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Subject: [Leica] There are honest people out there :-)
From: michiel.fokkema at wanadoo.nl (Michiel Fokkema)
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2009 10:01:43 +0200
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Congratulations Nathan,
Great picture btw.


Cheers,

Michiel Fokkema

Nathan Wajsman wrote:
> Back in 2005, I posted this image among my PAWs:
> http://www.nathanfoto.com/paw/2005/2005_47alt2.jpg
> 
> The bridge is called Martinus Nijhoff bridge, and until a couple of days 
> ago I had no idea who this chap was. But now I know that he was a Dutch 
> poet. How do I know? Well, I received an e-mail from a poetry publishing 
> house in the UK:
> http://www.anvilpresspoetry.com/
> 
> They told me they were going to publish a book of his poems, translated 
> into English, and wanted to know if they could use the image for the 
> cover, even enclosing a PDF showing what it would look like. I replied 
> that yes, they could use it but I was not giving away my work for free. 
> On the other hand, realizing that a book of poetry by a Dutch poet is 
> not exactly going to make JK Rowling worry about being bumped off the 
> bestseller list, I decided to propose a symbolic fee of ?50 (license for 
> this particular use only) and a couple of copies of the book. They 
> happily accepted, and the price does not seem out of line when I look at 
> Alamy for this type of usage.
> 
> Nice people, and I even have a UK bank account to make it easy for them 
> to pay me :-)
> 
> Nathan
> 
> Nathan Wajsman
> Alicante, Spain
> http://www.frozenlight.eu
> http://www.greatpix.eu
> http://www.nathanfoto.com
> 
> Books: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/search?search=wajsman&x=0&y=0
> PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws
> Blog: http://www.fotocycle.dk/blog
> 
> 
> 
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