[Leica] Be enlightened: Work for free!

[Douglas Barry]

I get those betimes too, Peter, but so far not from the organ of a sex 
abusing swami. The awful thing is he's using gullible photographers' images 
in his rag to lure further devotees who he then probably takes advantage of. 
Who was it said, "If you want to get rich, you start a religion."

Douglas



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Peter Klein" <boulanger.croissant at gmail.com>
To: "lug" <lug at leica-users.org>
Sent: Saturday, December 10, 2016 9:00 PM
Subject: [Leica] Be enlightened: Work for free!


> 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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