Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/12/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Donal Philby wrote: > > David Morton wrote: > > > ted wrote: > > > > > Question? When you are using your Leica what do you consider the > > > most > > > important element in the picture taking? Other than loading film. > > > > A clear commission, and prompt payment of the previous invoice. :-) > > > > TRUTH! I said it with a smiley, but I was only half joking. I hate getting vague commissions, delivering what I understand they want, and then getting told "Oh, we were thinking more along the lines of blah blah blah". Well if that's what you were thinking, telling me before I submitted the piece would have been a *really* good idea. And payments, there's nothing more de motivating than trying to work on the March issue of a publication, when you haven't been paid for November (this is the case now, with one of my clients). In the UK the situation can be *dire*, as many publications pay on *publication*, or even a month *after* publication, and not on delivery. That means it can be 90 or 120 days or longer from doing the work to getting paid. I don't have a good feel for the situation in the US, but the one publication I do work for there is *spectacularly* good by comparison. I sent them two invoices by email on the December the 4th, and the cheque (sorry, check) arrived here on Monday the 21st. Given that it often takes 10 days for a letter to cross the pond, that really is efficient. Mind you they had some trouble paying me at first, 'cos they'd never paid a foreign contributor before! "You haven't got a US SSN", er no, "you haven't got a Green Card", er no, "you haven't filled in IRS form W-9", er nope! For a European that kind of parochialism can be quite startling. But they're first class now they've got the hang of it, maybe I should move :-) David Morton | "Times are bad. Children no dmorton@journalist.co.uk | longer obey their parents and David.Morton@openconsulting.co.uk | everyone is writing a book." (+44) 171 917 6272 | Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC)