[Leica] Be enlightened: Work for free!

[Christopher Crawford]

It was L. Ron Hubbard, founder of Scientology.

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Chris Crawford
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On 12/10/16, 8:53 PM, "LUG on behalf of Douglas Barry"
<lug-bounces+chris=chriscrawfordphoto.com at leica-users.org on behalf of
imra at iol.ie> wrote:

>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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