[Leica] Getty Images

[Ted Grant]

Jayanand Govindaraj OFFERED:
Subject: Re: [Leica] Getty Images

>>>> Ted,
I am sorry, but that seems to be the marketplace today, however illogical
or awful it may sound to you. To my mind, it was inevitable, with the great
democratization of photographic matter that digital has wrought. By the
way, I have no idea of how stock sales work in detail, so I am just picking
up clues from the messages, and applying them to what has happened in
professional photography, and management culture, in general. Similar
income compression has been happening in a variety of professions, as the
hunt for the lowest cost has taken over as a prime management paradigm.
Eventually, in all these areas, the end customer benefits greatly through
lower prices. Other than weddings, medical, fashion and industrial
photography (there may be other niches, too, that I do not know about), I
cannot see any other niches where a photographer can make a decent living
today....<<<<<<

Hi Jayanand,
Rightly so! Quite often over the passing years/centuries technologies have
changed man kinds lives for the "GOOD,  BAD & UGLY!" Some things wonderful,
health, medical, aviation an endless number that have been advancements
enjoyed by nearly every human on Earth who've  embraced them. Unfortunately
as great as many have been they have also been detrimental to some of the
masses.  Subjects quite possibly working on both.

Yes "STOCK PHOTOGRAPHY" was one of the great elements of income for many.
Individuals and big corporations. But it obviously appears to be coming to
a crashing end? No I don't think it will go away completely, however it will
go away as we know it today!

However it will survive in some fashion as it is an asset to  the
advertising world and many other facets of civilization.

ME? I must say I am economically sorry seeing it slowly crash and burn as it
was always a small but comfortable part of my wife and myself income and
livelihood.

I suppose one last "whine?" " IT'S THE GREED OF MANKIND BY PEOPLE IN  HIGH
PLACES who talk and play with millions and billions of dollars who
constantly want more and more that HAS BEEN THE MAJOR REASON FOR THIS
TRAVESTY CRASH AND BURN!" Right or wrong on my part? 

Certainly after reading an earlier post quoted from a news story, quite
amazing how greed can be such a force of destruction? A SHAME OF MANKIND!

cheers,
Dr. ted :-( 


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