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Microstock Photography Forum - General => General Stock Discussion => Topic started by: eyeCatchLight on September 14, 2010, 08:21

Title: Lonely Planet Images
Post by: eyeCatchLight on September 14, 2010, 08:21

Hey,

is anyone submitting to Lonely Planet Images? Ok I know it's not microstock...
Is it worth, hard to get accepted?

Simone

Title: Re: Lonely Planet Images
Post by: surpasspro on September 14, 2010, 08:39

They require exclusivity, so for me it won't work.  They also require a commitment to represent selected images for a minimum of 5 years

Title: Re: Lonely Planet Images
Post by: PeterChigmaroff on September 14, 2010, 09:59

I have not paid close attention to them but from what I have taken in they are in the Not-With-A-10-Foot-Pole category.

Title: Re: Lonely Planet Images
Post by: madelaide on September 14, 2010, 10:13

If I remember it right, when I checked them long ago, they required exclusiivty and a minumum of 500 or so images.

Title: Re: Lonely Planet Images
Post by: traveler1116 on September 14, 2010, 10:29

From Lonelyplanetimages: http://www.lonelyplanetimages.com/prospective_photographers (http://www.lonelyplanetimages.com/prospective_photographers)

Exclusivity

Lonely Planet Images will only licence images to third parties that it represents exclusively. Exclusivity is required to guarantee clients that the same or similar image will not be licensed for use by competing clients. Granting exclusive representation rights to LPI has several benefits including: increasing the potential value of an image, creating a distinction between quality library stock and royalty-free stock, giving clients confidence in the originality of images and setting high standards that will be respected by clients. Although the images are represented exclusively, photographers may reproduce their own images on their own website, in exhibitions (including print sales from such exhibitions), self-promotion, or publications that feature the photographer and their work.