When I first visited London many years ago, I collected an acorn from Kensington Gardens and planted it in my back garden at home in Italy.

A nice little tree was born (picture 1).

Then I scanned a leaf and uploaded it to stock sites (picture 2).

Recently I found this ad at Westminster station (picture 3).

Little did I know that a leaf from my oak tree would return to London some fifteen years later as a stock photo.

Well, these are the little joys of a stock photographer. And just to make this out of topic thread a bit less useless, please feel free to post your interesting findings as well...

thats a very nice story!

Great story.

I'm too much of a n00b to post any of my "interesting findings" but I live in hope.

Another amazing thing about this story is that the face in the ad actually looks like Leaf, the owner of this forum. Quite remarkable. 

Great story, and congratulations for recognising it, even though it was your own pic. I'm sure I'd never have recognised it if it had been mine!

In fact, I wasn't completely sure (about the leaf being my own, not about the face being Leaf ).
I took a picture of the ad and checked back home.

did u sell it as RF? does it need an EL license for poster?

Quote from: mtkang on October 20, 2012, 20:54
did u sell it as RF? does it need an EL license for poster?

Yes, I sold it as RF. Don't know on which site, but most sites allow a very high run without an EL so I have no problems with their usage.