Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2016/12/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Peter, Even those of us who sell our work and make a living from doing so get requests like this all the time, and not just from crazy religious cults. We get them from profit-making businesses all the time. I tell them I don?t give my work away, and I quote a price to license the photos. Some actually pay at that point because they want the photo bad enough, others don?t write back, and a few have written me nasty emails! -- 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 Become a fan on Facebook On 12/10/16, 4:00 PM, "LUG on behalf of Peter Klein" <lug-bounces+chris=chriscrawfordphoto.com at leica-users.org on behalf of boulanger.croissant at gmail.com> wrote: >LUG: I just received the following "flickrmail" request to publish one >of my photographs in a calendar. >https://www.flickr.com/photos/24844563 at N04/5265537626/ >For free, of course. Here's the note I received" > > "We have seen your touching photograph shown in the link below, and > would love to include it in our Prayer & Meditation Calendar 2018, > which can be seen here: PrayerMeditationCalendar.org. Due to budget > constraints, our nonprofit universal spiritual organization > publishes this calendar each year largely through the kindness of > photographers who donate their images. All of us serve as unpaid > volunteers to further the cause of love and unity among all beings. > > "We offer to send a calendar to the photographers and provide the > credit lines they prefer. Would an arrangement like this be > agreeable to you? If so we will need the image highest res & 300 ppi > on the shortest side, your preferred credit line and your mailing > address." > >The signer has a one year-old flickr account with no photographs. This >is the organization involved: >http://truthconsciousness.org/about/truth-consciousness-organization/ >And I found this: >http://www.westword.com/news/hide-the-swami-5055176 > >Anyway, it made me feel pretty low. If my work is only of value to scam >artists and bottom-feeders, and only if I give it away, why bother? > >--Peter > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information