[Leica] Be enlightened: Work for free!

[Nathan Wajsman]

Just tell them to go and screw themselves. I received a princely transfer from Alamy this week, all of 65 EUR or so, for reasons that escape me at the moment. I invested the loot in whisky and port.

Cheers,
Nathan

Nathan Wajsman
Alicante, Spain
http://www.frozenlight.eu <http://www.frozenlight.eu/>
http:// <http://www.greatpix.eu/>www.greatpix.eu
PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws <http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws>Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/ <http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/>
Cycling: http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator <http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator>
YNWA













> On 10 Dec 2016, at 22:00, Peter Klein <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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