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Agency Based Discussion => Alamy.com => Topic started by: devon on August 04, 2010, 21:30

Title: Alamy just sold an image for £30,000.
Post by: devon on August 04, 2010, 21:30

Alamy just sold an image for £30,000. WOW!!  :o

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Title: Re: Alamy just sold an image for £30,000.
Post by: Pixart on August 04, 2010, 22:28

As my kid would say  ZOO-WEE-MAMA!!! 

Title: Re: Alamy just sold an image for £30,000.
Post by: sobm on August 04, 2010, 22:52

which photo? :o

Title: Re: Alamy just sold an image for £30,000.
Post by: madelaide on August 04, 2010, 22:57

I can only dream!   ;D

Title: Re: Alamy just sold an image for £30,000.
Post by: sharpshot on August 05, 2010, 02:10

60% commission on that would be nice.  I have seen them sell for this price or more a few times but I think most of the images have to be special to get that much.  They probably wont pay that for one of my snapshots :(

Title: Re: Alamy just sold an image for £30,000.
Post by: Magnum on August 05, 2010, 06:11

I´ll go check my Alamy account then...

Title: Re: Alamy just sold an image for £30,000.
Post by: cathyslife on August 05, 2010, 07:07

I'm guessing there was a little behind-the-scenes finagleing going on to get a price like that.

Title: Re: Alamy just sold an image for £30,000.
Post by: Blufish on August 05, 2010, 07:08

That must be some photo

Title: Re: Alamy just sold an image for £30,000.
Post by: gostwyck on August 05, 2010, 07:35

Quote from: Blufish on August 05, 2010, 07:08

That must be some photo

Not necessarily __ it just happened to be the image that most closely fitted the buyer's needs. The price is determined by how the image is to be used, not for it's artistic merit.

A very ordinary image of a straight road through scrubland sold for a similar amount when it was used as the backdrop for a movie poster. You couldn't actually see much of the original image because the movie stars were superimposed over most of it.

Title: Re: Alamy just sold an image for £30,000.
Post by: sharpshot on August 05, 2010, 07:38

I think they also sold one of an elephant surfing, I don't see that every day :)