I really liked LuckyOliver and the people - staff and contributors, and am sad it didn't make it. So many ready with support, specific feedback...

Each contributor at any photography agency is involved in the business (yes, I know it's a business) for own reason, and there's a wide range of technical and creative abilities (and size) in portfolios, but, personally, I appreciated interaction with friendly, helpful people who shared passion for photography at LuckyOliver.    sad smiles - Ann

In fairness to SnapVillage, I'm really not just concerned about them and their contest, since it seems that it's standard procedure at a lot of sites.

Any stock agency that uses a contributor's image without compensation and/or credit doesn't seem to be taking the high road. (Color me naive.)

Okay, now back to SnapVillage's contest....

First, any person who creates mock ad doesn't even have to buy photo used in it  The Contest rules state designer can use watermarked version of photo.

If designer had to use OWN photo - which s/he doesn't -  at least then using the photo for free T-shirt is photographer's decision.

Second, it doesn't sound like the person whose photo is used will get any visible credit line if photo is used, even worldwide.  (I hope I'm wrong on this.)  So, having my photo appear w/o any notice it's mine would not be a thrill for me.


On the other hand, an earlier post mentioned that any ad that would drive sales to the site would be good in general for everyone selling photos there. I sincerely respect that person's viewpoint. However, any business like SnapVillage should certainly be able to afford to pay photographer and/or give visible credit line, for use of photo - especially if it's going to be widely distributed, even possibly in a magazine ad for all I know.


LuckyOliver used one of my photos in a blog, and they credited me with a blog sale. Now THAT's the way it should be all over!

P.S.  Since I was composing (and eventually posting) 1st version of this message during time leaf posted above, I wanted to mention I really like how he stressed the positive message about Lucky Oliver. 

At end of 2007 I cashed out at $40+ (but under 50) via paypal, and it cost 1.00 fee.

Stockxpert accepted my website for their affiliation program a while back, but I could never make a banner or live link work on my site.

Now I'm even more confused.  Am I supposed to create a jupiterimages affiliation for Stockxpert affiliation?

I feel I must be misunderstanding something, since setting up the affiliation banners/links for the other stock sites was easy.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.   smiles - Ann (aka parrypix)

This is a formal complaint against Unfortunatecantstopphoto.com's Terms of Use for Contributors, Article 372c:

#372c: All titles, descriptions, and keywords must be anagrams of Unfortunatecantstopphoto.com AND relevant to the photo.

Yes, there are well over 1,000 words that can be formed from Unfortunatecantstopphoto.com, but here's just one less-than-desirable effect of this rule: Every image will have to be taupe, unless we can use hue to stand in for every other color.

If Article 372c , aka the Anagram Debacle, continues in force, get ready to have your portfolio reflect subjects and concepts such as these exclusively:

contemptuous, catastrophe, cottonmouth, manufacture, portmanteau, accountant, autonomous, contestant, counteract, counterman, courthouse, monotonous, portentous, spacecraft, tantamount, technocrat, thermostat, toothpaste, touchstone, tournament, aftermath, afternoon, amorphous, astronaut, automaton, cancerous, compacter, component, composure, concourse, courteous, courtesan, craftsman, cutaneous, cutthroat, farmhouse, fortunate, horoscope, northeast, opportune, osteopath, outermost, parachute, paramount, proponent, sophomore, spectator, stateroom, transmute, trenchant, uppermost, uttermost, amputate, ancestor, apparent, approach, autocrat, automate, chaperon, chestnut, coachman, coauthor, comatose, concerto,  contempt, contract, corpsman, enormous, farthest, footnote, footpath, foursome, humorous, mustache, numerous, opponent,  pantheon, penchant, puncture, purchase, saucepan, scarface, shortcut, spectrum, teaspoon, tomatoes, topnotch, tortuous, upstream, account, cartoon, coconut, camera

Editorial photos - is there a list of microstock sites that accept them?

Dreamstime (and Featurepics?) are the only sites I belong to that I know accept editorial pix.

(I also contribute to Fotolia, LuckyOliver, 123rf, BigStockPhoto, Stockxpert, SnapVillage, and 1 or 2 others.  I'm not on Shutterstock or iStockphoto yet.)   smiles - ann

Yep, Geckostock's back. 

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Are Messages more private than Forum posts, google-wise?

Quote from: ann on January 04, 2008, 13:23

Has anyone experienced something like this before?  Is there anything I should do/worry about?

... I have OpenDNS in my IE settings and I get this message now:
Why isn't this site loading?

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The computers that run www.geckostock.co.uk are having some trouble. Usually this is just a temporary problem, so you might want to try again in a few minutes.

I think I have Richard's email address.

Regards,
Adelaide

Interesting, it would be great to hear any info you get, Adelaide.

Thanks - Ann

Quote from: ann on January 04, 2008, 13:23

Is there anything I should do/worry about?

Apart from Richard selling your shots on a CD door to door or on Ebay, nothing at all ;-)
Hospitalera should know more about it. I think she is connected in some way to the site. It's probably a server hickup.

thanks for the info, and love your sense of humor! - smiles - ann(overboard)

Sounds ominous.
Of course, many sites have temporary problems now and then, but there's usually some sort of page with a brief message stating they know there's a problem and are working on it....

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Yes.. Stunning quality.

Oh my goodness, if I hadn't seen these crops of woman's hair and eye, I wouldn't have begun to guess/understand what Yuri +  Hasselblad can do.  Amazing, bravo - Ann