5 x 2gb Extreme III's for $49 while quantites last.

http://www.adorama.com/IDSCFE32G5P.html

Holy crap, I paid $160 for ONE 3 years ago.  I'm starting to feel like the old granny of digital when I can start saying such things.  Too bad 2gb are almost too small now for all the megapixels...  

If I can just hold out 3 more years, maybe I CAN get a D3X!

  Or buy one of the aforementioned



Much more fun than a private jet, and I might have enough left over for a D3X!

Wow, 2 Les Pauls for 100 bucks!  That has to be a find of a lifetime.  

I am actually one of the few people in the world who have a Strat.    I was visiting my parents, I'm the only musical one in a family of 6, and my dad hands this old violin to me.  He says "Do you want this, it was Dad's.  It's a Stratavarius."  Yes, my heart stopped.  And a Strat had just sold that year for something like 1.5 million.

It's old, it has Strativarius label, facibat ano 1726.  My sister and I looked it up in some of her antique books and supposedly around the turn of the century some clever crooks were going door to door in the northern US and Southern Cdn prairies selling these things "I'm having hard times, I need to feed my family... you can pay your mortgage with this some day".  

I never bothered to have it checked.  The book said that it would be more valuable as a spoon rack.  It's the only thing of my grandfather's I have though, and it IS an antique, so I think it's kinda cool.  And, it is actually better quality than MY violin (neither get played though )

There is a police auction of stolen/unclaimed goods here tomorrow and one of the items for sale is:

VERY LARGE CAMERA LENS F:500  D:80  WITH MOUNTING BRACKET IN GREEN CARRY CASE

Anyone know what that might be? 

Quote from: FlemishDreams on March 20, 2009, 14:08

Off topic: youtube can be a free marketing tool even for photos. AndresR, Arcurs, etc...

Hey you forgot the well known Vonkara advertisement video on youtube

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPmeLDn_ylA[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kh-f4GCxXNY[/youtube]

I know it's terrible. But I had so much fun making them LOL

We should have a challenge... who can put together a youtube to flog their stock images.  Would be a first for me.

I am Canadian and if I remember correctly I sent photo ID to Istock and before I could get paid I also had to mail a completed TD-1 or whatever that employment form number is with my SIN # and tax info on it.  I get a T-4 (earnings) from them every year for taxes.  I doubt they send documents to non-residents though.

Don't you (the agency) require some kind of declaration of citizenship?  Doesn't the IRS care about what Americans earning with your agency?  I would expect that this is the main reason the agencies require id.

And the original question, yes I would have a difficult time uploading ID to just any new agency.  You are quite new, but seem trustworthy.  Maybe you can request it upon the first payment.

Mine yesterday was agriculture - not sure if that is industrial but on DT that is under the industry category.

Hey, Sharply started this thread - maybe he won the lotto and is trying to make us all feel good?  Thanks dude.

Even though my new uploads are largely being ignored, my RPD has been going up each month thanks to OD's while my actual number of DL's are going down.  EL's almost stopped for me after the last price adjustment, but they seem to be back to the old norm in 09.  It seems that OD sales are making up about 25% of my monthly $ now and looking at the last 2 months, only one was a new photo, most were from 07 or 08.  Subs buyers moving to on demand or a shift in client base?

I stay the heck away from reporting spam.  For example, I have a photo of a bull elk.  No there is no bull (as a farm animal) in the photo but it is technically a bull elk, ask any hunter and they will say "I shot a (male) bull elk" or "I shot an (female) elk cow".  It is wrong though when you do a search for elk and you bring up moose or muledeer.   But I think that I would give the city slicker the benefit of the doubt, and guess that it is an honest mistake.  Also, you don't know why the keywords are there, they may be a required word for some esotaric reasoning.  If you feel there is a problem, you should inform the photographer before reporting it to the agency.   You can destroy their ranking, but I am sure that is the intention of many who report bad keywords. 

I wonder if they get new buyers from stories like this?  Likely not many, but maybe the ratio is similar once all the MWC's are rejected.

Is anyone in touch with Avava? I think he's from Seattle and would be a great interview.

Love the ideas.  I really love the playing card idea, but no manufacturer in Canada.  Both Blacks and Walmart sell them but neither have whole-sale accounts so they would cost the client quite a bit.  You are so right though, this is a great product for portrait sessions where the markup is higher.

RGebbie reminds me, I should look into T-shirts again.  My pro-lab makes a photo-T, it's SUPER CONVENIENT, but it's "Fruit of the Loom" which isn't the best quality so I kindof steered away from them.   Maybe parents wouldn't expect a nice American Apparel t-shirt though? 

Thanks

Sales way down and mostly subs...Sad story. Almost 0 views on new uploads there lately.

I had noticed that almost my entire first page of uploads had 0 views (for AGES) and then last night they all have 1.   Makes me think they were just indexed at JI or P.C . or something else that wasn't random.  I had 5 approved today, I'll try to watch when they get views and if they are at the same time again.