Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/08/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thanks George. I actually forgot to ask them how they came across the image, but I can only assume that they did a search. If you enter "Martinus Nijhoff picture" in Google's image search, this picture is on the first page (as is another one of mine), out of 15700 results. I guess there is some value to accurate captioning :-) Cheers, Nathan Nathan Wajsman Alicante, Spain http://www.frozenlight.eu http://www.greatpix.eu http://www.nathanfoto.com Books: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/search?search=wajsman&x=0&y=0 PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws Blog: http://www.fotocycle.dk/blog On Aug 16, 2009, at 5:55 PM, George Lottermoser wrote: > Gorgeous image > and a perfect venue > for it. > > Did you discover how they found the image > and knew it was their poet? > > Regards, > George Lottermoser > george at imagist.com > http://www.imagist.com > http://www.imagist.com/blog > http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist > > On Aug 16, 2009, at 12:09 AM, Nathan Wajsman wrote: > >> Back in 2005, I posted this image among my PAWs: >> http://www.nathanfoto.com/paw/2005/2005_47alt2.jpg >> >> The bridge is called Martinus Nijhoff bridge, and until a couple of >> days ago I had no idea who this chap was. But now I know that he >> was a Dutch poet. How do I know? Well, I received an e-mail from a >> poetry publishing house in the UK: >> http://www.anvilpresspoetry.com/ >> >> They told me they were going to publish a book of his poems, >> translated into English, and wanted to know if they could use the >> image for the cover, even enclosing a PDF showing what it would >> look like. I replied that yes, they could use it but I was not >> giving away my work for free. On the other hand, realizing that a >> book of poetry by a Dutch poet is not exactly going to make JK >> Rowling worry about being bumped off the bestseller list, I decided >> to propose a symbolic fee of ?50 (license for this particular use >> only) and a couple of copies of the book. They happily accepted, >> and the price does not seem out of line when I look at Alamy for >> this type of usage. >> >> Nice people, and I even have a UK bank account to make it easy for >> them to pay me :-) >> >> Nathan >> >> Nathan Wajsman >> Alicante, Spain >> http://www.frozenlight.eu >> http://www.greatpix.eu >> http://www.nathanfoto.com >> >> Books: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/search?search=wajsman&x=0&y=0 >> PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws >> Blog: http://www.fotocycle.dk/blog >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information