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Subject: [Leica] There are honest people out there :-)
From: photo at frozenlight.eu (Nathan Wajsman)
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2009 19:33:24 +0200
References: <F0E9267F-B1AC-490E-88FB-399FA255F3D3@frozenlight.eu> <AA1CE765-2F8A-4F6F-95F8-54CCD5DB17F9@mac.com>

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

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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
>>
>>
>>
>>
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In reply to: Message from photo at frozenlight.eu (Nathan Wajsman) ([Leica] There are honest people out there :-))
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