[Leica] Be enlightened: Work for free!

[George Lottermoser]

> On Dec 10, 2016, at 3:00 PM, 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?

I recommend that you respond with the following.

I’ve decided to reprint your books;
and sell them for my own profit.

I’ll send you one of my copies;
so you can see that your name is on it.

fond regards,

George

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