Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2016/12/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Just tell them to go and screw themselves. I received a princely transfer from Alamy this week, all of 65 EUR or so, for reasons that escape me at the moment. I invested the loot in whisky and port. Cheers, Nathan Nathan Wajsman Alicante, Spain http://www.frozenlight.eu <http://www.frozenlight.eu/> http:// <http://www.greatpix.eu/>www.greatpix.eu PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws <http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws>Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/ <http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/> Cycling: http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator <http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator> YNWA > On 10 Dec 2016, at 22:00, Peter Klein <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