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Subject: [Leica] There are honest people out there :-)
From: photo at frozenlight.eu (Nathan Wajsman)
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:26:32 +0200
References: <F0E9267F-B1AC-490E-88FB-399FA255F3D3@frozenlight.eu>

...And yesterday they paid :-)

I think this is my first direct sale ever (I have previously sold a  
few images through Alamy and the like).

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



On Aug 16, 2009, at 7:09 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
>
> 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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