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Don't know about you guys but I'm counting the days till 'Punctum Day'.

I've got a gut feeling that this year they are going to do away with the stereotypical 'weird and wacky' winning image from an exclusive, and the winner this year will be from a non-exclusive and it will be a run of the mill image that's just nice.

I've got this little baby that I know people have held back on rating (or buying come to that) until this years contest was announced:



What about you, got any treasures buried just waiting for the announcement of Punctum Day 

Can you really imagine that the 'image of the year' will be non-exclusive and thus iStock risks having that image available at many other agencies?

Would YOU allow that to happen if you were running iStock?

Of course not.

The winners will all be exclusives.  And that makes sense.

I agree with hatman, although I wish I would get an image in the final selection I doubt and do not have much hopes that a non exclusive will win. However I must say the last years winners images were very well the award Photo/vector of the year worthy.

No absolutely not.

And if I were running iStock I wouldn't either, but that was the point of my subtle post, why the pretence?

Why can't they just be more open and say it's a competition for exclusives.

As a non-exclusive I don't have any problems with them giving exclusives a better deal, I'd be surprised if they didn't, I hate the whole 'them and us' attitude, for me being exclusive doesn't appeal, for some it does, it doesn't make either party any better than the other.

Maybe next year they'll introduce image exclusivity and just have the competition open for exclusive content only.

Interesting!  I didn't follow Punctum this year, but nice to know everyone has a shot at it