[Leica] Shutterstock

[Tina Manley]

Thanks, Howard!  We are on a boat touring the Norwegian fjords right now.
We spending a month in Norway and Sweden searching for the Northern Lights.

Good luck with Alamy.  I still make enough from their sales to pay for
trips like this ;-)

Tina

On Sun, Jan 28, 2018 at 7:48 AM, Howard L Ritter Jr <hlritter at twc.com>
wrote:

> Great, Tina. Thanks for the lead.
>
> (I notice you’re 6 hours ahead of us here in the New World. Off to
> someplace exciting this time? Africa? The Svalbard Is.? Safe travel!)
>
> —howard
>
> > On Jan 28, 2018, at 3:35 AM, Tina Manley <tmanley at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Just say “NO!” to Shutterstock and all micro-stock agencies. They have
> been the ruin of stock photography. If you want to sell your work, look at
> Alamy. Their prices have fallen because of the micro/agencies, but at least
> you get 50% of the sale.
> >
> > Sent from my iPhone
> >
> >> On Jan 28, 2018, at 5:20 AM, Christopher Crawford <
> chris at chriscrawfordphoto.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Sites like shutter stock are awesome if you love making other people
> rich
> >> by giving your work away for pennies.
> >>
> >> There is a lot of money being made by stock sites like Shutterstock and
> >> iStockphoto, but very little of it goes to photographers.
> >>
> >> --
> >> Chris Crawford
> >> Fine Art Photography
> >> Fort Wayne, Indiana
> >> 260-437-8990
> >>
> >> http://www.chriscrawfordphoto.com  My portfolio
> >>
> >> http://www.facebook.com/pages/Christopher-Crawford/48229272798
> >> Like My Work on Facebook
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On 1/27/18, 10:53 PM, "LUG on behalf of Howard L Ritter Jr"
> >> <lug-bounces+chris=chriscrawfordphoto.com at leica-users.org on behalf of
> >> hlritter at twc.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> I was listening to an NPR show today where an interviewer spends 20 or
> 30
> >>> minutes speaking with some innovator or another. One of the subjects
> was
> >>> the creator of Shutterstock. This got me interested in the possibility
> of
> >>> trying to sell some of my images through a service like this.
> >>>
> >>> This may have been discussed on the LUG previously and I don’t recall
> >>> anything about it because it wasn’t relevant to me at the time. So I’ll
> >>> just ask for comments/observations/advice about Shutterstock: Thumbs
> up,
> >>> thumbs down, neutral, alternatives?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Thanks for any comments from voices of experience!
> >>>
> >>> —howard
> >>>
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Tina Manley
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