[Leica] There are honest people out there :-)

[imagist3 at mac.com (George Lottermoser)]

Gorgeous image
and a perfect venue
for it.

Did you discover how they found the image
and knew it was their poet?

Regards,
George Lottermoser
george at imagist.com
http://www.imagist.com
http://www.imagist.com/blog
http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist

On Aug 16, 2009, at 12:09 AM, 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
>
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