTY CANDLES– Happy Birthday! Photoshop Hits Twenty. The software product that redefined creativity in the digital age, turned 20 on Feb. 19, 2010. Around the world, Photoshop fans are celebrating the impact their favorite software has had across photography, art, design, publishing and commerce. In the United States, the National Association of Photoshop Professionals (NAPP) will
be hosting... http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Adobe-Photoshop-Hits-bw-969994560.html?x=0&.v=1
TAKEAWAY: Does that mean in one more year, Adobe Photoshop will be a mature adult? (21). Of course if Photoshop wants to appear as an adult, Adobe needs only to Photoshop an extra candle onto the cake.
GOING GREEN -- Company announces green disposal of photo processing equipment - AAA Imaging is offering green disposal services for all products relating to photo processing, such as film processors, printers, paper processors, analog and digital minilabs, photo kiosks, dye-sub and inkjet printers and color copiers. The company does not accept items that contain liquid, biological, or radiological wastes. SOURCE: Jennifer Kruger; NewsLine http://pmanewsline.com/2010/02/20/aaa-imaging-announces-green-disposal-of-photo-processing-equipment/
TAKEAWAY: Thanks to an observant company.
Kwaku Alston Adapts His Site for iPhones – Learn another way a photographer is using iPhone technology to market his work to clients. SOURCE: Jacqueline Tobin PhotoDistrict NEWS
http://www.pdnonline.com/pdn/content_display/features/pdn-online/e3ia3e3c4472acac5d9a3a436d7e9411105
CHANGES AT CORBIS -- Corbis simplifies rights managed licensing model - Corbis is making changes to its online calculator for rights managed images in an effort to make licensing simpler. Rajiv Jain, CTO and SVP/General Manager (That’s a lot of titles for one person…) said Corbis has reinvented the rights managed licensing model and “brought the RM price calculator into the internet age”. http://www.fastmediamagazine.com/?p=4192
THE WAY WE ARE At the Olympics we are seeing the new phenomenon of self-evidence photography. “I was there. Here’s proof.” And why not? In the opening day of the parade of the Olympiads, the athletes had as many flashing cameras as the audience. taking a picture of the event. And this brings the question: “Does experiencing an event without photographing it render more value to the person than snapping away with your camera?”
Hint: Is the fish story more entertaining to the fisherperson than the actual picture of the catch itself.?
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WHAT’S YOURS IS OURS -- In the UK: The Digital Economy Bill ( Section 42 sections 16a, 16b, 16c enable ad hoc regulation ) is now expected to become law within the next 6 weeks. It introduces orphan works usage rights, which - unless amended, which HMG says it will not - will allow the commercial use of any photograph whose author cannot be identified through a suitably negligent search. That is potentially about 90% of the photos on the internet.
http://copyrightaction.com/forum/uk-gov-nationalises-orphans-and-bans-non-consensual-photography-in-public
Also: http://copyrightaction.com/digital-economy-bill-with-latest-amendments
TAKEAWAY: Should you start watermarking everything? No, instead deal in a narrow niche of photo needs where you are making pictures of a subject matter that appeals to you. You'll find matching publishers out there. If your photo collection is deep enough, you’ll be partners with that publisher for a lifetime.
This message above is correctly shouting to you that now it is more imperative than ever to stop considering stock photography as an arena where you snap away at generic stock pictures with no game to market them somewhere except your favorite image gallery where you reside with millions (soon to be be billions) of other images. You should instead focus on a niche of your choosing and find buyers that match your topic area of interest and hook up with them. That’s the answer and it’s a cozy way most successful stock shooters operate. Quit making ‘stock schlock’ generic photos. Period. -RE
Microstock Money Shots – Book Review - Ellen Boughn’s book will be released later this year. It’s called ‘Microstock Money Shots – Turning Downloads into Dollars with Microstock Photography’. Lee Torrens is honored to be a small part of the book and the first to publish a review. http://www.microstockdiaries.com/microstock-money-shots.html
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Social Event or Networking?
Question: I went to a get-together with some fellow photographers. There wasn’t a speaker; it was more of a social event. But I see it as networking with my professional colleagues, and most of the talk was about work-related issues. Can I take a business-expense deduction for the cost of getting there? How about my cash contribution to the refreshments for the group?
Answer: The event does qualify. You're entitled to claim the entire cost of round-trip travel between your home and block, the party's site. For travel by bus, train, or taxi, just keep track of your fares and claim them as business expenses; for auto travel, you can claim actual expenses or a standard mileage allowance. That standard allowance for tax year 2009 is 55cents a mile. Whether you claim actual expenses or use the mileage allowance, remember to deduct parking fees and bridge, tunnel and turnpike tolls that you pay while you are on business, too.
When you travel away from home on business, you should keep records of all the expenses you have.. You can use a log, diary, notebook, or any other written record to keep track of your expenses.
Can you deduct meals ? Yes, in most cases. Go here to find out the rulrs: http://www.irs.gov/publications/p463/ch01.html#en_US_publink100033781
SOURCE: Government publications and Julian Block, Esq.
Julian Block, a former IRS agent and a tax attorney, is the author of “The Stock Photographer’s Tax Guide 2006.” For details on how to purchase this important 52-page publication: http://www.photosource.com/taxtips.php . For Julian’s tax saving and tax planning reports, go to http://www.photosource.com/products and click on “2009 Tax Tip Guides.” Julian can be reached at julianblock[at]yahoo[dot]com . http://www.julianblocktaxexpert.com phone: 1 914 834 3227 fax: 914 834 3227
PMA CONFERENCE -- Sony Introduces Compact DSLR Concept. Get a first look at Sony's pocket-sized camera. The Photo Marketing Association's 2010 conference is going on right now. Right now! And if you somehow managed to sneak in, you'd probably be taken aback by a new concept camera from Sony. A new entry in the alpha line, the compact α DSLR combines the form factor of a point-and-shoot with the visual acuity of a full-fledged DSLR. It features interchangeable lenses, an Exmor APS HD CMOS sensor, and HD quality playback and recording.
http://gear.ign.com/articles/107/1071134p1.html Source: Chris Burke ; Gear.ign
EASY ON THE EYES -- World's Best-Designed newspapers announced - Two newspapers from Germany and one from the USA have been awarded the title of World's Best-Designed for 2009, in a competition run by The Society for News Design. SOURCE: Elizabeth Redman . EditorsWeblog http://www.editorsweblog.org/newspaper/2010/02/worlds_best-designed_newspapers_announce.php
"I've dealt with PhotoSource International for over ten years. Their PhotoSourceBOOK and PhotoSourceBANK combination has, by far, been my best investment in advertising my stock photography work. I recommend Rohn Engh and his work highly when I conduct my seminars and my classes."
- Betty Sederquist Photography, Lotus CA
NOTE: It’s up to you if you want to enter any of the contests we list on this page. It’s well known that some photo contest sponsors ask for free commercial use of the winning entries (or sometimes all of the entries!). You don’t have to guess who the winner of that contest is. Don’t give up any of your rights. If your photo is good enough to win a national contest, it’s good enough to earn many dollars for you in the future. So, enter photo contests keeping this in mind.
* Some good contests this week. Let’s start off with a fabulous vanity prize. 100 Medals from the Royal Canadian Mint with your image on them. Who could ask for anything more? You could pass them out like Thomas Jefferson to the natives did ---his Jefferson Peace Medals. They want a photo or video from Canadian fans of the Olympic Games who want to show why they are the greatest fans the Canadian Olympics have. It’s important that you have a lot of friends willing to vote to that effect as well. First prize winners also get a trip for two to Ottawa on Canada Day this summer 2010 to receive the prize. Submissions open until March 21.
For more details:
http://face.mint.ca/themintdetails/eng/
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* Next we head for the Mother Country, Great Britain, for a major contest for Garden Photographer of the Year. This year they have a new format, “4 Seasons,” which allow photographers to win cash prizes throughout the year. Top prizes include £5,000 cash. First theme is Winter Beauty with a closing date of February 28th, but everyone who enters goes automatically through to the main International Garden Photographer of the Year competition with a closing date of 30th November 2010. Spring into Life: 1 March - 31 May, Insect Beauties: 1 June - 31 August, Autumn Shapes: 1 September - 30 November
For more details:
http://www.igpoty.com/competition.asp
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* The inaugural 2010 EPSON International Pano Awards is dedicated to the art of panoramic photography. The Open category is open to professional, non-professional and student photographers. The Amateur category is to non-professional and student photographers only. Subject matter Categories for both groups are 1) Nature (including landscapes) and 2) The Built Environment (including architecture). The competition is now open until April 30 with a combined prize pool of over US$13,000 in cash and prizes.
For more details:
http://www.thepanoawards.com/
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* Saving the most prestigious for last: Hasselblad 2010 Masters Awards. Each year Hasselblad awards the title of Master photographers in a range of specially defined categories. Awards are granted in recognition of the photographer’s contribution to the art of photography and photographic ability in the areas of creativity, composition, conceptual strength, and technical skill. Hasselblad is currently inviting photographers to submit photographs to be considered for the 10th annual Masters Awards. The 2010 competition will feature a new category to cover wildlife photography. One Master will be chosen for each of the eleven categories. Each of the 2010 winners, one from each category, will receive a framed diploma certifying their Masters‘ status and a presentation of their work on the Hasselblad website. Winners will also be given the use of an H4D camera, the flagship of the Hasselblad system, with which to capture images for a unique, commemorative photography book, with each winner rendering a personal interpretation of a given theme. Photographers must have been active* professionals for more than three years. To be eligible for judging, submitted pho tos must be shot using some form of medium or large format system. No 35mm photography will be accepted.
*There is also another form or version of the contest called “Up and Coming” 2010 that is open to all professional photographers and in which photographs may be shot with large format, medium format, or 35 mm digital systems. The closing date for all submissions is December 31, 2010.
For more details: http://www.hasselblad.com/masters-2010-is-open.aspx
My Story
7
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FARM WIFE NEAR DUTCH BORDER - 1957
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MY LAST SKETCH IN GERMANY - 1957
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BRATWURST SELLER - 1957
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RAIN TALK - 1957
On the outskirts of town that afternoon, I pulled my Vespa into an inviting grassy knoll on the edge of the river. A couple of big trees were on either side. A campfire was still smoldering inbetween. The campers had thrown some water on it. I set up my pup tent and sleeping bag. I would spend the night here.
Across the Rhine River’s width, giant redstone castles of the 15th century lay aging in the hillside greenery. Boy! What a sight! Just like the post cards. I decided to make a sketch of the scene.
The warm May sun beat down on me as I worked on the sketch. There was activity on the river. A touring ship filled with sightseers was sailing by. People waved to me. The tourists probably couldn’t see I was sketching the scenery. Some waved to me. Young boys were rowing boats near the shoreline. They waved to me.
I was finding out that my sketchbook and my guitar were passports of friendship for me as I traveled. The guitar seemed to say, “We have something in common –music.” And the sketchbook said, “You like my village, or churches, or bridges enough that you choose to sketch it.” That was pretty good. It was like having these two companions along with me too. I didn’t look like a vagrant or a highway robber or something to someone.
Now that’s a nice thing. So if you’re planning on taking a vagabond trip, there’s two secrets for you. Take a guitar and a sketchbook along, even if you don’t know how to use them!
The highway down the hill from my knoll was buzzing with tiny European cars breezing along with open windows loaded with picnickers. As they zipped by some of the passengers could see me atop the knoll. Some waved to me.
I put down my sketchbook and relaxed in the pleasant surroundings. I found myself in a zone I had come to recognize. The whole world seemed happy, and most of all, me! So far, my trip was going well. I was sorta numb. Was this freedom? I felt suspended in an atmosphere I had not known. Flashes of memories came back to me of the last day of school in 5th grade where all of us went through that thick heavy oak front door of Lincoln Grammar into the bright June outdoors realizing we had the whole summer ahead of us. It belonged to us. Freedom always seems like something you once had, not something you were presently experiencing. Well, I was experiencing it.
I sat on the green plot at the edge of the Rhine, basking in my thoughts. Not only the summer stretched out before me as all mine, but my whole life. I had no wristwatch. N o calendar, no To-Do list, no agenda. There were no more schedules, bells, loud noises, key chains, clocks, telephones. Time didn’t matter. I was free to do anything in whatever direction I chose.
There would be no disturbing knocks at the door of my life. That mirror on the edge of my shoulder examining my every moment, was missing, something had shattered it. This was great. Those warnings from my friends in Wuerzburg were just fading words. I had cancelled my career and headed off with the wind.
Was this my reward? I thought to myself. For some fleeting moments I was experiencing that elusive feeling of freedom. Would I capture this again on my trip?
Want to read more?
http://www.photosource.com/psn-article/mystory7.html
Beijing: Behind the Scenes (July)
Chinese culture through your photography. Join Sean Justice for a behind-the-scenes, upclose and personal tour of Beijing, an urban powerhouse and city of many charms. Our host, the Three Shadows Photography Art Center, is a contemporary gallery and research institute devoted to photography as a fine art.
Instructor: Sean Justice
Dates: One-Week Workshops7/5/10 - 7/15/10
International Center of Photography
Education Department
1114 Avenue of the Americas at 43rd Street
New York, New York 10036
212.857.0001 | www.icp.org
ref: http://photoworkshops.shawguides.com/
IN INDIA -- In recent years, there has been a sudden emergence of young female artists willing to challenge social norms. The images break free from stultifying convention and from the customs of photography; they transport us to a state of vertigo.” Gallery BMB’s new exhibition curated by Bose Krishnamachari celebrates this emergence. Bose says, “Historically, very few women artists survived after marriage and children.” SOURCE: Priyanka Shewakramani / DNA
http://www.dnaindia.com/lifestyle/report_young-female-artists-willing-to-challenge-social-norms_1351211
“When the novice photographer starts taking pictures, he carries his camera about and shoots everything that interests him. There comes a time when he must crystallize his ideas and set off in an particular direction. He must learn that shooting for the sake of shooting is dull and unprofitable”.
- Alexey Brodovitch - Photography, February 1964 [cited in: Creative Camera February 1972, p. 472]
February
1983. The first film close-up was made, in the laboratory of Thomas Edison in East Orange, NJ. The photo is of Edison's assistant, Fred Ott, who was sneezing at the time, and is titled: "The Sneeze."
1977. The first 35mm color transparency was magnified 516 times, taken by Ernst Haas, and exhibited by Eastman Kodak Company at Grand Central Station, NYC. It was 18x60 feet and consisted of 20 panels which were spliced together and placed on an 18-foot spiral. It depicted a herd of impala grazing in Kenya.
Anita V. Mozley dies at 81 As curator of photography at the Stanford Museum of Art, Anita Ventura
Mozley organized exhibitions on Edward Muybridge, Ansel Adams, Joseph Raphael and Robert Frank. She also expanded the museum's photography collection.
http://news.stanford.edu/news/2010/february15/anita-mozley-obit-021610.html
FOR THE BEGINNING STOCK PHOTOGRAPHER
TIME IS GOLD
Do you enjoy making money? If you answer no to that question then the rest of this article would be a waste of your time. But if your answer is yes, then consider this:
Time, to the creative person, is more important than money. It’s something money can’t buy – any time you find yourself squandering your time, you’re tossing away your potential profits, much like the lemonade stand proprietor who, without disciplining himself, drinks his profits.
Creative people are famous for “wasting time” by spending it trying to make money to support their creative habit. They spend time moonlighting at a fast-food restaurant, or a construction job, to gain the money to buy tripods, cameras, software, lenses. Because they take time away from their picture-taking and picture-marketing, they find themselves running in place financially and professionally, never moving ahead.
Others squander their time outside their day job on activities that have little to do with their mission of marketing their pictures. If you are a home gardener, did you ever figure out how much time you spend in your garden? One hour a day for 6 months is 180 hours. What kind of solid Market List could you build if you devoted 180 hours to researching and adding to your Market List this spring and summer? Once you discover which editors are out there with $10,000 to $20,000-a-month photography budgets waiting for your specialized photographs, those golden homegrown carrots won’t be so liable to distract you from operating your own real gold-making machinery.
"I’ve heard all the alibis: gardeners, golfers, dog trainers, hikers, and tennis players have when I ask them why they are pursuing these hobbies rather than building a solid Market List. I have a three-word reply for them: “Excuses, excuses, excuses.”
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by Mikael Karlsson
One of the most well-known talk radio hosts on financial matters is Dave Ramsey. His mantra is always the same. Don't go into debt. If you can't afford to buy something without going into debt simply don't do it.
While this makes a lot of sense it's not always practical, especially for those of us who are running a business. Keeping up with demands from customers you'll sometimes find that you need to invest in new equipment before you can pay cash. There's also always the risk of technology and equipment simply breaking down and needing immediate replacement.
One way of saving money is not to spend money on taxes that by legal right you’re not required to. Of course, check out this financial strategy with a registered tax advisor who deals with home-office entrepreneurs. You’ll be surprised about some deductions you were missing – and therefore losing money on.
Here are a few tips.
Home Office deductions
Many folks used to be reluctant to take a deduction for having an office in their homes. It was thought that this somehow made the IRS think you were trying to cheat on your taxes. This simply isn't true anymore and the fact is that if you have an office dedicated to your stock photo business use in your home you are likely eligible for significant deductions on your taxes.
Ask your local tax experts for help with the details. The key is to measure your office space in your home and relate that measurement to your total living area. This includes a percent of the cost of upkeep and improvements to your office area as it relates to your normal home expense. If it works out to 1/8 (in measurement) to the size of your home, then the heating/air conditioning expense is reduced by 1/8. So it goes for your new roof. One caveat in this area: If you sell your house, and therefore your business office, these deductions may be retrievable by the IRS, depending on current IRS rulings.
Are you taking all the deductions you can and are allowed by the law? Do you keep records that are viable enough to see you through an audit? There is a huge potential for savings on your yearly tax-bill. Especially if you have invested in computers, cameras/lenses, fax, photocopier, or any other expensive equipment for your business.
I recommend that you check with a local CPA for your taxes. Maybe even have one do your taxes for you. I do, both for my business as well as the personal taxes for my wife, Ruth ,and myself. The cost is roughly $200 per year but the savings making sure I take advantage of the allowable deductions quickly cover and outweigh the cost.
And if your tax advisor is knowledgeable in the area of intellectual properties you might be able save even more since that person will be aware of deductions that a person from, say H&R Block, might not know about.
Photojournalist Mikael Karlsson has 28 years' experience of working for magazines and newspapers in more than 30 countries. He moved to the United States in 1998 from his native Sweden. He lives in Nebraska and is currently US correspondent for 11 Swedish magazines and writes a how to photograph column for PhotoStockNOTES. Reach to Mikael via email .
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NO FIREWORKS, PLEASE -- What’s Wrong With A Flash Website For A Photographer’s Business? - You don’t need the bells and whistles. You don’t need complicated galleries and Flash popping here and there. With your web presence, you need two things. 1. Simplicity 2. Content. http://virtualphotographystudio.com/photographyblog/2010/02/11/whats-wrong-with-a-flash-website-for-a-photographers-business/
KISS -- Composition Tips – Simplicity - A photograph that is composed with simplicity in mind will often draw the viewer’s attention and emotion in a more significant way than a shot that is too “busy”, has a cluttered background, or has “too much going on”. http://www.beyondmegapixels.com/2010/02/composition-tips-%e2%80%93-simplicity/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+BeyondMegapixels+%28Beyond+Megapixels%29
KEEPIN’ IN TOUCH -- Ten Twitter Lists All Photographers Should Follow - Twitter Lists let you search and subscribe to other users' lists*. What are the elements of a good Twitter List? Grover Sanschagrin lists ten Twitter list to follow. http://blog.photoshelter.com/2010/02/ten-twitter-lists-all-photographers-should-follow.html
GOOGLE GOGGLES GETS GOING – Google Goggles, which creates search queries based on images instead of typed-in keywords, will soon start to be able to translate from foreign languages using Google Translate. This will be a big improvement for stock photographers who often forget to take down and utilize important keywords when they take a picture. Keywords make it useful for photo researchers and photo editors to find the exact picture they need, not just one “good enough for government work.” A picture is worth a thousand words. This is just the beginning - it's not quite perfect yet. Works well for some things, but not for all. You are more in control of your datasbase of pictures, once Google Goggles Getd Going. SOURCE: Erick Schonfeld TechCrunch.com Interested? More infoprmation at: http://www.google.com/mobile/goggles/#landmark
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/16/AR2010021603030.html
TAKEAWAY: As soon as Google perfects a system for recognizing, the contents of an image, the better for stock photographers to get their editorial pictures in the hands of researchers who look for specific pictures, not general category (generic) images.
HOW’D HE DO THAT? -- A Resource for Travel Photography in California is Available on Kindle. A California travel photography guide, California Photo Scout, offers inspiring photographs of popular destinations along with advice on how to take them yourself. http://ca.myphotoscout.com/
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MORE OPPORTUNITIES -- Stock Photography Agencies for Amateur Photographers - There are options that allow photographers to sell licenses for real money while still enjoying minimal acceptance requirements and open opportunities. Here are five of them. http://blogs.photopreneur.com/stock-photography-agencies-for-amateur-photographers?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PhotopreneurBlog+%28Photopreneur+Blog%29
FREE WHEELING -- Is Fotomoto a threat to traditional stock agencies? - The company allows photographers to sell their images and products on their own website without directing them elsewhere. It’s primary focus is selling photography for prints and cards but in principle the system allows for any type of licensing, including usage. http://www.fastmediamagazine.com/?p=4050
ANOTHER WAY -- Photoseekers tell them what they want. Photographers show them their best shots. Seekers buy the photo they like best. www.focalpop.com/
GET WITH IT -- If You Can’t Be Original, You Should at Least Be Honest - What Peter Phun finds disturbing is that some beginning photographers don’t seem to value originality. In fact, they don’t even understand the difference between learning photography and creating photography. They think that snapping a shutter is what photography is about. http://rising.blackstar.com/if-you-cant-be-original-you-should-at-least-be-honest.html
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COMPENSATION -- NY photographer wins $30,000 in wrongful arrest case - It was exactly a year ago that Robert Taylor was arrested for photographing trains in the New York City subway system and charged with “unauthorized photography.”. Has the legal settlement made a difference in how photographers are treated within the nation’s largest subway system? Not even close. http://carlosmiller.com/2010/02/10/ny-photographer-wins-30000-in-wrongful-arrest-case/
THOSE SHOEBOX SLIDES -- 10,000 Photos Prepared for Scanning in 2-Minutes Using Kodak Technology at ScanMyPhotos.com. - That’s a big number, but according to The Photo Preservation Center, "many households collectively have more than 10,000 analog photo snapshots stored away in shoeboxes."
"Now, generations of family photos are prepared for scanning in under 2-minutes. That’s all it takes to click on ScanMyPhotos.com and order the new prepaid fill-the-box Family Generation Collection service," said Goldstone .
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TAKEAWAY: The editorial stock photographer's question is, "Are the scanned slides good enough for licensing to a photobuyer?"
Editorial stock photography is not as strict as commercial stock photography when it comes to resolution. If you have a picture of Ronald Reagan on a horse in front of his boyhood home in Dixon, IL, a researcher will look differently at it for use, quarter page, in a middle-school text book - than a photo editor for a coffee table book producer, or an ad agency.
ALSO: Here's why it's impotant to keyword all of your scanned slides that you think might sell in your lifetime or your heir's lifetime or longer.
LEARN BY DOING -- Nik Software Daily Webinars - Nik Software announced a new free daily webinar series set on introducing the company’s digital photographic tools to current customers as well as those who have not yet purchased any Nik Software products. www.niksoftware.com/daily http://shutterbug.com/news/020810nik/#
WHAT’S A WINNER? -- Shooting a Perfect Stock Photo. Ellen Boughn says, “ The photo below is an almost perfect stock photo. It is not cutting edge or trendy. It is not hip or cool. What it is though, it is a photo that will license over and over for years.
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TAKEAWAY: O.K. class. What is missing? What does it still need? Answer from the back of the room: "It's missing a symbol, and family interaction with that symbol..."
Instructor: "Please explain."
Student: "The symbol could be a plastic shovel and the family could be building a sand castle. Or the symbol could be a telescope and the kids could be taking turns viewing the sailing ship or something out on the horizon."
Instructor: "You've got it. You've got a clean background, persons, a symbol, and involvement with that symbol. You're picture now has dimension. Your viewing public can relate to your editorial stock photo.
FINDING ASSETS -- Controversial Auction Sells Warhols From Polaroid’s Collection - As Polaroid, that once mighty photo giant, withers away in bankruptcy court, a chunk of its remarkable photography collection will be dispersed at a controversial sale set for June 21 and 22 at Sotheby’s in New York. http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=a49VdCIF36ZQ
Jacob Holdt. A Danish photographer’s view of America. Looking for adventure, Holdt, the 23-year-old son of a pastor, had planned to start his trip in Canada and travel to Chile via the United States. But on the way to South America, he encountered so much injustice, misery and poverty in the US that he abandoned his plans. He was shocked and at the same time fascinated by the contradictions of American society and wanted to experience those paradoxes for himself. His photos, are now on display in Braunschweig, Germany, showing a haunting America. SOURCE: Christoph Gunkel. Der Spiegel.
His photos, are now on display in Braunschweig, Germany.
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* Habitat World, the quarterly magazine of Habitat for Humanity International, is announcing the premiere of the 2010 Habitat World Photo Contest. Habitat World is look for photographs of volunteers and families who are receiving a home, or from Habitat building sites. Photos should reflect the need for affordable, adequate housing and Habitat’s life-changing work around the world.
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* This one is for students only. In 2010, the Bron Imaging Group bi-annual BIG ED photographic contest will be hosted by the iconic photographic team of Markus Klinko and Indrani. The theme of the contest, which runs until 1 July, is an intimate portrait of the girl or boy next door. The winner will receive a complete broncolor Mobil A2R travel kit, and will have the option to add a second Mobilite 2 head, a Unilite head, or a Ringflash C. The second prize is a broncolor Minicom RFS Travel kit, whilst the third prize is a California Sunbounce Micro Mini with flash bracket.
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My Story
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ALONG THE RHINE - 1957
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BROTHERS NEAR RUDESHEIM - 1957
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ROHN IN THE HAYLOFT - 1957
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TWINS
6
I was confused when I woke up. Where was I? No scratchy 78 rpm record player blasting reveille outside my window. No sounds of guys walking or rushing to the john down the hall. No guys in the lavatory bumping elbows brushing teeth, slippery tile floors, urinals, smelly excretions from guys falling asleep on the toilet, bad beer breath from the night before, no moaning and bitching about hangovers. No guys asking if they could borrow your razor, guys shouting back and forth about “the gal I saw you with” and “did you ding her.?”. No rushing to Roll Call out in the quadrangle to get there in time to get a few brownie points from the assembly Captain. I forget his name.
Today it felt like Sunday. No rush. I could turn over and get back to sleep. But I didn’t.
I rubbed my eyes and looked around at this guy’s bedroom. A university student.
A cross hung on the wall above the bed. It wasn’t a Maltese Cross it was a Christian cross. Another was across the room by the dresser. They must be Catholic or Lutheran. Probably Catholic in this part of Germany.
It’s funny, at my unit in Wuerzburg, guys didn’t really know anything about the Germans. They didn’t even know the language except “Wo ist der Bahnhof?” or something like that. Most of them were hostile to Germans. The Staff Sergeant, who was a “lifer” in the Army now 20 years told me once. “I didn’t see them as people, I was just shooting at uniforms.”
Back at Wuerzburg, the guys probably would have ostracized me if they learned I spent the night in a German guy’s bed.
I looked around some more. A picture of his girl friend on the bureau, or was it a cousin, or his mother before the war? Pretty girl. A picture of a guy in uniform. His brother, maybe? They didn’t mention him. I didn’t want to ask. And I won’t.
Back in Wuerzburg in the taverns and park benches, I had my fill of conversations about killed and gone friends and relatives. I had a habit of digging down into people’s lives, asking questions. I’m sure that’s why I was eager to learn the German language when the Army sent me to Oberammergau to learn it.
I wanted to talk to the people. I’m sure I would’ve failed German if I ‘d taken German in high school, just like I failed Spanish. I admire people who can learn things for no other reason that just to learn them. Like Latin or Greek.
I don’t know if the Germans resented me always asking questions. I couldn’t help it. It just came out. My curiosity, I mean. I guess that’s why I didn’t mind my Army job. I had a license to ask questions. As far as the answers, I don’t know how much of it was true. I guess they told me what they figured I wanted to hear.
The conversations were always the same. They never defended their involvement in the war, they didn’t know anything about Jews in concentration camps, and the High Command only broadcast the good stuff like their victories in Poland and Russia. And how the people cheered and welcomed the German Army into Austria. This idea of radio and movies telling people what they wanted to hear must've been exciting. Going to the movies back them, I mean like in the early 40's and they would have The News before the movie started. No one was late for that. Everyone was hushed and seated. and they would see resulted of when German submarines were blasting boats out of the water, and sailors were floating in the oily fires. Or a shell wolud blast a Russian tank. That was better than the movie itself.
When you walked out of the movie in broad daylight itself and saw a German soldier in uniform, you'd probably want to go up to him and hug him, or be eager to send your own son, when he was 16 or 17, to the recruitment station to sign up. It must've all been so exciting.
When the tide turned, the people were in the dark except for propaganda. That must’ve been tough. The radio played music instead of showing the losses in Russia or North Africa or other places depending on when you were listening.
How would you like spending ten to fifteen months listening to stuff on the radio like, "Good morning folks, Heil Hitler! We are losing this war. The British and American air raids are breaking our morale.”
Your reaction to the radio reports would be “My family and me might be killed tomorrow.”
But then the commentator would say something like, “But there’s still hope. Our German ingenuity will overcome. We are in the final stages of developing what’s called a jet engine airplane that will easily destroy those English and American bombers and fighter planes, plus we are developing a bomb that could wipe out London in one minute.”
I guess the people were so war-weary that they would’ve believed anything, -even the idea that one bomb could destroy a whole city. But the funny thing about it was the Nazi broadcaster would have been telling the truth because the German scientists were working on an atom bomb and they just about had it completed before the war ended. Now that would have been something. Let's not think about that,
We can get used to just about anything, it seems, doesn't it? And if we can’t, then we resort to denial, which saves us from an unpleasant existence.
During my two years in Wuerzburg, from the Germans, I never saw or heard spoken the mention of Adolph Hitler, Joseph Goebbles, Heinrich Himmler, or Herman Goering. Except Hans, in his darkroom when I would be in there working with him and Maria wasn't there. He would use the darkroom to tell me deep down what his feeling were. He couldn't express them during the war and he couldn't express them after the war, so the darkroom was the only place to express them, and to an American, me.
As I lay there in my early morning wake-up trance, I dismissed the whole subject. I transitioned into how nice it was for these people to invite me into their home and to spend the night in their son's bedroom. What a beautiful day outside! I let my mind switch into the road ahead for me that day.
The aroma of frying eggs, sauerkraut and pork and potatoes came whafting up the stairwell. Herr Werner was just coming out of the bathroom. “Gruess Gott” he shouted. “Hast du gut geshlafen?” “Sehr gut,” I smiled as we shook hands.
“Where are you off to this morning?”, Frau Werner asked as she gave me another helping of sauerkraut. This was not a breakfast, this was a send-off supper.
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2010 World Press Photo Winners Announced - The 53rd Annual World Press Photo of the Year has been awarded to Italian photographer Pietro Masturzo, for his image of women shouting from a Tehran rooftop on June 24, 2009, in protest of the contested Iranian presidential elections. http://www.pdnonline.com/pdn/content_display/photo-news/photojournalism/e3i1403cd968283bfb5cf90145486f93ee2
The People Behind The Pics: Snowbound - How 'glorified ski bum' Jordan Manley turned his passion into a photography career. http://stateoftheart.popphoto.com/blog/2010/02/the-people-behind-the-pics-snowbound.html
If the photographer is interested in the people in front of his lens, and if he is compassionate, it's already a lot. The instrument is not the camera but the photographer. - Eve Arnold
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1931 – February 21st – the camera exposure meter was invented by William Nelson Goodwin, Jr. of the Weston Electrical Instrument Corporation, in Newark, NJ, who obtained patent No. 1,407,147 on a thermal ammeter.
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I'll call him Frank. He dropped his subscription to our daily marketletter. "There aren't enough aviation requests in your newsletter," he said.
"Let's talk about that," I said, "keeping in mind that the PhotoDaily is a marketletter, not a newsletter. The distinction is important, and has bearing on your concern about the number of aviation requests."
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"A marketletter provides markets for you - not only the current day's specific photo requests from buyers, but new markets themselves, to add to your own Market List. The marketletter does all your research for you and not only finds new photobuyers, but also provides you with information on the kinds of photos they buy and the prices they pay. You can take this information, and whether or not you have the specific photo requested in that one listing, if over the long haul that buyer uses photos in one of your specialties, you have made a valuable contact to pursue on your own."
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I asked him to think of "Marketing" as a long-term annuity. "Here's the big picture," I said. "We list photo needs every day, five days a week. In a year's time, we list about 3,000 photo needs. Let's say 1% of those are aviation needs."
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"A publishing house that buys aviation pictures, is a buyer you, as an aviation photographer, can be hooked up with for a long time. You can establish a working relationship and work independently with them, making many more sales to them each year, beyond that first sale from the original listing in the marketletter. Individual photo editors at that company may come and go, but you'll continue to be an important resource for that publishing company. We've seen that most editorial stock photographers enjoy a working relationship with any one company for an average of ten years, and even longer.
If you 'net' $5000 annually from each buyer you acquire, over a ten-year period, you are talking $50,000 (10 X $5,000) from each buyer. If in one year, you acquire 3 steady buyers you are actually acquiring about $150,000 worth of business ($50,000 X 3). And that's from the number of buyer contacts made in just one year from the marketletter information."
"I never looked at it that way," he said.
"Think of the future net worth of the photobuyers you acquire. Each one has a specialized need. In this case, aviation. And you take aviation pictures. There couldn't be a better match."
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HOLD IT! -- Ad Agency Guide To Photography Usage Terms - All questionable negotiations have historically defaulted in favor of the artist. Technically, even minor modification of the art requires the artists’ permission. You are RENTING, not buying an image unless explicitly stated on the contract. http://www.aphotoeditor.com/2010/02/05/ad-agency-guide-to-photography-usage-terms/
GET LINKS -- Why People Aren't Linking To Your Photo Website - Ten SEO Tips To Get Websites To Link To You. http://blog.photoshelter.com/2010/02/ten-ways-to-get-others-to-link-to-you.html
FRANCHISE YOUR BUSINESS -- January edition of Entrepreneur magazine dedicated a large portion of the magazine to franchises. Did you know 8 of their top 500 franchises are in the photography industry? Does that tell you photography is still very profitable? People are willing to invest anywhere from $15,000 to more than $300,000 to get involved in one of these photography businesses. http://virtualphotographystudio.com/photographyblog/2010/02/03/how-much-for-a-photography-franchise/
THE FULL SERVICE PHOTOGRAPHER – 10 Ways to Increase Your Web Traffic –This blog post outlines several steps you can take to ramp up your online traffic. Whether you’re seeking new leads or to improve your current customer relationships, you’ll find something that will take you to the next level. SOURCE: Rebecca Ritz. Bauerhaus Design. http://cs.sbtv.com/Post/?id=2735
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IT’s 50-50. -- Kodak Sees Roughly Break-even 2010 On Flattish Revenues. It expects 2010 earnings from continuing operations to range from a loss of $50 million to a profit of $50 million as it continues to manage its declining film and photo-finishing business for cash while pursuing growth in consumer and commercial digital-imaging products. SOURCE: Wall Street Journal. http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20100204-714868.html?mod=WSJ_earnings_MIDDLETopHeadlines
ONE BIG CATALOG – Microstock is the new Royalty Free - The distinction between microstock and royalty free (RF) is becoming irrelevant. Microstock and RF will be blended seamlessly from the buyer’s perspective and image buyers will be given more choice than ever before. What happens to pricing depends on your point of view. We’ll start to see pricing get tied to how often images are purchased. This form of pricing is fairly common in microstock today; all images start off at the same level and popular images go up in price. http://www.fastmediamagazine.com/?p=3891
NEW YEAR, NEW CHANGES -- New year and lots of changes in the microstock industry. http://www.microstockdiaries.com/this-month-in-microstock-january-2010.html
EXPECT A WIDE VARIETY -- Microstock Photography-From the Australian Buyer’s Perspective. Carl Chapman: “I decided to update some images on one of my commercial websites. As I browsed various microstock sites, I was struck by the variation of image quality and lack of creative content. I started by searching around some of the free microstock sites such as Stock.Xchng, Stock Vault, and Dreamstime Free Stock. www.carlchapman.com/stock-photography/microstock-photography-from-the-buyers-perspective/
CLOSING DOWN -- Royalty free stock photography site StockXpert to close. On February 2, 2010 StockXpert stopped selling credits, accepting new members and uploads and next week on February 11, searching and downloading will be suspended. StockXpert's subscription operations are being migrated over to Getty Images' new subscription site Thinkstock, and individual image purchase operations are moving to iStockphoto.
http://www.macworld.co.uk/procreative/news/index.cfm?newsid=28555
GETTING CONFIDENT -- Gaining, and Keeping, Your Confidence - Tiffany Joyce is betting she’s not the only photographer out there who thought they were pretty good, until they saw a photograph taken by someone else that just blew them away, and they thought, “I’ll never be as good as that.” Here are some thoughts on gaining, and keeping, your confidence.
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Make Your Computer Go Faster
Your computer is a complex machine made up of both electronic and mechanical parts. Many novices to computers think that once they've bought a computer that it should work consistently thereafter.
The reality is this: You could have the best hardware in the world and have a computer that runs so slowly as to be next to worthless.
The number one determining factor (hardware issues and failures aside) that will slow your computer down is: "YOU!!!" Have I shocked you ? Good!!
Let me put this into perspective. A case in point was a computer I was asked to look at recently. The user was really frustrated. He was thinking of chucking the laptop out a window because it was so slow. Granted, it was an old computer, but what really got my attention was what happened when the machine booted up (which took a long time).
He had 6 different anti-spyware programs all in competition with each other, about 5 different registry editors and numerous browser toolbars.
I was flabbergasted!!
I told him I was amazed his machine would even boot up at all. Cleaning it out was even worse. Some of the programs fought me (with threats of dire consequences to the integrity of his machine) as I tried to remove them. It was a real mess, but over time, it got better and the computer sped up considerably.
The whole point of this story is this: "If you have poor software habits, such as downloading tons of files on the Internet or every program your friends give to you, you're likely to overload your system and it won't be long before your computer will begin to slow down again."
To elaborate, let's use the analogy of a new car. If you buy it with all the bells and whistles, such as air conditioning, power everything, etc. and you don’t maintain it, it will begin to perform poorly. One such impact will be high gas consumption.
Conversely, if you buy a car that only has what you need, a leaner version of the same vehicle and you do regular maintenance, this will tend to reduce your gas consumption.
It's a similar thing with your computer. If you get the best hardware but you overload your system with unnecessary programs and clog up your hard drive, your system will begin to slow down.
It's that simple. The solution is to run a lean machine and only install what's necessary for your business or hobby.
A new machine or upgrades will give you a faster machine, but its long term performance will largely be determined by your computing habits.
I would need 10 minutes of your time and I'll show you how to speed up your computer, rid yourself of viruses and protect yourself online.
Nathan Segal, from Victoria, BC, Canada, is a writer/photographer who has also been active as a digital artist for well over a decade. For the past 9+ years, he has written numerous articles for computer and photographic magazines and has provided his own illustrations and photographs for the articles. His articles have covered : software reviews, tutorials, computer tips and tricks, profiles and investigative reporting. visualartist49[at]gmail[dot]com; 1 408 844-4851 (Cell).
MORE SUBSCRIBERS: -- Magazines`Newsstand Recession May Be Lightening Up. The magazine newsstand recession isn’t over, but it seems to be lightening up. Most magazine circulation figures are still down, but not as much as they have been. This suggests, moreover, that the momentum may be shifting for the better. Newsstand declines had been getting worse -- progressing from a 6.3% slide in the first half of 2008, compared with the same period the year prior, to an 11.1% drop in the second half of 2008, and then to a 12.4% descent in the first half of 2009, according to the Audit Bureau of Circulations. SOURCE: Nat Ives. AdAGE Magazine.
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This is the cover of Stampington's new magazine GreenCraft and yes the reason I got one first is because it has one of my projects in it ..... the article starts on page 15 & with explanation and photo on page 17 ... it has lots of cool ...SOURCE: Linda Manning Findley; The Art Sook - http://theartsook.blogspot.com/
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REGISTRATION -- Should International Photographers Register Their Images with the U.S. Copyright Office? - A U.K. freelancer asks, if I as a U.K. resident put my pictures on the Web, do I need to register my images with the U.S. Copyright Office? The reason I ask is that we are no longer local, but now global. Carolyn E. Wright, an attorney who specializes in photography issues responds. SOURCE: BlackStar Rising http://rising.blackstar.com/should-international-photographers-register-their-images-with-the-u-s-copyright-office.html
Two Decisions Confirm
Copyright Protection
For Product Photos
By Joel Hecker, Esq.
On November 5, 2009, the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit reversed an erroneous decision out of the United States District Court in Chicago, and on January 14, 2010, a United States District Judge in New York reached the same conclusion, that photographs of products taken on assignment can be protected by the photographer under copyright law.
Background Facts
The Seventh Circuit case, Daniel P. Schrock v. Learning Curve International, RC2 Brands, Inc, and HIT Entertainment, concerned the popular “Thomas & Friends” train characters. HIT licensed the right to make toy figures of its train characters to defendant Learning Curve (now owned by defendant RC2 Corporation). Learning Curve then retained Schrock to take photographs of its toys, including those based upon the Thomas & Friends properties.
Schrock granted limited rights to Learning Curve to use his resulting photos of Learning Curve’s products. This arrangement continued on a regular basis for about four years. Schrock’s invoices, eventually totaling more than $400,000, were paid in full.
Learning Curve stopped giving work to Schrock in 2003, but continued to use some of Schrock’s photos in its printed advertising, packaging and on the internet. In 2004, the photographer registered his photographs with the Copyright Office and obtained copyright registration certificates in his name. He then brought his lawsuit for copyright infringement.
On defendants’ motion for summary judgment, the primary issue was whether Schrock’s photos, as derivative works of the actual toys, were sufficiently original to obtain copyright protection, and whether defendants’ consent was required for Schrock to register the photos with the Copyright Office.
The district court, focusing on the derivative issue, granted summary judgment and threw out the case.
The Copyright Act
A derivative work is defined in the Copyright Act as a:
The appellate court assumed that Schrock’s photos came within the definition of derivative works since they “recast, transformed or adopted” the three dimensional toys into a different, two-dimensional medium. But that was only the beginning of the analysis.
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AND THEY’RE FREE. Ten Great Digital Photography Downloads. Want some help with editing and managing you stock collection? Pcworld has rounded up ten downloads that will let you take control of your photos. Whether you're looking for a top-of-the-line photo editor, a great photo manager, or nifty utilities to handle tasks such as finding duplicates, we have just the thing. And every program is free--not only to download but also to use. SOURCE: Preston Gralla, Pcworld – http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20100203/tc_pcworld/10greatdigitalphotographydownloads_1
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NEAR KITZINGEN WEST GERMANY - 1957
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ROHN’S SKETCH OF SUMMERHAUSEN - 1957
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CEMETARY IN OBERAMMERGAU - 1957
ROHN AT AGE 26 WUERZBURG - 1957
My Story
5
At 5:00 a.m. on the morning of May 20th 1957, the wake up shrill of a well-scratched reveille record pierced the PA system in the hallway of our barracks. I lifted the blind, looked out and saw fog everywhere. “Jeeze”, I said.
I don’t know if I was saying the “Jeeze” to the fog out there or just that I gotta do it. I gotta follow through and just get on that motor scooter today and head west.
But if I didn’t follow through, what would I tell all the people that tried to convince me not to go on this trip?
Sleeping wasn’t easy during last night. Several times my thoughts turned to just forgetting the whole thing. I could do that. Several times in the last week as my discharge date came up I thought about just dropping the whole idea.
I could sell my Vespa in downtown Wuerzburg and buy a plane ticket back to the states. I could spend a few more days with Maria, or a few more weeks or the whole summer, or a lifetime with her. She wasn’t there to see me off. I cut things off. I told her not to be there.
“No, no, don’t do this, forget the trip. Dump it. It’ll make you feel better” was what I heard in my head. And it wasn’t the people who surrounded me talking, it was I saying it.
But I looked at all my travel belongings. I had prepared the night before to strap on to my Vespa. And thought about all the official papers I had filled out and the goodbyes I had made. It would be easy to appear on Maria’s doorstep. But the sun was now coming up and by the time it was setting on May 20th 1957, I had to be somewhere, and it couldn’t be in the barracks of the 8212th AAI Unit.
Rick caught up with me on the way to the mess hall for breakfast. He grabbed my shoulder and squeezed. “This is it,” he said. “Freedom!” he shouted.
I tried to muster a smile. I guess I did for his sake. He was happy for me.
I was scared. What had I done? Why had I chosen to take this trip?
Was Lieutenant Kohler right? Was I running away from something?
I had told him, “No, I’m breaking away. I’m not running away.”
At breakfast, I had no appetite.
Sergeant Adams came by our table in the mess hall, stood over me and tossed a brown enveloped near my plate. “There it is, Engh, your discharge papers. Lieutenant Kohler says to shoot a tiger for him in Africa.”
“I mumbled as I looked at the envelope, “ They don’t have any tigers in Africa.”
“Well, don’t shoot yourself in the foot!” He said, walking away smiling, something I rarely saw from h im.
“He’s just jealous,” Rick said.
Back at the barracks, Rick helped me pack the motor scooter. I had shipped all of my non-trip belongings back to Maryland. All that remained were the essentials for my trip: my guitar, my pup tent, my Rollieflex, a map and the “civvies” I had chosen to wear on my journey.
What with the fog hanging over the gray cement-block buildings around the quadrangle and the sun starting to break through the heavy mist and the silver color of my sparkling new Vespa, it all gave a silvery tinge to my departure.
Rick grabbed me by the neck, shook me a little, and didn’t say anything as he shook his head. “Good luck!”
I whistled to Rick who was walking back to the quadrangle where everyone was assembling for roll call. He turned, gave a “thumbs up” gesture, turned and continued on. .
I was alone. I was on my own.
I started up the Vespa, swallowed, and headed west.
I left all the doubts about canceling the trip behind. I was on my way. The horizon awaited me. I didn’t feel good about all this. “So this was ‘freedom’?” I said to myself.
My first day on the road was a frightening one. An accident near the end of the day nearly ended the trip on the first day.
The road out of Wuerzburg winds around the sloping vineyards that border the city to the west and twists and turns through a series of hills and valleys toward the nearby river city of Frankfort/Main.
I hadn’t really had much experience driving the Vespa. On highways. I drove at cautious speeds, much to the irritation of fast moving Germans cars and Army trucks. It was a cold morning and heavy winds swept across the countryside. I had attached a windshield to the Vespa. The winds would sometimes catch me from the back and other times sweep in from the right, causing me to veer onto the opposite lane (in Germany, people drive in the right lane like in the USA).
Then suddenly the wind would shift and catch sideways in the windshield. The wind would treat it like a sail, and would send the scooter sweeping at sudden angles off the road or into the oncoming lane.
I had to concentrate every moment in preparation for the next gust of wind. The newness of driving a motor scooter was uncomfortable enough, but the sudden jolts from the wind made steering not so pleasant.
That first day, I made a distance of only 80 miles. It took me six hours. Other motorcyclists and motor scooters passed me. Some of them waved to me and were probably surprised at not seeing a grandmother driving the Vespa. It wasn’t just a couple of times the thought entered my head that when I got to Frankfurt, I could drive into the Vespa distributorship, sell my machine, and buy an airline ticket to Baltimore.
Sometimes I would stop in a village or alongside the roadway to watch the passing traffic and the people bustling on their way to work or doing their everyday chores. If I caught someone’s eye, I would nod my head and say, “Gruess Gott.’ Which was the normal way of saying hello to a stranger in this part of West Germany. My brand spanking new Vespa was a clue to them that I must be just starting out. Some would actually stop and ask where I was off to and if I was an American and all that. Then they would head off on their daily routine or whatever they had to do that day.
Well, I didn’t have anything to do that day except move westward or just stay set or whatever I wanted to do. It’s then that I think an overwhelming feeling of independence overcame me. I wasn’t beholden to anybody. Not Colonel Henderson, not Lieutenant Kohler, not to my parents, not to anybody. I can’t remember ever feeling this way.
I was to feel that way a lot on the road ahead. The sun was my clock and the leaves would be my calendar. But independen ce has its price I was to learn too.
I had $192.50 in my pocket in USA cash. I didn’t exchange it for the local currency. The Germans liked U.S. dollars even more than their own deutschmarks. I suspected everyone in Europe would be glad to accept the dollar.
Late in the afternoon, I learned my first lesson for the beginner on a motor scooter. Pay attention to the road. As I was nearing the village of Dettingen, I came up on a steep grade that ended in a beautiful view, actually a panoramic view, of a wide valley with little farms and quilted vegetable patches, I locked into the immensity of the scene and didn’t notice that the road made a sharp winding curve around the mountain.
I felt the scooter wheels hit the gravel that bordered the road. It was too late to avoid an accident. I guided the scooter so that it slid sideways into a guardrail that protected the road from a cliff.
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LEADING A PHOTO TOUR? -- Things You Need to Know About Photo Tours - For those photographers who plan on leading their own photo tours, (And for those planning to participate in a tour.)
http://darwinwiggett.wordpress.com/2010/02/05/warning-things-you-need-to-know-about-photo-tours/
Success is what happens when 10,000 hours of preparation meet with one moment of opportunity. - Anonymous
1906 – February 8 – Chester F. Carlson, the inventor of the photo copier, was born in Seattle, Washington.
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Coming up in April is tax time. It's time to talk about how you can save by being aware of what tax-savings are available to you.
Arithmetic in grammar school and algebra in high school never appealed to me. But when I discovered later on in life that I could save hundreds of dollars every year, I soon became fascinated by mathematics.
No one likes to talk about taxes. But before you close the doors and slam the windows on the subject, let me make two points: 1) You are missing an opportunity to save anywhere from $10 to $1,000 a year (or more) on your taxes, if you are a salaried person and attempting to get your part-time business of your stock photography operation off the ground; and 2) what I'm going to say has nothing to do with evading taxes -- that's illegal. You will avoid taxes -- that's your legal right.
The IRS encourages you to avoid taxes. Sound odd? It's correct.
The reason the IRS doesn't want you to pay so much in taxes is that our free enterprise system recognizes that it takes courage to start up a business - thus, they want to encourage you. They know that if you succeed, you could very well help stimulate the economy by hiring more workers, who in turn will pay more taxes.
You probably thought "write-offs" were only for the big boys, and that it costs big dollars to ask questions about tax advantages. Not so. The IRS provides you with all the information I'm about to reveal to you in their free and informative, "Taxpayer's Business Kit.” So, you verify this with the IRS. (Phone them at 1 800 829 1040) But if you're like most of us, you'll take one look at that two pounds of information and put it away in a drawer for "later."
A costly mistake. Here's what you'll discover when you sift out the information as it applies to you, the stock photographer. The government will give you five years to stop calling your operation a hobby and start calling it a business. Within those five years, you should show a profit ($1 is a profit) in at least two of those years. That means you could go three years without even selling a picture or showing a profit and still reap the tax benefits (more later). (If your stock photography business is your only business, your primacy livelihood, you can actually show a loss every year.)
You don't have to "get a license" (unless your local city or township requires it). You only have to show intent to be a business, rather than a hobby.
Intent translates into "putting up a shingle." In other words, get some stationery printed (google is a good source for best prices), and open a separate bank (business) account. At income tax time, fill out Schedule C, a form that lets the IRS know whether you made a profit or a loss on your stock photography operation.
Now here's where your savings come in. Much of your business-related expenses (computer expense, travel, home office, vehicle, darkroom) are no longer your personal expenses, they are business expenses, and therefore become "deductions" in other words, expenses to your business. Even though you don't make a profit, you are still entitled to this write-off.
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YUM! – Ten 10 Tips for Taking Great Food Photos. Go to a big food website and the food glistens, the light is perfect and everything is in its place. But you`re traveling and you have a pocket or DSLR camera and you have a great spread before you. Conditions are tricky and time is limited. What do you do? SOURCE: Daniel Noll
www.uncorneredmarket.com/2010/01/10-tips-for-taking-great-food-photos/
Pugs, Pugs, Pugs . . . .
Did you know our editorial director here at PhotoSource International, Lela Labree Stute has just published a Childrens Book (PUGS GO ON VACATION! - ISBN# 978 1 4489 2738 8) about her three (Yes, 3… ) pugs? You can see Lela and her book at
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Good news… she has five more books in the making
Need to find markets for your areas of photography?
Most entry-level stock photographers make the mistake (like most beginners in any creative field) of creating first…and then trying to find a market for their product. It’s a recipe for disaster.
If you reverse it (find the market--then create), you’ll be successful. (I.e. find the markets that focus on the subject areas that you like to photograph.)
Thanks to the Internet, you can easily find what markets are out there waiting for your special interest pictures.
Go to a search engine such as Google and type in the name of your category of pictures (let’s use “childhood education” as an example), a space, the magazine, a space and then “guidelines” (three phrases).
The results are interesting: 733,000 for childhood education-oriented. (At least one of the words in this exercise is found in Google. (that's why there are 733,ooo hits).
Starting at page 1 of the Google search, begin to find publications that match your criteria.
Granted, search engines are not perfect, but if only one-tenth of those periodicals and publishing houses turn out to be markets for your area of specialization, you need look no further for buyers for your stock photography. This system works for any category of specialization you might have. -RE
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NEW TRAVEL SERVICE -- The Wall Street Journal expands brand with WSJTravel launch - While The Wall Street Journal struggles with advertising, it continues to diversify its offerings by delving into another realm - travel services. WSJTravel is a website that will offer 50 travel packages to destinations including Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, and South America. http://www.editorsweblog.org/newspaper/2010/01/the_wall_street_journal_expands_brand_wi.php
PLEASE, JUST THE GOOD ONES – Highs and Lows of Travel Photography.
When you return from an awesome trip, you want to show off your photos to friends and family. Unfortunately, dull photos don’t help your image.
http://travelblog.gapadventures.com/2010/01/26/highs-and-lows-of-travel-photography/
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DROPPING RIGHTS-MANAGED -- Microstock in the limelight at Corbis' Veer - Corbis is betting on microstock and royalty-free images as it plans to adapt its Veer offering by dropping rights-managed images from the online stock library. http://www.bjp-online.com/public/showPage.html?page=873065
MOVING FORWARD – Another model to deal with? Could Google Gag the Microstock Business? Conversations surround talk of Apple`s new "tablet" and how it might save newspapers and magazines. While a disruptive new technology is an opportunity for those who take advantage of it, it might spell disaster for those who don’t. Google proposes a number of images matching the ad content. SOURCE: Jay King. http://jaykinghorn.com/?p=304
MOVE ON -- Is it that gloomy out there? A 54-year-old photographer has maintained his business, in part, by shooting rodeos - a genre filled with fervent fans and specialty publications willing to pay for quality work. Survival will increasingly depend on such niche-mining, since the stopper won't ever be put back in the stock photography bottle.
SOURCE: JAMES RAINEY / Los Angeles Times http://www.adn.com/24hour/opinions/story/1105488.html
TAKEAWAY: Yes, the gloom is out there if you continue to use the old model to survive in stock photography. But switch to a specialized field, one that you love being in, and stick with that niche. The buyers will come to you, and they’ll not be from down the street, but from addresses world-wide. –RE
DESTROYING SELF-DOUBT -- Don’t Let Self-Doubt Hold Back Your Photography Business - If you are a new professional photographer or new to a different photographic genre, you most likely have some doubts about your ability. It’s not only a common feeling, but quite worthwhile in personal development. SOURCE: BlackStarRising.
http://rising.blackstar.com/dont-let-self-doubt-hold-back-your-photography-business.html
GETTING READY – What Is The Future Of Magazines On Apple’s iPad? Before Apple unveiled its big tablet, everyone in the magazine industry seemed to be talking about "the tablet" and all it held in store for declining newsstand sales and waning advertiser interest. But, people were surprised that Steve Jobs mentioned no magazines in his presentation. SOURCE: Amanda Ernst
www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlny/magazines/what_is_the_future_of_magazines_on_the_ipad_150352.asp
THE FIRST STEP -- Q&A: A New Magazine Model, Issue 1 - Jacqueline Bovaird spoke with Laura Brunow Minor, founder of Pictory Magazine. Laura has thrown out the template and started from scratch here, and the result is brilliantly simple. Big images with a simple interface and limited, meaningful text. Pictory releases a theme, to which anyone is encouraged to submit one appropriate photograph and caption. SOURCE: Jacqueline Bovaird -- http://stone-thrower.com/2010/01/27/qa-a-pictory/
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HIDING INFRINGEMENT -- When the Internet Service Provider Is Immune From Copyright Infringement Liability - The Digital Millennium Copyright Act provides immunity to Internet service providers (”ISP”) that store infringing information on their servers. This protection, however, is strictly based on the service provider meeting specific requirements established by the statute: SOURCE: Carolyn E. Wright, (the Photo Attorney®) http://www.photoattorney.com/?p=1051
Here at PSI we are doing our part to help out
photographers in this gloomy economy.
Last month it was an enticing PHOTOLETTER offer.
This month, it’s the PHOTODAILY.
If you qualify for the PhotoDaily
(…our committee needs to see your website)
We invite you to check out this video.
http://www.photosource.com/photodaily.html
ANYONE SEEN WARHOL’S PICS? In 1963 Andy Warhol gave Billy Name a 35-millimeter Honeywell Pentax camera, and he became the resident photographer and documentarian of The Factory days... at least for 7 years. He stopped in 1970 partly because of the businesslike attitude Warhol was adopting. But the NY Times reports that Name is now missing his archive of negatives! The photographer, who lives in Poughkeepsie, told them they're "in ghost land, man."
http://gothamist.com/2010/01/09/billy_name.php
TAKEAWAY: More than fifteen minutes of fame lost.
CAMERA ANTIQUITY -- First mass-produced camera heads to auction - An extremely rare model of the world’s first commercially produced camera will be auctioned later this year. The Giroux Daguerreotype camera was designed by Louis-Jacques-Mande Daguerre and produced in 1839. It will be auctioned on 29 May in Vienna for a starting price of €200,000 (£173,027). http://www.imaginginsider.com/?p=104643&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+imaginginsideronline+%28Imaging+Insider%29
TAX PLANNING
Back in 1947, tax planning was something that concerned only the wealthy. That year, taxpayers received often-quoted words of encouragement from Judge Hand: "Over and over again courts have said that there is nothing sinister in so arranging one's affairs as to keep taxes as low as possible. Everybody does so, rich and poor; and all do right, for nobody owes any public duty to pay more than the law demands; taxes are enforced exactions, not voluntary contributions. To demand more in the name of morals is mere cant."
Nowadays, financial planning throughout the year, with an eye particularly on taxes, is not just for the wealthy. Advance planning is also rewarding for most middle income individuals.
TIP. Spend a few hours plotting how to choose and implement your year-end strategies, and you may be pleasantly surprised to discover how many IRS-blessed opportunities there are to save on your taxes for this year and even gain a head start on next year. For example, it may be advantageous to buy computer supplies, printer ink or darkroom supplies in advance to reduce your net profit for this year. The main thing is to act before December 31 while there is still time to take advantage of tax angles that can generate a dramatic savings if you understand how to get the full benefit of what the law allows. Once beyond December 31, it is too late to do anything but fill out your tax forms, except for a possible contribution to a traditional IRA or a Keogh.
Julian Block, a former IRS agent and tax attorney, is the author of "Julian Block's Tax Avoidance Secrets" ($29.95 p&h included, 560 pgs. Mention you are a PhotoStockNotes subscriber and receive the book for $19.95. Julian Block, 3 Washington Sq, Larchmont NY 10538-2032). Julian can be reached at julianblock[at]yahoo[dot]com.
GET KNOWN -- Secret Social Media Marketing Recipe from Photographer John Lander - Five Ways to Use Social Media Sites to Boost Your SEO. http://blog.photoshelter.com/2010/01/photographer-john-landers-secret-social-media-mark.html
YOU PAYS FOR WHAT YA GITS: Pricing Issues: One Big Monster of a Problem - This issue on price, undercutting, ‘ruining’ the business all gets so dicey and tricky in the crazy light of the real world, I thought I would throw out some of my opinions. Here are a few subjects that keep coming up on forums and blogs all over the net. http://www.lighting-essentials.com/pricing-issues-one-big-monster-of-a-problem/
"I read and review your notes constantly. I've paid attention to you for a long time, you offer sound advice."
- Kent Wood, Photographer, Albuquerque, NM
NOTE: It’s up to you if you want to enter any of the contests we list on this page. It’s well known that some photo contest sponsors ask for free commercial use of the winning entries (or sometimes all of the entries!). You don’t have to guess who the winner of that contest is. Don’t give up any of your rights. If your photo is good enough to win a national contest, it’s good enough to earn many dollars for you in the future. So, enter photo contests keeping this in mind.
* dPS Forum Photography Competition looks like it’s going to have an ongoing series of contests with good prizes from digitalrev.com. What they want is for you to produce a photograph that says “Life.” The competition will run for four weeks beginning January 28 and first prize is up to $1600.00 USD to spend at DigitalRev, second is up to $800.00 and third is up to $500.00.
Read more:
http://digital-photography-school.com/dps-forum-photography-competition#ixzz0e9Zqggrb
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* 23rd Annual Northern National Art Competition at Nicolet Area Technical College is wide open for artists 18 and older residing in America and using a variety of media. Each artist may submit one or two slides or jpgs of recent, original 2D (wall-hang-able) work in ANY medium including drawing, painting, printmaking, photography, fiber, mixed media and work that has some sculptural elements. There is over $8500 in prize money including three $1000 Awards of Excellence. Entries must be postmarked by May 15. This year’s judge/juror is photographer Larry McNeil, who teaches all levels of photography, including digital imaging, at Boise State College in Idaho. Larry’s own work can be seen at http://www.larrymcneil.com/and is worth looking at even if you are not likely to enter the contest.
For more information on the contest see:
http://www.nicoletcollege.edu/community/eventsentertainment/artgallery/nnac.html
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* The editors of Nature's Best Photography magazine invite all photographers to enter the 14th Annual Windland Smith Rice International Awards competition for 2010. All winning images will be published in the 2010 Collectors Edition of Nature's Best Photography magazine. In addition, the category Winners and a selection of Highly Honored photographs will be displayed in an exhibition at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History in Washington, DC. The Grand Prize will also win a "Yellowstone in Winter" photo workshop provided by Arizona Highways Photo Workshops. Entries are judged on technical quality, originality, and artistic merit. Enter up to 20 images for an entry fee of $25 US dollars (no foreign checks).
Deadline: April 5, 2010.
For more details: http://www.naturesbestphotography.com/enter_guidelines.php
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* Win a prestigious award, up to £20,000 worth of prizes and exposure in a nationwide (United Kingdom) touring exhibition and accompanying book. After a successful first year and widely acclaimed photographic exhibition celebrating British wildlife, The British Wildlife Photography Awards announce the launch of their second competition, now open for entries. Established to celebrate and recognize the talents of photographers of all nationalities practicing in the UK, while at the same time highlight the great wealth and diversity of British natural history, BWPA are looking to build on recent successes and are introducing several new categories, including a special award for conservation photography and a category dedicated to British biodiversity and native species under threat, reflecting the fact that 2010 has been declared International Year of Biodiversity, by the United Nations.
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Main Awards and Prizes will total up to £20,000, including British Wildlife Photographer £5,000, Young British Wildlife Photographer (under 18) £500 & a Schools, Youth and Community Group Award £1,000. The winner of each category will receive prizes with a total value of around £1,000.
Categories
1. Animal Portraits
2. Animal Behavior
3. Urban Wildlife
4. Hidden Britain
5 Coast and Marine
6. Wildlife in my Back Yard
7. Habitat
8 British Seasons
9. International Year of Biodoversity
10. The 2020VISION Special Award
For more information:
http://www.bwpawards.org/
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* The first Scott Dunn photography competition. Send your best shot from your holiday - either a ‘FACE’ or a ‘PLACE’ and you could be taking photos with a new Leica D-Lux 4 digital camera on a weekend getaway to Florence, staying at the chic JK Place and enjoying a one day photography workshop in the UK with Brett (www.bybrett.com). Shortlisted entries will be uploaded to www.scottdunn.com on a monthly basis for the winner to then be chosen by four judges. The competition closes on 30 June 2010.
For more information:
http://www.scottdunn.com/picture-perfect.html
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* The Outdoor Photographer The Great Outdoors Photo Contest (“Contest”) is open to legal residents of the 50 United States and District of Columbia, who are 18 years of age or older. Grand Prize Package: Publication of your photo in the August 2010 issue and $1,500 cash! People’s Choice Award: Online publication of the winning photo in the Winners Gallery.
For more information:
http://www.outdoorphotographer.com/photo-contests/the-great-outdoors.html
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* The Photocrati Fund offers $5000 grants to non-professional photographers to undertake important humanitarian and environmental photography projects. Their goal is to identify outstanding, up-and-coming photographers and give them the resources necessary to pursue projects that will have a tangible and positive effect on the world.
They will offer one grant in 2010. The application deadline is March 15, 2010, and the award will be announced in June 2010. Awardees become Photocrati Fellows for the calendar year from the announcement of their award until the announcement of the following year’s award.
For more information:
http://www.photocrati.com/photocrati-fund/
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West Germany Woman at stove 1957 -Rohn Engh
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MAN ASLEEP - HOFBRAU HOUSE -- Rohn Engh
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Couple at Gasthaus 1957 --Rohn Engh
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My Story
Saying Goodbye to Army Life
I was thinking the other day what a good stage the army-life was for me over there in West Germany.
Yes, a good stage, like in the theater. I mean in the sense of Shakespeare’s famous theme about the ‘world’s only a stage’, and his other famous subject, ‘the difference between seeming and being.’
Back in my high school days, the students came from mostly families that were chicken farmers there on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. During the summer vacation time, over at the beach in Ocean City, about five miles inland where we lived, I spent most of my summer time at the ocean, at the beach and on the boardwalk with people from big cities like Baltimore and Washington, and even New York. I worked at summer beach jobs, so I got a lot of chance to talk with all kinds of people, of all ages, girls, boys.
Sometimes a high school friend of mine would come walking down the boardwalk and he would wave to me on the beach and I would pretend not to see him. I would be with one of those Philadelphia girls from some suburban family and I didn’t want her to see the kind of friends I had. I know now that was wrong, making those prejudgments. One of them went on to be a prominent doctor in a Washington hospital.
And you know something? I found that Shakespeare was right, at least for me. There are two levels of seeming and being in people. Whether it was the big city people I got to know in the summertime or the locals during the rest of the year. It became clear that if I wanted to get on in life, wherever I ended up, I’d have to deal with this ‘seeming and being’ thing.
That’s why I welcomed the idea of joining the Army when I was drafted during the Korean War. It would give me a different ‘stage’ to learn from. And later on, when I decided to take my Army discharge over in Europe, I guess it was one of the prime reasons I wasn’t ready to return home to the USA. I say “guess” because I didn’t say to myself something like, “I’m curious, as long as I’m here in Europe, I’m going to go out and learn about other people.” But that’s the way it turned out. And by the way, at first, I was only intending to travel to Europe. Other circumstances that I’ll tell you about later caused me to go farther into Africa.
But back to my farewell to the U.S. Army.
Whenever I see a recruiting poster for the U.S. Army, I think of the army as a massive contraption that sucks in young men and spits out two flavors: robots and mavericks. My impression is probably all wrong because I served in a peacetime Army in Germany.
You’re probably thinking “You didn’t serve in the Army you served in a peace-keeping corporation You didn’t serve in a crackerjack combat unit like the guy s over there in Korea are doing.”
You’d be right. And, worse you could say I let a lot of Nazis into the USA. And a lot of others things I was doing in my CIC job was listening in on a lot of German citizen’s phone calls and reading their mail.
We also had these new secret agent gimmicks like pounding a spy nail into a hotel wall and listening in on the conversation in the next room or photographing them with a long telephoto camera from across the street. We had won the war and were occupying West Germany, so we could act like victors. It’s not like we made them slaves or anything like that. Like in Roman times.
I was getting unhappy with the Army. In my army career I was playing their game and turning into a robot and didn’t like what I was doing. It was only Rick who encouraged my idea of traveling Europe with my guitar and singing for my supper. He even entertained the idea of coming along with me. That idea lasted about two minutes.
But I could understand. And I could understand my parent’s response when I wrote to them. “Think of your career. You’ve invested 4 years of art education!” They also knew that I had a job waiting for me at BBD&O in Baltimore with a big salary.
No one, at 8212th AAI Unit Wuerzburg except Rick thought it a wise move for me.
“You’re wasting your life,” one advised.
“You’ll be killed on the highways,” someone said.
A sergeant warned me, “Life on the outside is mean. You’ve had a free bed and a warm meal whenever you wanted it. You’ll soon learn what’s best.” The word was getting around.
Colonel Rice, my commanding officer, ordered more to report to his office on Monday morning. He was a man of middle age and had already seen twenty-some army years. Gosh, he was loud. There was nothing tender about his cadence-calling voice that shot in spurts from his wiry frame.
He looked at me with green piercing eyes from his seated position, as I stood rigid before him in the center of his carpeted office. “At ease Engh”, he barked, shuffling through some papers.
“Well, Engh, what’s the meaning of this request I have here? What’s this, you want an overseas discharge? What do you plan to do over here, -get a job? he roared. He enjoyed shouting this conversation so that office people in the adjacent office could hear. . He stared at me and then sat back in his big ol’ executive chair and folded his arms to wait for my answer with an expression that said, “You’re wasting my time. Hurry up.”
I wasn’t excepting all this. I just thought all I had to do was sign some kind of paper and that was it.
I wished for a slight moment that I had never requested an overseas discharge.
I gathered up some courage and answered, “Sir, I plan to travel the world.”
There was a long pause, of course. In the next door office there was silence over there. I thought I heard some tittering laughter. “Well, Engh, that’s very nice,” he continued, “I’m sure we’d all like to travel the world. You must be a very rich person.”
“No, sir. I’m not.
“Well, “ he shot back, “How much money do you have for this world trip?”
“Sir, I have six hundred and forty eight dollars.” I answered as officially as I could. Of course I couldn’t tell I sill had to buy the Vespa, sleeping bag, and pup tent, and $400 of that had to go to the motor scooter agency.
The sum impressed him and he questioned, “And how long do you think you could get on with that amount of money?”
“I have no idea, sir.”
I saw by his quick change of expression this wasn’t a very proper answer.
“You realize Engh, that the U.S. Army cannot afford to discharge people overseas who will become a burden to the government .He was getting close to the reason for calling me into the office. “Unless I can be assured that you will be financially responsible in your traveling, I can see no way that I can sign your release for an overseas discharge,” He paused for awhile and then asked, “What initial provisions are you going to need for this trip?”
I had hoped he was not going to ask that question. “I figured I’d need a sleeping bag, a pup tent, a guitar, a knapsack, and a motor scooter.”
He looked at me, holding back a smile, or even bellowing laughter. He reached for a notepad and them slid it away. He rested his chin on his clasped hands with his arms planted in a solid triangle on his desk this had turned into something humorous for him. On the other hand he probably entertained the idea that he might be dealing with a “nut” case.
“You’re not traveling by train and staying in hotels?” He brought the notepad back over and started making notes.
“No” I said.
“Well then what does a sleeping bag cost,” He began.
“Fifteen dollars, sir.”
“And a guitar?” he questioned without looking up from his desk.
There was silence in the next office.
“And knapsack??” He was taping his pencil against the notepad.
“Five dollars and fifty cents, sir.”
“And a motor scooter?” he said. He was smug now.
“Four hundred dollars, sir,” I said so low I could hear it in my head but I wasn’t sure he heard it.
He didn’t.
“What? He bellowed out, looking up from his scribbling.
I repeated it.
His eyes shot back at me like one of his automatic weapons. Then he returned to total up the figures I gave him.
“That comes to four hundred and fifty five dollars and fifty cents, Engh! You mean to tell me you’re leaving here with, “ and he swiftly subtracted, “one hundred and ninety-two dollars and fifty cents?”
My throat was dry. I couldn’t answer him.
He sat back in his chair and stared at me. “I think you had better look at this a little more seriously, Engh. I’ve taken more that than that on a weekend visit to Italy.”
He shot back again, “You think this trip over from a practical viewpoint. If you ask me, forget about the whole thing. Let’s consider you receiving your discharge in Baltimore. Then you can take whatever trip you want to take.”
I saluted.
I turned to leave his office and he added, “I heard reports that your friend Tolman might be traveling with you. If this is correct, tell him he can expect to take his discharge in Philadelphia.”
“He’s decided not to go on the trip, sir.” I said.
Colonel Rice answered only with an unfriendly grin and I left.
Those were dark days back in February 1957. I had only a month to convince the colonel that I could support myself. More problems began coming up.
I contacted the British and French consulate in Frankfort and learned it was impossible to apply for a visa for the African colonies unless I had a passport. That was a problem. U.S. Army regulations said military personnel could not be issued a passport until after their discharge. Since it took three or four months for an African visa to come through, it meant a long delay in Europe before I could head off on my trip.
Want to read more?
http://www.photosource.com/psn-article/mystory3.html
NEW PATHWAYS -- The American Society of Picture Professionals (ASPP) and the Picture Archive Council of America (PACA) will produce the “Reinvention Weekend” April 15th – 18th in Boston. The entire conference is geared to Reinvent, Re-imagine and Reinvigorate your career or your approach to the photography industry. http://www.creativepro.com/article/photographers-reinvent-yourself
“Hobby became passion, passion became profession (Shokh hoechhe nesha, nesha hoeche pesha),"
Chanchal Mahmood, photographer.
In February 1860, the photographer Mathew Brady (took the first of several portraits of Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln went to New York City to give an anti-slavery speech at the Cooper Union. He thought a portrait might help his presidential campaign.
Brady was one of the first Americans to get into photography, and within a few years he was known as one of the best portrait photographers in the country. Brady was the first person to take a photograph of an American president when he photographed President Zachary Taylor in 1849.
The portrait was difficult to take, in part because Lincoln was so tall (6’4”). Brady usually used a head clamp to immobilize his subjects, but the clamp didn’t reach Lincoln’s head. So Lincoln had to stand absolutely still for several minutes of his own free will. The photograph worked out, though, and it was published on the cover of Harper’s Weekly, the equivalent of today’s New Yorker magazine. Lincoln later claimed the photograph and the Cooper’s Union speech had made him president.
Dennis Stock, Photographer of Intimate Portraits, Dies at 81
Dennis Stock, a photographer whose intimate and evocative portraits captured the essence of jazz performance and helped shape James Dean’s moody public persona, died Monday in Sarasota, Fla. He was 81
Dennis Stock: “The goal for the photographer is to be visually articulate. If the subject is in a suffering circumstance, it is all the more preferable to apply craft to the utmost. Call it art or not, we photographers should always try to pass on our observations with the utmost clarity.” SOURCE: DAVID W. DUNLAP NYTIMES. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/15/arts/design/15stock.html?emc=eta1
James Dean in Times Square - Dennis Stock
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TODAY’S PHOTOGRAPHY PARAPHERNALIA . . .
HERE TODAY….
GONE TOMORROW
If you’ve decided to put your photographic talent into the stock photo industry, remember this solid principle: No one will ever invent a substitute for pictures.
Because photography is like so many products in our gadgetry world, it’s always going to undergo improvement. Think of the first computer games.
Today’s amazing technological device is tomorrow’s souvenir. It wasn’t that the product was based on a faulty concept; it was just that an industrial society moves on and the constant element is c h a n g e.
The one element you can count on is that someone, somewhere right at this moment, is inventing a new way to take photos, a new way to deliver them, a new way to sell them, a new way to preserve them for posterity.
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Take cameras themselves. Soon that clumsy clunkiness of mirrors and shutters in SLRs will be gone and a new camera design that’s on the horizon that is lighter in weight and quiet in sound will replace today’s cameras, both amateur and professional.
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In the marketing field, I stumbled on an email in January (last month) that led to a website where a photobuyer, full figure on plain background, was announcing that her publishing company was embarking on a publishing venture of three new book topics in April: wildflowers, children’s pets, and surfing. The deadline to submit was February 15th. She promised that payment for pictures was far above the usual microstock payment and in line with standard rates.
This new approach to finding photos puts the burden on someone else and saves her time and, of course, money. The selection of photos will be probably by an editorial committee through in-house light boxes. Look for other small house publishers to improve the system.
Want to read more?
http://www.photosource.com/psn-article/heretoday.html
24 Feb, 2010 | Posted by: psn
Replacing Miriam Stein
Barbette Havriliak
Barbette Media Services, Inc.
356 West 121 Street
New York, NY 10027
T.: 212.665.5501
f.: 212.665.5502
bmsinc[at]barbettemedia[dot]com
old email
barbette[at]barbettemedia[dot]com
old phone
212 665 5501
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Anne Polsky
AARP The Magazine
Photo Dept.
601 E Street N.W.
Washington, DC 20049
Tel: 202.434.6844
apolsky[at]aarp[dot]org
reports that
Tish King
Rebecca Roth
Sari Henry
Miriam Stein
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Photo Acquisition Editor
HOBBY FARMS Magazine
2008 Mercer Road Lexington KY 40511
1 859 260 9800
muuiksma[at]bowtieinc[dot]com
replaces
Karen Keb Acevedo is no longer editor at
HOBBY FARMSMagazine
2008 Mercer Road Lexington KY 40511
1 859 260 9800
kkeb[at]bowtieinc[dot]com
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Lori Oretti
617 536 3400
Now replaces:
Glenn McGibbon
Advertising Mgr
CM Commnications
29 Newbury St.
Boston MA
gmsgibbon[at]cmcommunications[dot]com
617 536 3400
24 Feb, 2010 | Posted by: psn
Note that we don't include North American travelers because many of our members live in North America. Only travelers going abroad will be listed. Thanks
Name: Rachel Strevey
Phone: 4029811693
Email: rachel[at]chelfoto[dot]net
dates: 07/31/2010- 08/06/2010
destination: Haiti
Comments: I travel abroad annually and have been doing so for over a decade. My most recent destinations have been Rome and Barcelona and this year I am headed to volunteer in Haiti.
Rachel Strevey
www.ChelFoto.Net
Chicago, IL
402.981.1693
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Name: James Mejuto
Phone: 386-847-9501
Email: jamesmejuto[at]ymail[dot]com
dates#1: June1-June7th, 2010
destination London
Comments: I will be shooting stock of London and a few outlining towns.
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Name: Chuck Rydlewski
Phone: 630.790.2692
Email: slph[at]sbcglobal[dot]net
date: 2-26-10 to 3-5-10
destination: Cancun
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Name: D. Holden Bailey
Phone: 513-425-0538
Email: dholdenb[at]aol[dot]com
dates: 2-20-10/3-5-10
destination#1: Marquesas & Tuamotu Islands
dates#2: 3-5-10/3-8-10
destination#2: Tahiti, Bora-Bora
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Name: Jim Caldwell
Phone: 727 771-9868
Email: jamesfc[at]tampabay.rr[dot]com
dates#: 3/15- 3/25/2010
destination: Costa Rica
Comments: Indigenous Village tour in southern Costa Rica near the Panamanian border.
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GET SEEN -- Five ways to make sure your photography stands out. Scott Bourne: “Everyone – and I mean everyone has a camera. So what can you do to stand out from the crowd? If you’ve followed my advice to develop a style and fill a niche, you should have a pretty good idea who your audience is." Here are five tips.
SOURCE: Scott Bourne ; FotoFocus. http://photofocus.com/2010/02/19/five-ways-to-make-sure-your-photography-stands-out/
PHOTO: SCOTT BOURNE TAKEAWAY: THE NATURE PRO Scott Bourne reminds us that making yourself a nature photographer doesn’t mean photographing ALL nature. (“The master of none.”) But selecting a niche that is meaningful to you in nature, learniung all about that niche –and gong for it!
LEARN THE BASICS -- More photography knowledge? try these free MIT courses - Have you been yearning to step up your photography knowledge but haven’t been able to afford the required college classes? The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) allows for a large portion of the materials from previous courses to be accessed online by anyone interested in learning. Currently, there are over 1800 courses available, some of which are centered around photography. http://www.yourphototips.com/2010/02/16/want-more-photography-knowledge-try-these-free-mit-courses/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+YourPhotoTips+%28Your+Photo+Tips%29
24 Feb, 2010 | Posted by: psn
SLOW MOTION -- Proof that bees do fly. Shooting at over 2,000 frames per second, Time Warp's high-speed camera showed a bee fervently flapping its wings. The fascination with slow motion photography has a long history -- about as long as the history of photography itself.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/pictureshow/2010/02/super_slowmo_photography.html
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WHERE ARE YOU? -- Nystrom Herff-Jones Education Division is looking for the following photographers: Adrian Masters, Ann Bancroft, David Robert, Dennis Hallinan, George White, Jacques Jangoux, Michael Hoare, Gines Quinero Santiago, Richard Simpson, Robert Buffington, Steve Elmore, Sydney Freelance, and Sylvain Grandadam.
If you have information about any of these photographers/artists that you would like to share, contact Chris Nelson, editor, at ccnelson[at]herffjones[dot]com or 773-279-3297..
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DON’T READ THIS -- Top 10 ways to make sure you’ll never be a pro. - If you really want to thwart any chance you might have of becoming a pro photographer, here, presented in traditional count-down order, are 10 ways to make sure you’ll never turn your dream into a profession. SOURCE: Paul Burwell http://www.paulburwell.com/blog/2010/02/top-10-ways-to-make-sure-youll-never-be-a-pro/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Wildshots+%28Wildshots%29
TAKEAWAY: Not everyone wants to be a pro, nevertheless, these are some good pointers.
SHOOTING COMMERCIAL -- The best-selling popular photography subjects - what are they? There are topics that are more in demand than others. Whether you decide to compete against the many photographers who put models in suits and hold clipboards or focus on a passion that allows you to bypass the masses and fill a niche, the only way to actually generate those sales is to consistently create good pictures.
http://blogs.photopreneur.com/the-best-selling-popular-photography-subjects?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PhotopreneurBlog+%28Photopreneur+Blog%29
GET IT IN WRITING -- Writing Your Photography Marketing Plan - A marketing plan is a dynamic document that acts as a guideline for all of your marketing efforts. As such, it’s a valuable tool for avoiding “pitifully poor performance.” SOURCE: Matthew Kauffmann; BlackStar Rising
http://rising.blackstar.com/writing-your-photography-marketing-plan.html
http://news.google.com/news/search?aq=f&um=1&cf=all&ned=us&hl=en&q=photo+business
24 Feb, 2010 | Posted by: psn
TWENTY CANDLES– Happy Birthday! Photoshop Hits Twenty. The software product that redefined creativity in the digital age, turned 20 on Feb. 19, 2010. Around the world, Photoshop fans are celebrating the impact their favorite software has had across photography, art, design, publishing and commerce. In the United States, the National Association of Photoshop Professionals (NAPP) will
be hosting... http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Adobe-Photoshop-Hits-bw-969994560.html?x=0&.v=1
TAKEAWAY: Does that mean in one more year, Adobe Photoshop will be a mature adult? (21). Of course if Photoshop wants to appear as an adult, Adobe needs only to Photoshop an extra candle onto the cake.
GOING GREEN -- Company announces green disposal of photo processing equipment - AAA Imaging is offering green disposal services for all products relating to photo processing, such as film processors, printers, paper processors, analog and digital minilabs, photo kiosks, dye-sub and inkjet printers and color copiers. The company does not accept items that contain liquid, biological, or radiological wastes. SOURCE: Jennifer Kruger; NewsLine http://pmanewsline.com/2010/02/20/aaa-imaging-announces-green-disposal-of-photo-processing-equipment/
TAKEAWAY: Thanks to an observant company.
24 Feb, 2010 | Posted by: psn
Kwaku Alston Adapts His Site for iPhones – Learn another way a photographer is using iPhone technology to market his work to clients. SOURCE: Jacqueline Tobin PhotoDistrict NEWS
http://www.pdnonline.com/pdn/content_display/features/pdn-online/e3ia3e3c4472acac5d9a3a436d7e9411105
24 Feb, 2010 | Posted by: psn
CHANGES AT CORBIS -- Corbis simplifies rights managed licensing model - Corbis is making changes to its online calculator for rights managed images in an effort to make licensing simpler. Rajiv Jain, CTO and SVP/General Manager (That’s a lot of titles for one person…) said Corbis has reinvented the rights managed licensing model and “brought the RM price calculator into the internet age”. http://www.fastmediamagazine.com/?p=4192
24 Feb, 2010 | Posted by: psn
THE WAY WE ARE At the Olympics we are seeing the new phenomenon of self-evidence photography. “I was there. Here’s proof.” And why not? In the opening day of the parade of the Olympiads, the athletes had as many flashing cameras as the audience. taking a picture of the event. And this brings the question: “Does experiencing an event without photographing it render more value to the person than snapping away with your camera?”
Hint: Is the fish story more entertaining to the fisherperson than the actual picture of the catch itself.?
24 Feb, 2010 | Posted by: psn
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24 Feb, 2010 | Posted by: psn
WHAT’S YOURS IS OURS -- In the UK: The Digital Economy Bill ( Section 42 sections 16a, 16b, 16c enable ad hoc regulation ) is now expected to become law within the next 6 weeks. It introduces orphan works usage rights, which - unless amended, which HMG says it will not - will allow the commercial use of any photograph whose author cannot be identified through a suitably negligent search. That is potentially about 90% of the photos on the internet.
http://copyrightaction.com/forum/uk-gov-nationalises-orphans-and-bans-non-consensual-photography-in-public
Also: http://copyrightaction.com/digital-economy-bill-with-latest-amendments
TAKEAWAY: Should you start watermarking everything? No, instead deal in a narrow niche of photo needs where you are making pictures of a subject matter that appeals to you. You'll find matching publishers out there. If your photo collection is deep enough, you’ll be partners with that publisher for a lifetime.
This message above is correctly shouting to you that now it is more imperative than ever to stop considering stock photography as an arena where you snap away at generic stock pictures with no game to market them somewhere except your favorite image gallery where you reside with millions (soon to be be billions) of other images. You should instead focus on a niche of your choosing and find buyers that match your topic area of interest and hook up with them. That’s the answer and it’s a cozy way most successful stock shooters operate. Quit making ‘stock schlock’ generic photos. Period. -RE
24 Feb, 2010 | Posted by: psn
Microstock Money Shots – Book Review - Ellen Boughn’s book will be released later this year. It’s called ‘Microstock Money Shots – Turning Downloads into Dollars with Microstock Photography’. Lee Torrens is honored to be a small part of the book and the first to publish a review. http://www.microstockdiaries.com/microstock-money-shots.html
24 Feb, 2010 | Posted by: psn
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24 Feb, 2010 | Posted by: psn
Social Event or Networking?
Question: I went to a get-together with some fellow photographers. There wasn’t a speaker; it was more of a social event. But I see it as networking with my professional colleagues, and most of the talk was about work-related issues. Can I take a business-expense deduction for the cost of getting there? How about my cash contribution to the refreshments for the group?
Answer: The event does qualify. You're entitled to claim the entire cost of round-trip travel between your home and block, the party's site. For travel by bus, train, or taxi, just keep track of your fares and claim them as business expenses; for auto travel, you can claim actual expenses or a standard mileage allowance. That standard allowance for tax year 2009 is 55cents a mile. Whether you claim actual expenses or use the mileage allowance, remember to deduct parking fees and bridge, tunnel and turnpike tolls that you pay while you are on business, too.
When you travel away from home on business, you should keep records of all the expenses you have.. You can use a log, diary, notebook, or any other written record to keep track of your expenses.
Can you deduct meals ? Yes, in most cases. Go here to find out the rulrs: http://www.irs.gov/publications/p463/ch01.html#en_US_publink100033781
SOURCE: Government publications and Julian Block, Esq.
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24 Feb, 2010 | Posted by: psn
PMA CONFERENCE -- Sony Introduces Compact DSLR Concept. Get a first look at Sony's pocket-sized camera. The Photo Marketing Association's 2010 conference is going on right now. Right now! And if you somehow managed to sneak in, you'd probably be taken aback by a new concept camera from Sony. A new entry in the alpha line, the compact α DSLR combines the form factor of a point-and-shoot with the visual acuity of a full-fledged DSLR. It features interchangeable lenses, an Exmor APS HD CMOS sensor, and HD quality playback and recording.
http://gear.ign.com/articles/107/1071134p1.html Source: Chris Burke ; Gear.ign
24 Feb, 2010 | Posted by: psn
EASY ON THE EYES -- World's Best-Designed newspapers announced - Two newspapers from Germany and one from the USA have been awarded the title of World's Best-Designed for 2009, in a competition run by The Society for News Design. SOURCE: Elizabeth Redman . EditorsWeblog http://www.editorsweblog.org/newspaper/2010/02/worlds_best-designed_newspapers_announce.php
24 Feb, 2010 | Posted by: psn
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24 Feb, 2010 | Posted by: psn
NOTE: It’s up to you if you want to enter any of the contests we list on this page. It’s well known that some photo contest sponsors ask for free commercial use of the winning entries (or sometimes all of the entries!). You don’t have to guess who the winner of that contest is. Don’t give up any of your rights. If your photo is good enough to win a national contest, it’s good enough to earn many dollars for you in the future. So, enter photo contests keeping this in mind.
* Some good contests this week. Let’s start off with a fabulous vanity prize. 100 Medals from the Royal Canadian Mint with your image on them. Who could ask for anything more? You could pass them out like Thomas Jefferson to the natives did ---his Jefferson Peace Medals. They want a photo or video from Canadian fans of the Olympic Games who want to show why they are the greatest fans the Canadian Olympics have. It’s important that you have a lot of friends willing to vote to that effect as well. First prize winners also get a trip for two to Ottawa on Canada Day this summer 2010 to receive the prize. Submissions open until March 21.
For more details:
http://face.mint.ca/themintdetails/eng/
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* Next we head for the Mother Country, Great Britain, for a major contest for Garden Photographer of the Year. This year they have a new format, “4 Seasons,” which allow photographers to win cash prizes throughout the year. Top prizes include £5,000 cash. First theme is Winter Beauty with a closing date of February 28th, but everyone who enters goes automatically through to the main International Garden Photographer of the Year competition with a closing date of 30th November 2010. Spring into Life: 1 March - 31 May, Insect Beauties: 1 June - 31 August, Autumn Shapes: 1 September - 30 November
For more details:
http://www.igpoty.com/competition.asp
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* The inaugural 2010 EPSON International Pano Awards is dedicated to the art of panoramic photography. The Open category is open to professional, non-professional and student photographers. The Amateur category is to non-professional and student photographers only. Subject matter Categories for both groups are 1) Nature (including landscapes) and 2) The Built Environment (including architecture). The competition is now open until April 30 with a combined prize pool of over US$13,000 in cash and prizes.
For more details:
http://www.thepanoawards.com/
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* Saving the most prestigious for last: Hasselblad 2010 Masters Awards. Each year Hasselblad awards the title of Master photographers in a range of specially defined categories. Awards are granted in recognition of the photographer’s contribution to the art of photography and photographic ability in the areas of creativity, composition, conceptual strength, and technical skill. Hasselblad is currently inviting photographers to submit photographs to be considered for the 10th annual Masters Awards. The 2010 competition will feature a new category to cover wildlife photography. One Master will be chosen for each of the eleven categories. Each of the 2010 winners, one from each category, will receive a framed diploma certifying their Masters‘ status and a presentation of their work on the Hasselblad website. Winners will also be given the use of an H4D camera, the flagship of the Hasselblad system, with which to capture images for a unique, commemorative photography book, with each winner rendering a personal interpretation of a given theme. Photographers must have been active* professionals for more than three years. To be eligible for judging, submitted pho tos must be shot using some form of medium or large format system. No 35mm photography will be accepted.
*There is also another form or version of the contest called “Up and Coming” 2010 that is open to all professional photographers and in which photographs may be shot with large format, medium format, or 35 mm digital systems. The closing date for all submissions is December 31, 2010.
For more details: http://www.hasselblad.com/masters-2010-is-open.aspx
23 Feb, 2010 | Posted by: psn
My Story
7
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FARM WIFE NEAR DUTCH BORDER - 1957
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MY LAST SKETCH IN GERMANY - 1957
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BRATWURST SELLER - 1957
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RAIN TALK - 1957
On the outskirts of town that afternoon, I pulled my Vespa into an inviting grassy knoll on the edge of the river. A couple of big trees were on either side. A campfire was still smoldering inbetween. The campers had thrown some water on it. I set up my pup tent and sleeping bag. I would spend the night here.
Across the Rhine River’s width, giant redstone castles of the 15th century lay aging in the hillside greenery. Boy! What a sight! Just like the post cards. I decided to make a sketch of the scene.
The warm May sun beat down on me as I worked on the sketch. There was activity on the river. A touring ship filled with sightseers was sailing by. People waved to me. The tourists probably couldn’t see I was sketching the scenery. Some waved to me. Young boys were rowing boats near the shoreline. They waved to me.
I was finding out that my sketchbook and my guitar were passports of friendship for me as I traveled. The guitar seemed to say, “We have something in common –music.” And the sketchbook said, “You like my village, or churches, or bridges enough that you choose to sketch it.” That was pretty good. It was like having these two companions along with me too. I didn’t look like a vagrant or a highway robber or something to someone.
Now that’s a nice thing. So if you’re planning on taking a vagabond trip, there’s two secrets for you. Take a guitar and a sketchbook along, even if you don’t know how to use them!
The highway down the hill from my knoll was buzzing with tiny European cars breezing along with open windows loaded with picnickers. As they zipped by some of the passengers could see me atop the knoll. Some waved to me.
I put down my sketchbook and relaxed in the pleasant surroundings. I found myself in a zone I had come to recognize. The whole world seemed happy, and most of all, me! So far, my trip was going well. I was sorta numb. Was this freedom? I felt suspended in an atmosphere I had not known. Flashes of memories came back to me of the last day of school in 5th grade where all of us went through that thick heavy oak front door of Lincoln Grammar into the bright June outdoors realizing we had the whole summer ahead of us. It belonged to us. Freedom always seems like something you once had, not something you were presently experiencing. Well, I was experiencing it.
I sat on the green plot at the edge of the Rhine, basking in my thoughts. Not only the summer stretched out before me as all mine, but my whole life. I had no wristwatch. N o calendar, no To-Do list, no agenda. There were no more schedules, bells, loud noises, key chains, clocks, telephones. Time didn’t matter. I was free to do anything in whatever direction I chose.
There would be no disturbing knocks at the door of my life. That mirror on the edge of my shoulder examining my every moment, was missing, something had shattered it. This was great. Those warnings from my friends in Wuerzburg were just fading words. I had cancelled my career and headed off with the wind.
Was this my reward? I thought to myself. For some fleeting moments I was experiencing that elusive feeling of freedom. Would I capture this again on my trip?
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23 Feb, 2010 | Posted by: psn
Beijing: Behind the Scenes (July)
Chinese culture through your photography. Join Sean Justice for a behind-the-scenes, upclose and personal tour of Beijing, an urban powerhouse and city of many charms. Our host, the Three Shadows Photography Art Center, is a contemporary gallery and research institute devoted to photography as a fine art.
Instructor: Sean Justice
Dates: One-Week Workshops7/5/10 - 7/15/10
International Center of Photography
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23 Feb, 2010 | Posted by: psn
IN INDIA -- In recent years, there has been a sudden emergence of young female artists willing to challenge social norms. The images break free from stultifying convention and from the customs of photography; they transport us to a state of vertigo.” Gallery BMB’s new exhibition curated by Bose Krishnamachari celebrates this emergence. Bose says, “Historically, very few women artists survived after marriage and children.” SOURCE: Priyanka Shewakramani / DNA
http://www.dnaindia.com/lifestyle/report_young-female-artists-willing-to-challenge-social-norms_1351211
23 Feb, 2010 | Posted by: psn
“When the novice photographer starts taking pictures, he carries his camera about and shoots everything that interests him. There comes a time when he must crystallize his ideas and set off in an particular direction. He must learn that shooting for the sake of shooting is dull and unprofitable”.
- Alexey Brodovitch - Photography, February 1964 [cited in: Creative Camera February 1972, p. 472]
23 Feb, 2010 | Posted by: psn
February
1983. The first film close-up was made, in the laboratory of Thomas Edison in East Orange, NJ. The photo is of Edison's assistant, Fred Ott, who was sneezing at the time, and is titled: "The Sneeze."
1977. The first 35mm color transparency was magnified 516 times, taken by Ernst Haas, and exhibited by Eastman Kodak Company at Grand Central Station, NYC. It was 18x60 feet and consisted of 20 panels which were spliced together and placed on an 18-foot spiral. It depicted a herd of impala grazing in Kenya.
23 Feb, 2010 | Posted by: psn
Anita V. Mozley dies at 81 As curator of photography at the Stanford Museum of Art, Anita Ventura
Mozley organized exhibitions on Edward Muybridge, Ansel Adams, Joseph Raphael and Robert Frank. She also expanded the museum's photography collection.
http://news.stanford.edu/news/2010/february15/anita-mozley-obit-021610.html
17 Feb, 2010 | Posted by: psn
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---------FOR THE BEGINNING STOCK PHOTOGRAPHER
TIME IS GOLD
Do you enjoy making money? If you answer no to that question then the rest of this article would be a waste of your time. But if your answer is yes, then consider this:
Time, to the creative person, is more important than money. It’s something money can’t buy – any time you find yourself squandering your time, you’re tossing away your potential profits, much like the lemonade stand proprietor who, without disciplining himself, drinks his profits.
Creative people are famous for “wasting time” by spending it trying to make money to support their creative habit. They spend time moonlighting at a fast-food restaurant, or a construction job, to gain the money to buy tripods, cameras, software, lenses. Because they take time away from their picture-taking and picture-marketing, they find themselves running in place financially and professionally, never moving ahead.
THE SQUANDERERS
Others squander their time outside their day job on activities that have little to do with their mission of marketing their pictures. If you are a home gardener, did you ever figure out how much time you spend in your garden? One hour a day for 6 months is 180 hours. What kind of solid Market List could you build if you devoted 180 hours to researching and adding to your Market List this spring and summer? Once you discover which editors are out there with $10,000 to $20,000-a-month photography budgets waiting for your specialized photographs, those golden homegrown carrots won’t be so liable to distract you from operating your own real gold-making machinery.
"I’ve heard all the alibis: gardeners, golfers, dog trainers, hikers, and tennis players have when I ask them why they are pursuing these hobbies rather than building a solid Market List. I have a three-word reply for them: “Excuses, excuses, excuses.”
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17 Feb, 2010 | Posted by: psn
Company COMPLEX
Name: Greg Garry
Title: Photo Director
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Name: Marian Isel Barragan
Title: Photo Director
Address: 40th West 23rd St, 2nd Fl
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Name: Tina Marteneze
Title: Assistant Editor
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Company MORRIS ANIMAL FOUNDATION
Name: Tina Marteneze
Title: Marketing Manager
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17 Feb, 2010 | Posted by: psn
Saving Money in Your
Editorial Stock Business
Editorial Stock Business
by Mikael Karlsson
One of the most well-known talk radio hosts on financial matters is Dave Ramsey. His mantra is always the same. Don't go into debt. If you can't afford to buy something without going into debt simply don't do it.
While this makes a lot of sense it's not always practical, especially for those of us who are running a business. Keeping up with demands from customers you'll sometimes find that you need to invest in new equipment before you can pay cash. There's also always the risk of technology and equipment simply breaking down and needing immediate replacement.
One way of saving money is not to spend money on taxes that by legal right you’re not required to. Of course, check out this financial strategy with a registered tax advisor who deals with home-office entrepreneurs. You’ll be surprised about some deductions you were missing – and therefore losing money on.
Here are a few tips.
Home Office deductions
Many folks used to be reluctant to take a deduction for having an office in their homes. It was thought that this somehow made the IRS think you were trying to cheat on your taxes. This simply isn't true anymore and the fact is that if you have an office dedicated to your stock photo business use in your home you are likely eligible for significant deductions on your taxes.
Ask your local tax experts for help with the details. The key is to measure your office space in your home and relate that measurement to your total living area. This includes a percent of the cost of upkeep and improvements to your office area as it relates to your normal home expense. If it works out to 1/8 (in measurement) to the size of your home, then the heating/air conditioning expense is reduced by 1/8. So it goes for your new roof. One caveat in this area: If you sell your house, and therefore your business office, these deductions may be retrievable by the IRS, depending on current IRS rulings.
Are you taking all the deductions you can and are allowed by the law? Do you keep records that are viable enough to see you through an audit? There is a huge potential for savings on your yearly tax-bill. Especially if you have invested in computers, cameras/lenses, fax, photocopier, or any other expensive equipment for your business.
I recommend that you check with a local CPA for your taxes. Maybe even have one do your taxes for you. I do, both for my business as well as the personal taxes for my wife, Ruth ,and myself. The cost is roughly $200 per year but the savings making sure I take advantage of the allowable deductions quickly cover and outweigh the cost.
And if your tax advisor is knowledgeable in the area of intellectual properties you might be able save even more since that person will be aware of deductions that a person from, say H&R Block, might not know about.
Photojournalist Mikael Karlsson has 28 years' experience of working for magazines and newspapers in more than 30 countries. He moved to the United States in 1998 from his native Sweden. He lives in Nebraska and is currently US correspondent for 11 Swedish magazines and writes a how to photograph column for PhotoStockNOTES. Reach to Mikael via email .
17 Feb, 2010 | Posted by: psn
Note that we don't include North American travelers because many of our members live in North America. Only travelers going abroad will be listed. Thanks
Name: Chuck Rydlewski
Phone: 630.790.2692
Email: slph[at]sbcglobal[dot]net
dates#1: 2-26-10 to 3-5-10
destination#1: Cancun
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Name: James Mejutoj
Phone: 386-847-9501
Email: jamesmejuto[at]ymail[dot]com
dates#1: June1-June7th,2010
destination: London
Comments: I will be shooting stock of London and a few outlining towns.
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Name: D. Holden Bailey
Phone: 513-425-0538
Email: dholdenb[at]aol[dot]com
dates#1: 2-20-10/3-5-10
destination#1: Marquesas & Tuamotu Islands
dates#2: 3-5-10/3-8-10
destination#2: Tahiti, Bora-Bora
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Name: Nicole Riley
Phone: 310 8227059
Email: lovingcare53[at]hotmail[dot]com
dates#1: March 11-21
destination#1: Bavaria, Germany
Comments: Lots of castles, churches, breweries...
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NO FIREWORKS, PLEASE -- What’s Wrong With A Flash Website For A Photographer’s Business? - You don’t need the bells and whistles. You don’t need complicated galleries and Flash popping here and there. With your web presence, you need two things. 1. Simplicity 2. Content. http://virtualphotographystudio.com/photographyblog/2010/02/11/whats-wrong-with-a-flash-website-for-a-photographers-business/
KISS -- Composition Tips – Simplicity - A photograph that is composed with simplicity in mind will often draw the viewer’s attention and emotion in a more significant way than a shot that is too “busy”, has a cluttered background, or has “too much going on”. http://www.beyondmegapixels.com/2010/02/composition-tips-%e2%80%93-simplicity/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+BeyondMegapixels+%28Beyond+Megapixels%29
17 Feb, 2010 | Posted by: psn
KEEPIN’ IN TOUCH -- Ten Twitter Lists All Photographers Should Follow - Twitter Lists let you search and subscribe to other users' lists*. What are the elements of a good Twitter List? Grover Sanschagrin lists ten Twitter list to follow. http://blog.photoshelter.com/2010/02/ten-twitter-lists-all-photographers-should-follow.html
GOOGLE GOGGLES GETS GOING – Google Goggles, which creates search queries based on images instead of typed-in keywords, will soon start to be able to translate from foreign languages using Google Translate. This will be a big improvement for stock photographers who often forget to take down and utilize important keywords when they take a picture. Keywords make it useful for photo researchers and photo editors to find the exact picture they need, not just one “good enough for government work.” A picture is worth a thousand words. This is just the beginning - it's not quite perfect yet. Works well for some things, but not for all. You are more in control of your datasbase of pictures, once Google Goggles Getd Going. SOURCE: Erick Schonfeld TechCrunch.com Interested? More infoprmation at: http://www.google.com/mobile/goggles/#landmark
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/16/AR2010021603030.html
TAKEAWAY: As soon as Google perfects a system for recognizing, the contents of an image, the better for stock photographers to get their editorial pictures in the hands of researchers who look for specific pictures, not general category (generic) images.
17 Feb, 2010 | Posted by: psn
HOW’D HE DO THAT? -- A Resource for Travel Photography in California is Available on Kindle. A California travel photography guide, California Photo Scout, offers inspiring photographs of popular destinations along with advice on how to take them yourself. http://ca.myphotoscout.com/
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17 Feb, 2010 | Posted by: psn
MORE OPPORTUNITIES -- Stock Photography Agencies for Amateur Photographers - There are options that allow photographers to sell licenses for real money while still enjoying minimal acceptance requirements and open opportunities. Here are five of them. http://blogs.photopreneur.com/stock-photography-agencies-for-amateur-photographers?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PhotopreneurBlog+%28Photopreneur+Blog%29
FREE WHEELING -- Is Fotomoto a threat to traditional stock agencies? - The company allows photographers to sell their images and products on their own website without directing them elsewhere. It’s primary focus is selling photography for prints and cards but in principle the system allows for any type of licensing, including usage. http://www.fastmediamagazine.com/?p=4050
ANOTHER WAY -- Photoseekers tell them what they want. Photographers show them their best shots. Seekers buy the photo they like best. www.focalpop.com/
17 Feb, 2010 | Posted by: psn
GET WITH IT -- If You Can’t Be Original, You Should at Least Be Honest - What Peter Phun finds disturbing is that some beginning photographers don’t seem to value originality. In fact, they don’t even understand the difference between learning photography and creating photography. They think that snapping a shutter is what photography is about. http://rising.blackstar.com/if-you-cant-be-original-you-should-at-least-be-honest.html
17 Feb, 2010 | Posted by: psn
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17 Feb, 2010 | Posted by: psn
COMPENSATION -- NY photographer wins $30,000 in wrongful arrest case - It was exactly a year ago that Robert Taylor was arrested for photographing trains in the New York City subway system and charged with “unauthorized photography.”. Has the legal settlement made a difference in how photographers are treated within the nation’s largest subway system? Not even close. http://carlosmiller.com/2010/02/10/ny-photographer-wins-30000-in-wrongful-arrest-case/
17 Feb, 2010 | Posted by: psn
THOSE SHOEBOX SLIDES -- 10,000 Photos Prepared for Scanning in 2-Minutes Using Kodak Technology at ScanMyPhotos.com. - That’s a big number, but according to The Photo Preservation Center, "many households collectively have more than 10,000 analog photo snapshots stored away in shoeboxes."
"Now, generations of family photos are prepared for scanning in under 2-minutes. That’s all it takes to click on ScanMyPhotos.com and order the new prepaid fill-the-box Family Generation Collection service," said Goldstone .
http://blog.scanmyphotos.com/2008/04/10000-photos-prepared-for-scanning-in-2.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TailsFromTheWorldOfPhotoScanning+%28Tails+From+the+World+of+Photo+Scanning%29
TAKEAWAY: The editorial stock photographer's question is, "Are the scanned slides good enough for licensing to a photobuyer?"
Editorial stock photography is not as strict as commercial stock photography when it comes to resolution. If you have a picture of Ronald Reagan on a horse in front of his boyhood home in Dixon, IL, a researcher will look differently at it for use, quarter page, in a middle-school text book - than a photo editor for a coffee table book producer, or an ad agency.
ALSO: Here's why it's impotant to keyword all of your scanned slides that you think might sell in your lifetime or your heir's lifetime or longer.
LEARN BY DOING -- Nik Software Daily Webinars - Nik Software announced a new free daily webinar series set on introducing the company’s digital photographic tools to current customers as well as those who have not yet purchased any Nik Software products. www.niksoftware.com/daily http://shutterbug.com/news/020810nik/#
17 Feb, 2010 | Posted by: psn
WHAT’S A WINNER? -- Shooting a Perfect Stock Photo. Ellen Boughn says, “ The photo below is an almost perfect stock photo. It is not cutting edge or trendy. It is not hip or cool. What it is though, it is a photo that will license over and over for years.
www.ellenboughn.com/shooting-a-perfect-stock-photo
TAKEAWAY: O.K. class. What is missing? What does it still need? Answer from the back of the room: "It's missing a symbol, and family interaction with that symbol..."
Instructor: "Please explain."
Student: "The symbol could be a plastic shovel and the family could be building a sand castle. Or the symbol could be a telescope and the kids could be taking turns viewing the sailing ship or something out on the horizon."
Instructor: "You've got it. You've got a clean background, persons, a symbol, and involvement with that symbol. You're picture now has dimension. Your viewing public can relate to your editorial stock photo.
17 Feb, 2010 | Posted by: psn
FINDING ASSETS -- Controversial Auction Sells Warhols From Polaroid’s Collection - As Polaroid, that once mighty photo giant, withers away in bankruptcy court, a chunk of its remarkable photography collection will be dispersed at a controversial sale set for June 21 and 22 at Sotheby’s in New York. http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=a49VdCIF36ZQ
17 Feb, 2010 | Posted by: psn
Jacob Holdt. A Danish photographer’s view of America. Looking for adventure, Holdt, the 23-year-old son of a pastor, had planned to start his trip in Canada and travel to Chile via the United States. But on the way to South America, he encountered so much injustice, misery and poverty in the US that he abandoned his plans. He was shocked and at the same time fascinated by the contradictions of American society and wanted to experience those paradoxes for himself. His photos, are now on display in Braunschweig, Germany, showing a haunting America. SOURCE: Christoph Gunkel. Der Spiegel.
His photos, are now on display in Braunschweig, Germany.
http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,678291,00.html
17 Feb, 2010 | Posted by: psn
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First Place: the opportunity to turn your photojournalism into a beautiful coffee-table book. Blurb, custom book publishers for the masses, will allow the winner to produce and customize their own bookstore-quality book or books, up to the value of £50. Second Place will receive 60 postcards of their best work, beautifully printed onto glossy stock. Third place takes a set of Moo’s innovative mini-cards, ideal for creating a pocket portfolio with a range of your images to enhance your personal brand as a photojournalist.
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* Habitat World, the quarterly magazine of Habitat for Humanity International, is announcing the premiere of the 2010 Habitat World Photo Contest. Habitat World is look for photographs of volunteers and families who are receiving a home, or from Habitat building sites. Photos should reflect the need for affordable, adequate housing and Habitat’s life-changing work around the world.
The contest winner will be awarded a Habitat Global Village trip to Pokhara, Nepal. Habitat World will pay for the winner’s air transportation, modest accommodations and meals.
The contest closes at midnight, April 11, Eastern Daylight Time.
For more information:
http://www.daylightmagazine.org/blog/2010/2/11/691
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First Place winner will receive $500.00 (U.S.)
Second Place winner will receive $300.00 (U.S.)
Third Place winner will receive $200.00 (U.S.)
Three submissions will be chosen for Honorable Mention.
For more information:
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My Story
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ALONG THE RHINE - 1957
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BROTHERS NEAR RUDESHEIM - 1957
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ROHN IN THE HAYLOFT - 1957
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TWINS
6
I was confused when I woke up. Where was I? No scratchy 78 rpm record player blasting reveille outside my window. No sounds of guys walking or rushing to the john down the hall. No guys in the lavatory bumping elbows brushing teeth, slippery tile floors, urinals, smelly excretions from guys falling asleep on the toilet, bad beer breath from the night before, no moaning and bitching about hangovers. No guys asking if they could borrow your razor, guys shouting back and forth about “the gal I saw you with” and “did you ding her.?”. No rushing to Roll Call out in the quadrangle to get there in time to get a few brownie points from the assembly Captain. I forget his name.
Today it felt like Sunday. No rush. I could turn over and get back to sleep. But I didn’t.
I rubbed my eyes and looked around at this guy’s bedroom. A university student.
A cross hung on the wall above the bed. It wasn’t a Maltese Cross it was a Christian cross. Another was across the room by the dresser. They must be Catholic or Lutheran. Probably Catholic in this part of Germany.
It’s funny, at my unit in Wuerzburg, guys didn’t really know anything about the Germans. They didn’t even know the language except “Wo ist der Bahnhof?” or something like that. Most of them were hostile to Germans. The Staff Sergeant, who was a “lifer” in the Army now 20 years told me once. “I didn’t see them as people, I was just shooting at uniforms.”
Back at Wuerzburg, the guys probably would have ostracized me if they learned I spent the night in a German guy’s bed.
I looked around some more. A picture of his girl friend on the bureau, or was it a cousin, or his mother before the war? Pretty girl. A picture of a guy in uniform. His brother, maybe? They didn’t mention him. I didn’t want to ask. And I won’t.
Back in Wuerzburg in the taverns and park benches, I had my fill of conversations about killed and gone friends and relatives. I had a habit of digging down into people’s lives, asking questions. I’m sure that’s why I was eager to learn the German language when the Army sent me to Oberammergau to learn it.
I wanted to talk to the people. I’m sure I would’ve failed German if I ‘d taken German in high school, just like I failed Spanish. I admire people who can learn things for no other reason that just to learn them. Like Latin or Greek.
I don’t know if the Germans resented me always asking questions. I couldn’t help it. It just came out. My curiosity, I mean. I guess that’s why I didn’t mind my Army job. I had a license to ask questions. As far as the answers, I don’t know how much of it was true. I guess they told me what they figured I wanted to hear.
The conversations were always the same. They never defended their involvement in the war, they didn’t know anything about Jews in concentration camps, and the High Command only broadcast the good stuff like their victories in Poland and Russia. And how the people cheered and welcomed the German Army into Austria. This idea of radio and movies telling people what they wanted to hear must've been exciting. Going to the movies back them, I mean like in the early 40's and they would have The News before the movie started. No one was late for that. Everyone was hushed and seated. and they would see resulted of when German submarines were blasting boats out of the water, and sailors were floating in the oily fires. Or a shell wolud blast a Russian tank. That was better than the movie itself.
When you walked out of the movie in broad daylight itself and saw a German soldier in uniform, you'd probably want to go up to him and hug him, or be eager to send your own son, when he was 16 or 17, to the recruitment station to sign up. It must've all been so exciting.
When the tide turned, the people were in the dark except for propaganda. That must’ve been tough. The radio played music instead of showing the losses in Russia or North Africa or other places depending on when you were listening.
How would you like spending ten to fifteen months listening to stuff on the radio like, "Good morning folks, Heil Hitler! We are losing this war. The British and American air raids are breaking our morale.”
Your reaction to the radio reports would be “My family and me might be killed tomorrow.”
But then the commentator would say something like, “But there’s still hope. Our German ingenuity will overcome. We are in the final stages of developing what’s called a jet engine airplane that will easily destroy those English and American bombers and fighter planes, plus we are developing a bomb that could wipe out London in one minute.”
I guess the people were so war-weary that they would’ve believed anything, -even the idea that one bomb could destroy a whole city. But the funny thing about it was the Nazi broadcaster would have been telling the truth because the German scientists were working on an atom bomb and they just about had it completed before the war ended. Now that would have been something. Let's not think about that,
We can get used to just about anything, it seems, doesn't it? And if we can’t, then we resort to denial, which saves us from an unpleasant existence.
During my two years in Wuerzburg, from the Germans, I never saw or heard spoken the mention of Adolph Hitler, Joseph Goebbles, Heinrich Himmler, or Herman Goering. Except Hans, in his darkroom when I would be in there working with him and Maria wasn't there. He would use the darkroom to tell me deep down what his feeling were. He couldn't express them during the war and he couldn't express them after the war, so the darkroom was the only place to express them, and to an American, me.
As I lay there in my early morning wake-up trance, I dismissed the whole subject. I transitioned into how nice it was for these people to invite me into their home and to spend the night in their son's bedroom. What a beautiful day outside! I let my mind switch into the road ahead for me that day.
The aroma of frying eggs, sauerkraut and pork and potatoes came whafting up the stairwell. Herr Werner was just coming out of the bathroom. “Gruess Gott” he shouted. “Hast du gut geshlafen?” “Sehr gut,” I smiled as we shook hands.
“Where are you off to this morning?”, Frau Werner asked as she gave me another helping of sauerkraut. This was not a breakfast, this was a send-off supper.
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16 Feb, 2010 | Posted by: psn
2010 World Press Photo Winners Announced - The 53rd Annual World Press Photo of the Year has been awarded to Italian photographer Pietro Masturzo, for his image of women shouting from a Tehran rooftop on June 24, 2009, in protest of the contested Iranian presidential elections. http://www.pdnonline.com/pdn/content_display/photo-news/photojournalism/e3i1403cd968283bfb5cf90145486f93ee2
16 Feb, 2010 | Posted by: psn
The People Behind The Pics: Snowbound - How 'glorified ski bum' Jordan Manley turned his passion into a photography career. http://stateoftheart.popphoto.com/blog/2010/02/the-people-behind-the-pics-snowbound.html
16 Feb, 2010 | Posted by: psn
If the photographer is interested in the people in front of his lens, and if he is compassionate, it's already a lot. The instrument is not the camera but the photographer. - Eve Arnold
16 Feb, 2010 | Posted by: psn
1883 - The first film close-up was made, in the laboratory of Thomas Edison in East Orange, NJ. The photo is of Edison's assistant, Fred Ott, who was sneezing at the time, and is titled: "The Sneeze."
1931 – February 21st – the camera exposure meter was invented by William Nelson Goodwin, Jr. of the Weston Electrical Instrument Corporation, in Newark, NJ, who obtained patent No. 1,407,147 on a thermal ammeter.
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I'll call him Frank. He dropped his subscription to our daily marketletter. "There aren't enough aviation requests in your newsletter," he said.
"Let's talk about that," I said, "keeping in mind that the PhotoDaily is a marketletter, not a newsletter. The distinction is important, and has bearing on your concern about the number of aviation requests."
"How so?" he said, "What's the distinction?"
"A marketletter provides markets for you - not only the current day's specific photo requests from buyers, but new markets themselves, to add to your own Market List. The marketletter does all your research for you and not only finds new photobuyers, but also provides you with information on the kinds of photos they buy and the prices they pay. You can take this information, and whether or not you have the specific photo requested in that one listing, if over the long haul that buyer uses photos in one of your specialties, you have made a valuable contact to pursue on your own."
"But I just told you, your marketletter lists too few aviation buyers."
I asked him to think of "Marketing" as a long-term annuity. "Here's the big picture," I said. "We list photo needs every day, five days a week. In a year's time, we list about 3,000 photo needs. Let's say 1% of those are aviation needs."
"That's not many," he said. "That's only 30 needs! And only 10% of those will actually buy anything from you. That's only 3 buyers a year!"
"That's a lot," I said. "It's a gold mine!"
"What do you mean?"
"A publishing house that buys aviation pictures, is a buyer you, as an aviation photographer, can be hooked up with for a long time. You can establish a working relationship and work independently with them, making many more sales to them each year, beyond that first sale from the original listing in the marketletter. Individual photo editors at that company may come and go, but you'll continue to be an important resource for that publishing company. We've seen that most editorial stock photographers enjoy a working relationship with any one company for an average of ten years, and even longer.
If you 'net' $5000 annually from each buyer you acquire, over a ten-year period, you are talking $50,000 (10 X $5,000) from each buyer. If in one year, you acquire 3 steady buyers you are actually acquiring about $150,000 worth of business ($50,000 X 3). And that's from the number of buyer contacts made in just one year from the marketletter information."
"I never looked at it that way," he said.
"Think of the future net worth of the photobuyers you acquire. Each one has a specialized need. In this case, aviation. And you take aviation pictures. There couldn't be a better match."
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10 Feb, 2010 | Posted by: psn
-Company: Coastal Homes Magazine
Name: Kurt Rhineheimer
Title:Editor
e-Mail: Krhineheimer[at]leisurepublishing[dot]com
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Replaces: Candice Smilow
E-mail: csmilow[at]guideposts[dot]org
10 Feb, 2010 | Posted by: psn
Want To Invite Google to Index your Web Page?
The search engine, Google, adds and updates new sites to its index each time it “crawls” the Web. Google invites you to submit your Web page’s URL. They don’t add all submitted URLs to their index, and they cannot make any predictions or guarantees about when your website will be indexed. But it’s worth giving it a try.
To add your website: http://www.google.com/addurl/?continue=/addurl
10 Feb, 2010 | Posted by: psn
HOLD IT! -- Ad Agency Guide To Photography Usage Terms - All questionable negotiations have historically defaulted in favor of the artist. Technically, even minor modification of the art requires the artists’ permission. You are RENTING, not buying an image unless explicitly stated on the contract. http://www.aphotoeditor.com/2010/02/05/ad-agency-guide-to-photography-usage-terms/
GET LINKS -- Why People Aren't Linking To Your Photo Website - Ten SEO Tips To Get Websites To Link To You. http://blog.photoshelter.com/2010/02/ten-ways-to-get-others-to-link-to-you.html
FRANCHISE YOUR BUSINESS -- January edition of Entrepreneur magazine dedicated a large portion of the magazine to franchises. Did you know 8 of their top 500 franchises are in the photography industry? Does that tell you photography is still very profitable? People are willing to invest anywhere from $15,000 to more than $300,000 to get involved in one of these photography businesses. http://virtualphotographystudio.com/photographyblog/2010/02/03/how-much-for-a-photography-franchise/
THE FULL SERVICE PHOTOGRAPHER – 10 Ways to Increase Your Web Traffic –This blog post outlines several steps you can take to ramp up your online traffic. Whether you’re seeking new leads or to improve your current customer relationships, you’ll find something that will take you to the next level. SOURCE: Rebecca Ritz. Bauerhaus Design. http://cs.sbtv.com/Post/?id=2735
10 Feb, 2010 | Posted by: psn
10 Feb, 2010 | Posted by: psn
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Travelers Abroad
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> dates#1: March 11-21
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> destination#1: Bavaria, Germany
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> Comments: Lots of castles, churches, breweries... Anyone interested?
Name Jim Caldwell
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Destination Costa Rica near Panamanian Border
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IT’s 50-50. -- Kodak Sees Roughly Break-even 2010 On Flattish Revenues. It expects 2010 earnings from continuing operations to range from a loss of $50 million to a profit of $50 million as it continues to manage its declining film and photo-finishing business for cash while pursuing growth in consumer and commercial digital-imaging products. SOURCE: Wall Street Journal. http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20100204-714868.html?mod=WSJ_earnings_MIDDLETopHeadlines
10 Feb, 2010 | Posted by: psn
ONE BIG CATALOG – Microstock is the new Royalty Free - The distinction between microstock and royalty free (RF) is becoming irrelevant. Microstock and RF will be blended seamlessly from the buyer’s perspective and image buyers will be given more choice than ever before. What happens to pricing depends on your point of view. We’ll start to see pricing get tied to how often images are purchased. This form of pricing is fairly common in microstock today; all images start off at the same level and popular images go up in price. http://www.fastmediamagazine.com/?p=3891
NEW YEAR, NEW CHANGES -- New year and lots of changes in the microstock industry. http://www.microstockdiaries.com/this-month-in-microstock-january-2010.html
EXPECT A WIDE VARIETY -- Microstock Photography-From the Australian Buyer’s Perspective. Carl Chapman: “I decided to update some images on one of my commercial websites. As I browsed various microstock sites, I was struck by the variation of image quality and lack of creative content. I started by searching around some of the free microstock sites such as Stock.Xchng, Stock Vault, and Dreamstime Free Stock. www.carlchapman.com/stock-photography/microstock-photography-from-the-buyers-perspective/
CLOSING DOWN -- Royalty free stock photography site StockXpert to close. On February 2, 2010 StockXpert stopped selling credits, accepting new members and uploads and next week on February 11, searching and downloading will be suspended. StockXpert's subscription operations are being migrated over to Getty Images' new subscription site Thinkstock, and individual image purchase operations are moving to iStockphoto.
http://www.macworld.co.uk/procreative/news/index.cfm?newsid=28555
09 Feb, 2010 | Posted by: psn
GETTING CONFIDENT -- Gaining, and Keeping, Your Confidence - Tiffany Joyce is betting she’s not the only photographer out there who thought they were pretty good, until they saw a photograph taken by someone else that just blew them away, and they thought, “I’ll never be as good as that.” Here are some thoughts on gaining, and keeping, your confidence.
http://www.beyondmegapixels.com/2010/02/gaining-and-keeping-your-confidence/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+BeyondMegapixels+%28Beyond+Megapixels%29
09 Feb, 2010 | Posted by: psn
Make Your Computer Go Faster
Your computer is a complex machine made up of both electronic and mechanical parts. Many novices to computers think that once they've bought a computer that it should work consistently thereafter.
The reality is this: You could have the best hardware in the world and have a computer that runs so slowly as to be next to worthless.
The number one determining factor (hardware issues and failures aside) that will slow your computer down is: "YOU!!!" Have I shocked you ? Good!!
Let me put this into perspective. A case in point was a computer I was asked to look at recently. The user was really frustrated. He was thinking of chucking the laptop out a window because it was so slow. Granted, it was an old computer, but what really got my attention was what happened when the machine booted up (which took a long time).
He had 6 different anti-spyware programs all in competition with each other, about 5 different registry editors and numerous browser toolbars.
I was flabbergasted!!
I told him I was amazed his machine would even boot up at all. Cleaning it out was even worse. Some of the programs fought me (with threats of dire consequences to the integrity of his machine) as I tried to remove them. It was a real mess, but over time, it got better and the computer sped up considerably.
The whole point of this story is this: "If you have poor software habits, such as downloading tons of files on the Internet or every program your friends give to you, you're likely to overload your system and it won't be long before your computer will begin to slow down again."
To elaborate, let's use the analogy of a new car. If you buy it with all the bells and whistles, such as air conditioning, power everything, etc. and you don’t maintain it, it will begin to perform poorly. One such impact will be high gas consumption.
Conversely, if you buy a car that only has what you need, a leaner version of the same vehicle and you do regular maintenance, this will tend to reduce your gas consumption.
It's a similar thing with your computer. If you get the best hardware but you overload your system with unnecessary programs and clog up your hard drive, your system will begin to slow down.
It's that simple. The solution is to run a lean machine and only install what's necessary for your business or hobby.
A new machine or upgrades will give you a faster machine, but its long term performance will largely be determined by your computing habits.
I would need 10 minutes of your time and I'll show you how to speed up your computer, rid yourself of viruses and protect yourself online.
Nathan Segal, from Victoria, BC, Canada, is a writer/photographer who has also been active as a digital artist for well over a decade. For the past 9+ years, he has written numerous articles for computer and photographic magazines and has provided his own illustrations and photographs for the articles. His articles have covered : software reviews, tutorials, computer tips and tricks, profiles and investigative reporting. visualartist49[at]gmail[dot]com; 1 408 844-4851 (Cell).
09 Feb, 2010 | Posted by: psn
MORE SUBSCRIBERS: -- Magazines`Newsstand Recession May Be Lightening Up. The magazine newsstand recession isn’t over, but it seems to be lightening up. Most magazine circulation figures are still down, but not as much as they have been. This suggests, moreover, that the momentum may be shifting for the better. Newsstand declines had been getting worse -- progressing from a 6.3% slide in the first half of 2008, compared with the same period the year prior, to an 11.1% drop in the second half of 2008, and then to a 12.4% descent in the first half of 2009, according to the Audit Bureau of Circulations. SOURCE: Nat Ives. AdAGE Magazine.
http://adage.com/mediaworks/article?article_id=141873
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GREENCRAFT -- The Art Sook: A new magazine hits the stands SOON.
By Linda Manning Findley
This is the cover of Stampington's new magazine GreenCraft and yes the reason I got one first is because it has one of my projects in it ..... the article starts on page 15 & with explanation and photo on page 17 ... it has lots of cool ...SOURCE: Linda Manning Findley; The Art Sook - http://theartsook.blogspot.com/
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09 Feb, 2010 | Posted by: psn
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09 Feb, 2010 | Posted by: psn
REGISTRATION -- Should International Photographers Register Their Images with the U.S. Copyright Office? - A U.K. freelancer asks, if I as a U.K. resident put my pictures on the Web, do I need to register my images with the U.S. Copyright Office? The reason I ask is that we are no longer local, but now global. Carolyn E. Wright, an attorney who specializes in photography issues responds. SOURCE: BlackStar Rising http://rising.blackstar.com/should-international-photographers-register-their-images-with-the-u-s-copyright-office.html
09 Feb, 2010 | Posted by: psn
Two Decisions Confirm
Copyright Protection
For Product Photos
By Joel Hecker, Esq.
On November 5, 2009, the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit reversed an erroneous decision out of the United States District Court in Chicago, and on January 14, 2010, a United States District Judge in New York reached the same conclusion, that photographs of products taken on assignment can be protected by the photographer under copyright law.
Background Facts
The Seventh Circuit case, Daniel P. Schrock v. Learning Curve International, RC2 Brands, Inc, and HIT Entertainment, concerned the popular “Thomas & Friends” train characters. HIT licensed the right to make toy figures of its train characters to defendant Learning Curve (now owned by defendant RC2 Corporation). Learning Curve then retained Schrock to take photographs of its toys, including those based upon the Thomas & Friends properties.
Schrock granted limited rights to Learning Curve to use his resulting photos of Learning Curve’s products. This arrangement continued on a regular basis for about four years. Schrock’s invoices, eventually totaling more than $400,000, were paid in full.
Learning Curve stopped giving work to Schrock in 2003, but continued to use some of Schrock’s photos in its printed advertising, packaging and on the internet. In 2004, the photographer registered his photographs with the Copyright Office and obtained copyright registration certificates in his name. He then brought his lawsuit for copyright infringement.
On defendants’ motion for summary judgment, the primary issue was whether Schrock’s photos, as derivative works of the actual toys, were sufficiently original to obtain copyright protection, and whether defendants’ consent was required for Schrock to register the photos with the Copyright Office.
The district court, focusing on the derivative issue, granted summary judgment and threw out the case.
The Copyright Act
A derivative work is defined in the Copyright Act as a:
“…work based upon one or more preexisting works, such as a translation, musical arrangement, dramatization, fictionalization, motion picture version, sound recording, art reproduction, abridgement, condensation, or any other form in which a work may be recast, transformed or adapted. A work consisting of editorial revisions, annotations, elaborations, or other modifications, which as a whole represent an original work of authorship, is a ‘derivative work.’”
The appellate court assumed that Schrock’s photos came within the definition of derivative works since they “recast, transformed or adopted” the three dimensional toys into a different, two-dimensional medium. But that was only the beginning of the analysis.
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http://www.photosource.com/psn-article/decisions.html
09 Feb, 2010 | Posted by: psn
AND THEY’RE FREE. Ten Great Digital Photography Downloads. Want some help with editing and managing you stock collection? Pcworld has rounded up ten downloads that will let you take control of your photos. Whether you're looking for a top-of-the-line photo editor, a great photo manager, or nifty utilities to handle tasks such as finding duplicates, we have just the thing. And every program is free--not only to download but also to use. SOURCE: Preston Gralla, Pcworld – http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20100203/tc_pcworld/10greatdigitalphotographydownloads_1
09 Feb, 2010 | Posted by: psn
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09 Feb, 2010 | Posted by: psn
VERY FAST -- Make Your Own Rig for Ultra-High Speed Photography [Digital Photography]What do you do if you are a retired electronic and mechanical engineer with 41 years of experience, and a passion for ultra-high speed photography? Like Fotoopa, you make your own kick ass laser rig... http://gizmodo.com/5464119/make-your-own-rig-for-ultra+high-speed-photography
09 Feb, 2010 | Posted by: psn
KEEPING IN TOUCH – Social Media Guide for Photographers- The report provides valuable insights and strategies for photographers interested in using social media sites such as Twitter and Facebook to market their work and more effectively communicate with customers. The Social Media e-book can be found at http://www.photoshelter.com/mkt/research/social-media-for-photographers
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09 Feb, 2010 | Posted by: psn
"Thanks to PhotoSource, all of these needs were wonderfully filled and I think it's safe to say that I won't be needing anything further for those books. I'm very appreciative of the service you provide."
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09 Feb, 2010 | Posted by: psn
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NEAR KITZINGEN WEST GERMANY - 1957
Click on photo to enlargeROHN’S SKETCH OF SUMMERHAUSEN - 1957
Click on photo to enlargeCEMETARY IN OBERAMMERGAU - 1957
ROHN AT AGE 26 WUERZBURG - 1957
My Story
5
At 5:00 a.m. on the morning of May 20th 1957, the wake up shrill of a well-scratched reveille record pierced the PA system in the hallway of our barracks. I lifted the blind, looked out and saw fog everywhere. “Jeeze”, I said.
I don’t know if I was saying the “Jeeze” to the fog out there or just that I gotta do it. I gotta follow through and just get on that motor scooter today and head west.
But if I didn’t follow through, what would I tell all the people that tried to convince me not to go on this trip?
Sleeping wasn’t easy during last night. Several times my thoughts turned to just forgetting the whole thing. I could do that. Several times in the last week as my discharge date came up I thought about just dropping the whole idea.
I could sell my Vespa in downtown Wuerzburg and buy a plane ticket back to the states. I could spend a few more days with Maria, or a few more weeks or the whole summer, or a lifetime with her. She wasn’t there to see me off. I cut things off. I told her not to be there.
“No, no, don’t do this, forget the trip. Dump it. It’ll make you feel better” was what I heard in my head. And it wasn’t the people who surrounded me talking, it was I saying it.
But I looked at all my travel belongings. I had prepared the night before to strap on to my Vespa. And thought about all the official papers I had filled out and the goodbyes I had made. It would be easy to appear on Maria’s doorstep. But the sun was now coming up and by the time it was setting on May 20th 1957, I had to be somewhere, and it couldn’t be in the barracks of the 8212th AAI Unit.
Rick caught up with me on the way to the mess hall for breakfast. He grabbed my shoulder and squeezed. “This is it,” he said. “Freedom!” he shouted.
I tried to muster a smile. I guess I did for his sake. He was happy for me.
I was scared. What had I done? Why had I chosen to take this trip?
Was Lieutenant Kohler right? Was I running away from something?
I had told him, “No, I’m breaking away. I’m not running away.”
At breakfast, I had no appetite.
Sergeant Adams came by our table in the mess hall, stood over me and tossed a brown enveloped near my plate. “There it is, Engh, your discharge papers. Lieutenant Kohler says to shoot a tiger for him in Africa.”
“I mumbled as I looked at the envelope, “ They don’t have any tigers in Africa.”
“Well, don’t shoot yourself in the foot!” He said, walking away smiling, something I rarely saw from h im.
“He’s just jealous,” Rick said.
Back at the barracks, Rick helped me pack the motor scooter. I had shipped all of my non-trip belongings back to Maryland. All that remained were the essentials for my trip: my guitar, my pup tent, my Rollieflex, a map and the “civvies” I had chosen to wear on my journey.
What with the fog hanging over the gray cement-block buildings around the quadrangle and the sun starting to break through the heavy mist and the silver color of my sparkling new Vespa, it all gave a silvery tinge to my departure.
Rick grabbed me by the neck, shook me a little, and didn’t say anything as he shook his head. “Good luck!”
I whistled to Rick who was walking back to the quadrangle where everyone was assembling for roll call. He turned, gave a “thumbs up” gesture, turned and continued on. .
I was alone. I was on my own.
I started up the Vespa, swallowed, and headed west.
I left all the doubts about canceling the trip behind. I was on my way. The horizon awaited me. I didn’t feel good about all this. “So this was ‘freedom’?” I said to myself.
My first day on the road was a frightening one. An accident near the end of the day nearly ended the trip on the first day.
The road out of Wuerzburg winds around the sloping vineyards that border the city to the west and twists and turns through a series of hills and valleys toward the nearby river city of Frankfort/Main.
I hadn’t really had much experience driving the Vespa. On highways. I drove at cautious speeds, much to the irritation of fast moving Germans cars and Army trucks. It was a cold morning and heavy winds swept across the countryside. I had attached a windshield to the Vespa. The winds would sometimes catch me from the back and other times sweep in from the right, causing me to veer onto the opposite lane (in Germany, people drive in the right lane like in the USA).
Then suddenly the wind would shift and catch sideways in the windshield. The wind would treat it like a sail, and would send the scooter sweeping at sudden angles off the road or into the oncoming lane.
I had to concentrate every moment in preparation for the next gust of wind. The newness of driving a motor scooter was uncomfortable enough, but the sudden jolts from the wind made steering not so pleasant.
That first day, I made a distance of only 80 miles. It took me six hours. Other motorcyclists and motor scooters passed me. Some of them waved to me and were probably surprised at not seeing a grandmother driving the Vespa. It wasn’t just a couple of times the thought entered my head that when I got to Frankfurt, I could drive into the Vespa distributorship, sell my machine, and buy an airline ticket to Baltimore.
Sometimes I would stop in a village or alongside the roadway to watch the passing traffic and the people bustling on their way to work or doing their everyday chores. If I caught someone’s eye, I would nod my head and say, “Gruess Gott.’ Which was the normal way of saying hello to a stranger in this part of West Germany. My brand spanking new Vespa was a clue to them that I must be just starting out. Some would actually stop and ask where I was off to and if I was an American and all that. Then they would head off on their daily routine or whatever they had to do that day.
Well, I didn’t have anything to do that day except move westward or just stay set or whatever I wanted to do. It’s then that I think an overwhelming feeling of independence overcame me. I wasn’t beholden to anybody. Not Colonel Henderson, not Lieutenant Kohler, not to my parents, not to anybody. I can’t remember ever feeling this way.
I was to feel that way a lot on the road ahead. The sun was my clock and the leaves would be my calendar. But independen ce has its price I was to learn too.
I had $192.50 in my pocket in USA cash. I didn’t exchange it for the local currency. The Germans liked U.S. dollars even more than their own deutschmarks. I suspected everyone in Europe would be glad to accept the dollar.
Late in the afternoon, I learned my first lesson for the beginner on a motor scooter. Pay attention to the road. As I was nearing the village of Dettingen, I came up on a steep grade that ended in a beautiful view, actually a panoramic view, of a wide valley with little farms and quilted vegetable patches, I locked into the immensity of the scene and didn’t notice that the road made a sharp winding curve around the mountain.
I felt the scooter wheels hit the gravel that bordered the road. It was too late to avoid an accident. I guided the scooter so that it slid sideways into a guardrail that protected the road from a cliff.
Want to read more?
http://www.photosource.com/psn-article/mystory5.html
09 Feb, 2010 | Posted by: psn
LEADING A PHOTO TOUR? -- Things You Need to Know About Photo Tours - For those photographers who plan on leading their own photo tours, (And for those planning to participate in a tour.)
http://darwinwiggett.wordpress.com/2010/02/05/warning-things-you-need-to-know-about-photo-tours/
09 Feb, 2010 | Posted by: psn
Success is what happens when 10,000 hours of preparation meet with one moment of opportunity. - Anonymous
09 Feb, 2010 | Posted by: psn
1906 – February 8 – Chester F. Carlson, the inventor of the photo copier, was born in Seattle, Washington.
03 Feb, 2010 | Posted by: psn
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Get Ready for
Tax Time
Coming up in April is tax time. It's time to talk about how you can save by being aware of what tax-savings are available to you.
Arithmetic in grammar school and algebra in high school never appealed to me. But when I discovered later on in life that I could save hundreds of dollars every year, I soon became fascinated by mathematics.No one likes to talk about taxes. But before you close the doors and slam the windows on the subject, let me make two points: 1) You are missing an opportunity to save anywhere from $10 to $1,000 a year (or more) on your taxes, if you are a salaried person and attempting to get your part-time business of your stock photography operation off the ground; and 2) what I'm going to say has nothing to do with evading taxes -- that's illegal. You will avoid taxes -- that's your legal right.
The IRS encourages you to avoid taxes. Sound odd? It's correct.
The reason the IRS doesn't want you to pay so much in taxes is that our free enterprise system recognizes that it takes courage to start up a business - thus, they want to encourage you. They know that if you succeed, you could very well help stimulate the economy by hiring more workers, who in turn will pay more taxes.
You probably thought "write-offs" were only for the big boys, and that it costs big dollars to ask questions about tax advantages. Not so. The IRS provides you with all the information I'm about to reveal to you in their free and informative, "Taxpayer's Business Kit.” So, you verify this with the IRS. (Phone them at 1 800 829 1040) But if you're like most of us, you'll take one look at that two pounds of information and put it away in a drawer for "later."
A costly mistake. Here's what you'll discover when you sift out the information as it applies to you, the stock photographer. The government will give you five years to stop calling your operation a hobby and start calling it a business. Within those five years, you should show a profit ($1 is a profit) in at least two of those years. That means you could go three years without even selling a picture or showing a profit and still reap the tax benefits (more later). (If your stock photography business is your only business, your primacy livelihood, you can actually show a loss every year.)
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You don't have to "get a license" (unless your local city or township requires it). You only have to show intent to be a business, rather than a hobby.
Intent translates into "putting up a shingle." In other words, get some stationery printed (google is a good source for best prices), and open a separate bank (business) account. At income tax time, fill out Schedule C, a form that lets the IRS know whether you made a profit or a loss on your stock photography operation.
Now here's where your savings come in. Much of your business-related expenses (computer expense, travel, home office, vehicle, darkroom) are no longer your personal expenses, they are business expenses, and therefore become "deductions" in other words, expenses to your business. Even though you don't make a profit, you are still entitled to this write-off.
Want to read more?
http://www.photosource.com/psn-article/taxtime.html
03 Feb, 2010 | Posted by: psn
- Company: MAXIM Magazine
Name: Leslie L.Simmons
Title: Photo Researcher/Art Buyer
- Phone:212-372 3896
- E-mail: L.Simmons[at]alphamediagroup[dot]com
Replaces: Melissa Martineze
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Name: Athena Lakii
- Title: Senior Editor
- New Phone: 1 617 523 6628
- Old Phone: 1 617 523 0636 x328
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Title: Photo Researcher
New e-mail: Naomi.kornhauser[at]myfairpoint[dot]com
03 Feb, 2010 | Posted by: psn
YUM! – Ten 10 Tips for Taking Great Food Photos. Go to a big food website and the food glistens, the light is perfect and everything is in its place. But you`re traveling and you have a pocket or DSLR camera and you have a great spread before you. Conditions are tricky and time is limited. What do you do? SOURCE: Daniel Noll
www.uncorneredmarket.com/2010/01/10-tips-for-taking-great-food-photos/
03 Feb, 2010 | Posted by: psn
Pugs, Pugs, Pugs . . . .
Did you know our editorial director here at PhotoSource International, Lela Labree Stute has just published a Childrens Book (PUGS GO ON VACATION! - ISBN# 978 1 4489 2738 8) about her three (Yes, 3… ) pugs? You can see Lela and her book at
www.lelabree.com .
http://www.amazon.com/Pugs-Vacation-Lela-Labree-Stute/dp/1448927382/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1265298794&sr=8-1
Good news… she has five more books in the making
03 Feb, 2010 | Posted by: psn
Need to find markets for your areas of photography?
Most entry-level stock photographers make the mistake (like most beginners in any creative field) of creating first…and then trying to find a market for their product. It’s a recipe for disaster.
If you reverse it (find the market--then create), you’ll be successful. (I.e. find the markets that focus on the subject areas that you like to photograph.)
Thanks to the Internet, you can easily find what markets are out there waiting for your special interest pictures.
Go to a search engine such as Google and type in the name of your category of pictures (let’s use “childhood education” as an example), a space, the magazine, a space and then “guidelines” (three phrases).
The results are interesting: 733,000 for childhood education-oriented. (At least one of the words in this exercise is found in Google. (that's why there are 733,ooo hits).
Starting at page 1 of the Google search, begin to find publications that match your criteria.
Granted, search engines are not perfect, but if only one-tenth of those periodicals and publishing houses turn out to be markets for your area of specialization, you need look no further for buyers for your stock photography. This system works for any category of specialization you might have. -RE
03 Feb, 2010 | Posted by: psn
To learn more about Rohn Engh's eCOURSE
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03 Feb, 2010 | Posted by: psn
NEW TRAVEL SERVICE -- The Wall Street Journal expands brand with WSJTravel launch - While The Wall Street Journal struggles with advertising, it continues to diversify its offerings by delving into another realm - travel services. WSJTravel is a website that will offer 50 travel packages to destinations including Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, and South America. http://www.editorsweblog.org/newspaper/2010/01/the_wall_street_journal_expands_brand_wi.php
PLEASE, JUST THE GOOD ONES – Highs and Lows of Travel Photography.
When you return from an awesome trip, you want to show off your photos to friends and family. Unfortunately, dull photos don’t help your image.
http://travelblog.gapadventures.com/2010/01/26/highs-and-lows-of-travel-photography/
03 Feb, 2010 | Posted by: psn
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03 Feb, 2010 | Posted by: psn
DROPPING RIGHTS-MANAGED -- Microstock in the limelight at Corbis' Veer - Corbis is betting on microstock and royalty-free images as it plans to adapt its Veer offering by dropping rights-managed images from the online stock library. http://www.bjp-online.com/public/showPage.html?page=873065
03 Feb, 2010 | Posted by: psn
MOVING FORWARD – Another model to deal with? Could Google Gag the Microstock Business? Conversations surround talk of Apple`s new "tablet" and how it might save newspapers and magazines. While a disruptive new technology is an opportunity for those who take advantage of it, it might spell disaster for those who don’t. Google proposes a number of images matching the ad content. SOURCE: Jay King. http://jaykinghorn.com/?p=304
03 Feb, 2010 | Posted by: psn
MOVE ON -- Is it that gloomy out there? A 54-year-old photographer has maintained his business, in part, by shooting rodeos - a genre filled with fervent fans and specialty publications willing to pay for quality work. Survival will increasingly depend on such niche-mining, since the stopper won't ever be put back in the stock photography bottle.
SOURCE: JAMES RAINEY / Los Angeles Times http://www.adn.com/24hour/opinions/story/1105488.html
TAKEAWAY: Yes, the gloom is out there if you continue to use the old model to survive in stock photography. But switch to a specialized field, one that you love being in, and stick with that niche. The buyers will come to you, and they’ll not be from down the street, but from addresses world-wide. –RE
DESTROYING SELF-DOUBT -- Don’t Let Self-Doubt Hold Back Your Photography Business - If you are a new professional photographer or new to a different photographic genre, you most likely have some doubts about your ability. It’s not only a common feeling, but quite worthwhile in personal development. SOURCE: BlackStarRising.
http://rising.blackstar.com/dont-let-self-doubt-hold-back-your-photography-business.html
03 Feb, 2010 | Posted by: psn
GETTING READY – What Is The Future Of Magazines On Apple’s iPad? Before Apple unveiled its big tablet, everyone in the magazine industry seemed to be talking about "the tablet" and all it held in store for declining newsstand sales and waning advertiser interest. But, people were surprised that Steve Jobs mentioned no magazines in his presentation. SOURCE: Amanda Ernst
www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlny/magazines/what_is_the_future_of_magazines_on_the_ipad_150352.asp
THE FIRST STEP -- Q&A: A New Magazine Model, Issue 1 - Jacqueline Bovaird spoke with Laura Brunow Minor, founder of Pictory Magazine. Laura has thrown out the template and started from scratch here, and the result is brilliantly simple. Big images with a simple interface and limited, meaningful text. Pictory releases a theme, to which anyone is encouraged to submit one appropriate photograph and caption. SOURCE: Jacqueline Bovaird -- http://stone-thrower.com/2010/01/27/qa-a-pictory/
03 Feb, 2010 | Posted by: psn
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03 Feb, 2010 | Posted by: psn
HIDING INFRINGEMENT -- When the Internet Service Provider Is Immune From Copyright Infringement Liability - The Digital Millennium Copyright Act provides immunity to Internet service providers (”ISP”) that store infringing information on their servers. This protection, however, is strictly based on the service provider meeting specific requirements established by the statute: SOURCE: Carolyn E. Wright, (the Photo Attorney®) http://www.photoattorney.com/?p=1051
03 Feb, 2010 | Posted by: psn
Here at PSI we are doing our part to help out
photographers in this gloomy economy.
Last month it was an enticing PHOTOLETTER offer.
This month, it’s the PHOTODAILY.
If you qualify for the PhotoDaily
(…our committee needs to see your website)
We invite you to check out this video.
http://www.photosource.com/photodaily.html
03 Feb, 2010 | Posted by: psn
ANYONE SEEN WARHOL’S PICS? In 1963 Andy Warhol gave Billy Name a 35-millimeter Honeywell Pentax camera, and he became the resident photographer and documentarian of The Factory days... at least for 7 years. He stopped in 1970 partly because of the businesslike attitude Warhol was adopting. But the NY Times reports that Name is now missing his archive of negatives! The photographer, who lives in Poughkeepsie, told them they're "in ghost land, man."
http://gothamist.com/2010/01/09/billy_name.php
TAKEAWAY: More than fifteen minutes of fame lost.
CAMERA ANTIQUITY -- First mass-produced camera heads to auction - An extremely rare model of the world’s first commercially produced camera will be auctioned later this year. The Giroux Daguerreotype camera was designed by Louis-Jacques-Mande Daguerre and produced in 1839. It will be auctioned on 29 May in Vienna for a starting price of €200,000 (£173,027). http://www.imaginginsider.com/?p=104643&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+imaginginsideronline+%28Imaging+Insider%29
03 Feb, 2010 | Posted by: psn
TAX PLANNING
Back in 1947, tax planning was something that concerned only the wealthy. That year, taxpayers received often-quoted words of encouragement from Judge Hand: "Over and over again courts have said that there is nothing sinister in so arranging one's affairs as to keep taxes as low as possible. Everybody does so, rich and poor; and all do right, for nobody owes any public duty to pay more than the law demands; taxes are enforced exactions, not voluntary contributions. To demand more in the name of morals is mere cant."
Nowadays, financial planning throughout the year, with an eye particularly on taxes, is not just for the wealthy. Advance planning is also rewarding for most middle income individuals.
TIP. Spend a few hours plotting how to choose and implement your year-end strategies, and you may be pleasantly surprised to discover how many IRS-blessed opportunities there are to save on your taxes for this year and even gain a head start on next year. For example, it may be advantageous to buy computer supplies, printer ink or darkroom supplies in advance to reduce your net profit for this year. The main thing is to act before December 31 while there is still time to take advantage of tax angles that can generate a dramatic savings if you understand how to get the full benefit of what the law allows. Once beyond December 31, it is too late to do anything but fill out your tax forms, except for a possible contribution to a traditional IRA or a Keogh.
Julian Block, a former IRS agent and tax attorney, is the author of "Julian Block's Tax Avoidance Secrets" ($29.95 p&h included, 560 pgs. Mention you are a PhotoStockNotes subscriber and receive the book for $19.95. Julian Block, 3 Washington Sq, Larchmont NY 10538-2032). Julian can be reached at julianblock[at]yahoo[dot]com.
03 Feb, 2010 | Posted by: psn
GET KNOWN -- Secret Social Media Marketing Recipe from Photographer John Lander - Five Ways to Use Social Media Sites to Boost Your SEO. http://blog.photoshelter.com/2010/01/photographer-john-landers-secret-social-media-mark.html
03 Feb, 2010 | Posted by: psn
YOU PAYS FOR WHAT YA GITS: Pricing Issues: One Big Monster of a Problem - This issue on price, undercutting, ‘ruining’ the business all gets so dicey and tricky in the crazy light of the real world, I thought I would throw out some of my opinions. Here are a few subjects that keep coming up on forums and blogs all over the net. http://www.lighting-essentials.com/pricing-issues-one-big-monster-of-a-problem/
03 Feb, 2010 | Posted by: psn
"I read and review your notes constantly. I've paid attention to you for a long time, you offer sound advice."
- Kent Wood, Photographer, Albuquerque, NM
03 Feb, 2010 | Posted by: psn
NOTE: It’s up to you if you want to enter any of the contests we list on this page. It’s well known that some photo contest sponsors ask for free commercial use of the winning entries (or sometimes all of the entries!). You don’t have to guess who the winner of that contest is. Don’t give up any of your rights. If your photo is good enough to win a national contest, it’s good enough to earn many dollars for you in the future. So, enter photo contests keeping this in mind.
* dPS Forum Photography Competition looks like it’s going to have an ongoing series of contests with good prizes from digitalrev.com. What they want is for you to produce a photograph that says “Life.” The competition will run for four weeks beginning January 28 and first prize is up to $1600.00 USD to spend at DigitalRev, second is up to $800.00 and third is up to $500.00.
Read more:
http://digital-photography-school.com/dps-forum-photography-competition#ixzz0e9Zqggrb
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* 23rd Annual Northern National Art Competition at Nicolet Area Technical College is wide open for artists 18 and older residing in America and using a variety of media. Each artist may submit one or two slides or jpgs of recent, original 2D (wall-hang-able) work in ANY medium including drawing, painting, printmaking, photography, fiber, mixed media and work that has some sculptural elements. There is over $8500 in prize money including three $1000 Awards of Excellence. Entries must be postmarked by May 15. This year’s judge/juror is photographer Larry McNeil, who teaches all levels of photography, including digital imaging, at Boise State College in Idaho. Larry’s own work can be seen at http://www.larrymcneil.com/and is worth looking at even if you are not likely to enter the contest.
For more information on the contest see:
http://www.nicoletcollege.edu/community/eventsentertainment/artgallery/nnac.html
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* The editors of Nature's Best Photography magazine invite all photographers to enter the 14th Annual Windland Smith Rice International Awards competition for 2010. All winning images will be published in the 2010 Collectors Edition of Nature's Best Photography magazine. In addition, the category Winners and a selection of Highly Honored photographs will be displayed in an exhibition at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History in Washington, DC. The Grand Prize will also win a "Yellowstone in Winter" photo workshop provided by Arizona Highways Photo Workshops. Entries are judged on technical quality, originality, and artistic merit. Enter up to 20 images for an entry fee of $25 US dollars (no foreign checks).
Deadline: April 5, 2010.
For more details: http://www.naturesbestphotography.com/enter_guidelines.php
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* Win a prestigious award, up to £20,000 worth of prizes and exposure in a nationwide (United Kingdom) touring exhibition and accompanying book. After a successful first year and widely acclaimed photographic exhibition celebrating British wildlife, The British Wildlife Photography Awards announce the launch of their second competition, now open for entries. Established to celebrate and recognize the talents of photographers of all nationalities practicing in the UK, while at the same time highlight the great wealth and diversity of British natural history, BWPA are looking to build on recent successes and are introducing several new categories, including a special award for conservation photography and a category dedicated to British biodiversity and native species under threat, reflecting the fact that 2010 has been declared International Year of Biodiversity, by the United Nations.
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Main Awards and Prizes will total up to £20,000, including British Wildlife Photographer £5,000, Young British Wildlife Photographer (under 18) £500 & a Schools, Youth and Community Group Award £1,000. The winner of each category will receive prizes with a total value of around £1,000.
Categories
1. Animal Portraits
2. Animal Behavior
3. Urban Wildlife
4. Hidden Britain
5 Coast and Marine
6. Wildlife in my Back Yard
7. Habitat
8 British Seasons
9. International Year of Biodoversity
10. The 2020VISION Special Award
For more information:
http://www.bwpawards.org/
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* The first Scott Dunn photography competition. Send your best shot from your holiday - either a ‘FACE’ or a ‘PLACE’ and you could be taking photos with a new Leica D-Lux 4 digital camera on a weekend getaway to Florence, staying at the chic JK Place and enjoying a one day photography workshop in the UK with Brett (www.bybrett.com). Shortlisted entries will be uploaded to www.scottdunn.com on a monthly basis for the winner to then be chosen by four judges. The competition closes on 30 June 2010.
For more information:
http://www.scottdunn.com/picture-perfect.html
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* The Outdoor Photographer The Great Outdoors Photo Contest (“Contest”) is open to legal residents of the 50 United States and District of Columbia, who are 18 years of age or older. Grand Prize Package: Publication of your photo in the August 2010 issue and $1,500 cash! People’s Choice Award: Online publication of the winning photo in the Winners Gallery.
For more information:
http://www.outdoorphotographer.com/photo-contests/the-great-outdoors.html
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* The Photocrati Fund offers $5000 grants to non-professional photographers to undertake important humanitarian and environmental photography projects. Their goal is to identify outstanding, up-and-coming photographers and give them the resources necessary to pursue projects that will have a tangible and positive effect on the world.
They will offer one grant in 2010. The application deadline is March 15, 2010, and the award will be announced in June 2010. Awardees become Photocrati Fellows for the calendar year from the announcement of their award until the announcement of the following year’s award.
For more information:
http://www.photocrati.com/photocrati-fund/
-Jim McCue
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03 Feb, 2010 | Posted by: psn
Click on photo to enlargeWest Germany Woman at stove 1957 -Rohn Engh
Click on photo to enlargeMAN ASLEEP - HOFBRAU HOUSE -- Rohn Engh
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Couple at Gasthaus 1957 --Rohn Engh
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My Story
Saying Goodbye to Army Life
I was thinking the other day what a good stage the army-life was for me over there in West Germany.
Yes, a good stage, like in the theater. I mean in the sense of Shakespeare’s famous theme about the ‘world’s only a stage’, and his other famous subject, ‘the difference between seeming and being.’
Back in my high school days, the students came from mostly families that were chicken farmers there on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. During the summer vacation time, over at the beach in Ocean City, about five miles inland where we lived, I spent most of my summer time at the ocean, at the beach and on the boardwalk with people from big cities like Baltimore and Washington, and even New York. I worked at summer beach jobs, so I got a lot of chance to talk with all kinds of people, of all ages, girls, boys.
Sometimes a high school friend of mine would come walking down the boardwalk and he would wave to me on the beach and I would pretend not to see him. I would be with one of those Philadelphia girls from some suburban family and I didn’t want her to see the kind of friends I had. I know now that was wrong, making those prejudgments. One of them went on to be a prominent doctor in a Washington hospital.
And you know something? I found that Shakespeare was right, at least for me. There are two levels of seeming and being in people. Whether it was the big city people I got to know in the summertime or the locals during the rest of the year. It became clear that if I wanted to get on in life, wherever I ended up, I’d have to deal with this ‘seeming and being’ thing.
That’s why I welcomed the idea of joining the Army when I was drafted during the Korean War. It would give me a different ‘stage’ to learn from. And later on, when I decided to take my Army discharge over in Europe, I guess it was one of the prime reasons I wasn’t ready to return home to the USA. I say “guess” because I didn’t say to myself something like, “I’m curious, as long as I’m here in Europe, I’m going to go out and learn about other people.” But that’s the way it turned out. And by the way, at first, I was only intending to travel to Europe. Other circumstances that I’ll tell you about later caused me to go farther into Africa.
But back to my farewell to the U.S. Army.
Whenever I see a recruiting poster for the U.S. Army, I think of the army as a massive contraption that sucks in young men and spits out two flavors: robots and mavericks. My impression is probably all wrong because I served in a peacetime Army in Germany.
You’re probably thinking “You didn’t serve in the Army you served in a peace-keeping corporation You didn’t serve in a crackerjack combat unit like the guy s over there in Korea are doing.”
You’d be right. And, worse you could say I let a lot of Nazis into the USA. And a lot of others things I was doing in my CIC job was listening in on a lot of German citizen’s phone calls and reading their mail.
We also had these new secret agent gimmicks like pounding a spy nail into a hotel wall and listening in on the conversation in the next room or photographing them with a long telephoto camera from across the street. We had won the war and were occupying West Germany, so we could act like victors. It’s not like we made them slaves or anything like that. Like in Roman times.
I was getting unhappy with the Army. In my army career I was playing their game and turning into a robot and didn’t like what I was doing. It was only Rick who encouraged my idea of traveling Europe with my guitar and singing for my supper. He even entertained the idea of coming along with me. That idea lasted about two minutes.
But I could understand. And I could understand my parent’s response when I wrote to them. “Think of your career. You’ve invested 4 years of art education!” They also knew that I had a job waiting for me at BBD&O in Baltimore with a big salary.
No one, at 8212th AAI Unit Wuerzburg except Rick thought it a wise move for me.
“You’re wasting your life,” one advised.
“You’ll be killed on the highways,” someone said.
A sergeant warned me, “Life on the outside is mean. You’ve had a free bed and a warm meal whenever you wanted it. You’ll soon learn what’s best.” The word was getting around.
Colonel Rice, my commanding officer, ordered more to report to his office on Monday morning. He was a man of middle age and had already seen twenty-some army years. Gosh, he was loud. There was nothing tender about his cadence-calling voice that shot in spurts from his wiry frame.
He looked at me with green piercing eyes from his seated position, as I stood rigid before him in the center of his carpeted office. “At ease Engh”, he barked, shuffling through some papers.
“Well, Engh, what’s the meaning of this request I have here? What’s this, you want an overseas discharge? What do you plan to do over here, -get a job? he roared. He enjoyed shouting this conversation so that office people in the adjacent office could hear. . He stared at me and then sat back in his big ol’ executive chair and folded his arms to wait for my answer with an expression that said, “You’re wasting my time. Hurry up.”
I wasn’t excepting all this. I just thought all I had to do was sign some kind of paper and that was it.
I wished for a slight moment that I had never requested an overseas discharge.
I gathered up some courage and answered, “Sir, I plan to travel the world.”
There was a long pause, of course. In the next door office there was silence over there. I thought I heard some tittering laughter. “Well, Engh, that’s very nice,” he continued, “I’m sure we’d all like to travel the world. You must be a very rich person.”
“No, sir. I’m not.
“Well, “ he shot back, “How much money do you have for this world trip?”
“Sir, I have six hundred and forty eight dollars.” I answered as officially as I could. Of course I couldn’t tell I sill had to buy the Vespa, sleeping bag, and pup tent, and $400 of that had to go to the motor scooter agency.
The sum impressed him and he questioned, “And how long do you think you could get on with that amount of money?”
“I have no idea, sir.”
I saw by his quick change of expression this wasn’t a very proper answer.
“You realize Engh, that the U.S. Army cannot afford to discharge people overseas who will become a burden to the government .He was getting close to the reason for calling me into the office. “Unless I can be assured that you will be financially responsible in your traveling, I can see no way that I can sign your release for an overseas discharge,” He paused for awhile and then asked, “What initial provisions are you going to need for this trip?”
I had hoped he was not going to ask that question. “I figured I’d need a sleeping bag, a pup tent, a guitar, a knapsack, and a motor scooter.”
He looked at me, holding back a smile, or even bellowing laughter. He reached for a notepad and them slid it away. He rested his chin on his clasped hands with his arms planted in a solid triangle on his desk this had turned into something humorous for him. On the other hand he probably entertained the idea that he might be dealing with a “nut” case.
“You’re not traveling by train and staying in hotels?” He brought the notepad back over and started making notes.
“No” I said.
“Well then what does a sleeping bag cost,” He began.
“Fifteen dollars, sir.”
“And a guitar?” he questioned without looking up from his desk.
There was silence in the next office.
“And knapsack??” He was taping his pencil against the notepad.
“Five dollars and fifty cents, sir.”
“And a motor scooter?” he said. He was smug now.
“Four hundred dollars, sir,” I said so low I could hear it in my head but I wasn’t sure he heard it.
He didn’t.
“What? He bellowed out, looking up from his scribbling.
I repeated it.
His eyes shot back at me like one of his automatic weapons. Then he returned to total up the figures I gave him.
“That comes to four hundred and fifty five dollars and fifty cents, Engh! You mean to tell me you’re leaving here with, “ and he swiftly subtracted, “one hundred and ninety-two dollars and fifty cents?”
My throat was dry. I couldn’t answer him.
He sat back in his chair and stared at me. “I think you had better look at this a little more seriously, Engh. I’ve taken more that than that on a weekend visit to Italy.”
He shot back again, “You think this trip over from a practical viewpoint. If you ask me, forget about the whole thing. Let’s consider you receiving your discharge in Baltimore. Then you can take whatever trip you want to take.”
I saluted.
I turned to leave his office and he added, “I heard reports that your friend Tolman might be traveling with you. If this is correct, tell him he can expect to take his discharge in Philadelphia.”
“He’s decided not to go on the trip, sir.” I said.
Colonel Rice answered only with an unfriendly grin and I left.
Those were dark days back in February 1957. I had only a month to convince the colonel that I could support myself. More problems began coming up.
I contacted the British and French consulate in Frankfort and learned it was impossible to apply for a visa for the African colonies unless I had a passport. That was a problem. U.S. Army regulations said military personnel could not be issued a passport until after their discharge. Since it took three or four months for an African visa to come through, it meant a long delay in Europe before I could head off on my trip.
Want to read more?
http://www.photosource.com/psn-article/mystory3.html
03 Feb, 2010 | Posted by: psn
NEW PATHWAYS -- The American Society of Picture Professionals (ASPP) and the Picture Archive Council of America (PACA) will produce the “Reinvention Weekend” April 15th – 18th in Boston. The entire conference is geared to Reinvent, Re-imagine and Reinvigorate your career or your approach to the photography industry. http://www.creativepro.com/article/photographers-reinvent-yourself
03 Feb, 2010 | Posted by: psn
“Hobby became passion, passion became profession (Shokh hoechhe nesha, nesha hoeche pesha),"
Chanchal Mahmood, photographer.
03 Feb, 2010 | Posted by: psn
In February 1860, the photographer Mathew Brady (took the first of several portraits of Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln went to New York City to give an anti-slavery speech at the Cooper Union. He thought a portrait might help his presidential campaign.
Brady was one of the first Americans to get into photography, and within a few years he was known as one of the best portrait photographers in the country. Brady was the first person to take a photograph of an American president when he photographed President Zachary Taylor in 1849.
The portrait was difficult to take, in part because Lincoln was so tall (6’4”). Brady usually used a head clamp to immobilize his subjects, but the clamp didn’t reach Lincoln’s head. So Lincoln had to stand absolutely still for several minutes of his own free will. The photograph worked out, though, and it was published on the cover of Harper’s Weekly, the equivalent of today’s New Yorker magazine. Lincoln later claimed the photograph and the Cooper’s Union speech had made him president.
03 Feb, 2010 | Posted by: psn
Dennis Stock, Photographer of Intimate Portraits, Dies at 81
Dennis Stock, a photographer whose intimate and evocative portraits captured the essence of jazz performance and helped shape James Dean’s moody public persona, died Monday in Sarasota, Fla. He was 81
Dennis Stock: “The goal for the photographer is to be visually articulate. If the subject is in a suffering circumstance, it is all the more preferable to apply craft to the utmost. Call it art or not, we photographers should always try to pass on our observations with the utmost clarity.” SOURCE: DAVID W. DUNLAP NYTIMES. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/15/arts/design/15stock.html?emc=eta1
James Dean in Times Square - Dennis Stock
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