Well done! Don�t keep us all in suspense - let�s see it!

I have a mixture of videos awaiting inspection for 7 months - some obvious locations like London landmarks, some generic rural scenes.

Since Adobe and Getty are the only games in town now, if Adobe don't get their inspections sorted it'll make exclusivity with Getty far more attractive.

Good take:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jan/31/tech-bros-deepseek-china-sam-altman-openai?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

I received the email and sent a letter to my MP.

I urge all UK based creatives to do the same.

https://www.creativerightsinai.co.uk

Can anyone tell what certification each agency actually requires and checks to upload footage to their collection?

Do any of them ask for details of the certifications / licensing / flight training / registration required for the country of the artist or the country where the footage is taken?

Whatever else is going wrong in America, I've always admired the way they care for their National Parks.

Since everyone is abandoning Twitter, I thought I'd try Bluesky. It's very easy, even for a social media hold out like me.

My profile name is:

@fotovoyager.bsky.social

I thought I'd post some of my ongoing photo projects on there, see if there's any point to it (I'm sceptical).

Be interested to see if anyone else is doing the same, let me know what your profile names are so I can have somebody to follow!

I've got 44 non-ai videos waiting a month atm.

Which is a pity, because Adobe are easily the best place to sell videos in terms of download/royalty ratio as far as I can tell.

I hate to be cynical but the history of the stock agency - artist relationship should be screaming a warning to you all. There�s no way the source material for an AI edited download will be paid at the same rate as a traditional download. They�ll call it something that sounds like it�s not a proper download and pay you a fraction of what you were getting before. It�s always worked like that, this will be no different. We will wail and gnash our teeth in frustration and then accept our powerlessness just like every time before.

the people behind blackrock/vanguard attacking the christian/caucasian family unit (trying to 'encourage' boys/girls to cut off their body parts to become 'trans', or samesex, i.e., depopulation)...

Don't you have some pets to guard or something?

Lol, 'russian propoganda'? Are you not aware of what is 'really' going on? 'Ukraine' is transferring literally "trillions" of dollars to a small group of pyschopaths that organized convid (never was a 'virus', still isn't - poisons were in the masks/tests/etc designed to manipulate ppl into getting permanently poisoned + more, as well as attempt to close small businesses and transfer customers to big box retailers)... And, actually, you should read this, quite interesting insight as to how this small group of psychopaths thinks - and what they are 'trying' to do: https://educate-yourself.org/cn/protocolsofsion.shtml

(BTW, aside from the whole 'mask' thing was part of a satanicritual - it was also partially designed to see who the 'slaves' were. I was shocked and astounded how many people not only didn't use their brains, but dutifully put the demondiaper on their face... it had absolutely nothing to do with 'health'... if there was "a virus" (there wasn't, see above) - then you would have needed an actual "gas mask" with actual oxygen, not a flimsy piece of material that not only was sprayed with fluoride compounds (to actually make people sicker/dumber/etc) - but had fibers (like 'asbestos') that could/would get lodged in people's lungs, making their lungs 'irritated' (i.e., coughing/wheezing/etc) - making them think they were 'sick' (in a messed up way - they 'were' sick because they were voluntarily suffocating themselves and literally mentally ill), then injected themselves with an unknown substance (actually, it is quite known, but most people that injected themselves had no clue what it was) - a substance that among other things - actually DOES make them now 'permanently' ill - and all sorts of 'side effects', health issues, etc (including the jokingly "long convid" which simply means someone is suffering more from the injected poison than another person)...

But anyways - yes, what that other fellow said - small group of (very "financially rich" + totally demented) psychopaths that crave power/control, and use all sorts of psychological techniques to mess with people's heads. Most of what you learned in school about "100 year ago" history is totally inaccurate. And the psychos LOVE playing "the victim"  to make them appear above reproach. They are prolific liars, and when/if confronted - tend to double down on their lies to try and confuse the person challenging them - because most (normal) people are good people, and find it really difficult to believe there could be such psychotic sociopathic liars. Sadly though, they do exist - and a good portion of them pushed this total con (surprisingly) on most of the world.

This isn't politics, it's full on mental illness. Please seek help.

For many years the general rule for me was a dollar per image per month.

For lifestyle shooters it would have been much more.

Those days are long gone.

FYI PayPal won't let you transfer your balance, even when it's in US$, to a non-American US$ account, I tried it every which way in the UK and I presume it'll be the same in the Euro region.