[Leica] Be enlightened: Work for free!

[Christopher Crawford]

Peter,

Even those of us who sell our work and make a living from doing so get
requests like this all the time, and not just from crazy religious cults.
We get them from profit-making businesses all the time. I tell them I
don¹t give my work away, and I quote a price to license the photos. Some
actually pay at that point because they want the photo bad enough, others
don¹t write back, and a few have written me nasty emails!

-- 
Chris Crawford
Fine Art Photography
Fort Wayne, Indiana
260-437-8990

http://www.chriscrawfordphoto.com  My portfolio

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On 12/10/16, 4:00 PM, "LUG on behalf of Peter Klein"
<lug-bounces+chris=chriscrawfordphoto.com at leica-users.org on behalf of
boulanger.croissant at gmail.com> wrote:

>LUG:  I just received the following "flickrmail" request to publish one
>of my photographs in a calendar.
>https://www.flickr.com/photos/24844563@N04/5265537626/
>For free, of course.  Here's the note I received"
>
>    "We have seen your touching photograph shown in the link below, and
>    would love to include it in our Prayer & Meditation Calendar 2018,
>    which can be seen here: PrayerMeditationCalendar.org. Due to budget
>    constraints, our nonprofit universal spiritual organization
>    publishes this calendar each year largely through the kindness of
>    photographers who donate their images. All of us serve as unpaid
>    volunteers to further the cause of love and unity among all beings.
>
>    "We offer to send a calendar to the photographers and provide the
>    credit lines they prefer. Would an arrangement like this be
>    agreeable to you? If so we will need the image highest res & 300 ppi
>    on the shortest side, your preferred credit line and your mailing
>    address."
>
>The signer has a one year-old flickr account with no photographs. This
>is the organization involved:
>http://truthconsciousness.org/about/truth-consciousness-organization/
>And I found this:
>http://www.westword.com/news/hide-the-swami-5055176
>
>Anyway, it made me feel pretty low.  If my work is only of value to scam
>artists and bottom-feeders, and only if I give it away, why bother?
>
>--Peter
>
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