Quote from: luissantos84 on May 05, 2010, 11:43

Quote from: cuppacoffee on May 05, 2010, 10:52

I'll be good enough to explain. Your title is dairy upload issue, not daily upload issue - dairy is where you have milking cows, daily refers to a day. Anyway, DT offices are in Tennessee and they have had huge floods so there are a lot of glitches in places here and there. Their thumbnails for latest uploads have not changed in a week. I think they are fixing things little by little and that might explain your odd message.

ehehe yeh daily of course, my bad!.. thanks for you explanation, everybody prefered to joke around instead of doing the right thing!

But it was fun. Thanks! No one was picking on you, just having a good laugh with cheesy jokes.

Just some homogenized, pasteurized, wholesome, Grade A fun! (Moo)

Yes your right I will keep them online. But only as long as my subscription lasts. What I really mean then is in my situation I should probably focus on uploading to the big sites that I'm finding some success with.

I'm going for a read of your blog - are you full time now then?

I have had several editorial photos accepted, but I see that they have not gone live.   They don't show up as part of my portfolio, and they don't come up in a search.    Has anybody heard about when they are actually going to go on sale?

I've had reasonably good luck with selling editorial at Dreamstime and Bigstock, and I'm happy to give 123RF a chance as well.    I find that there is very little rhyme or reason as to which editorial submissions each site accepts.   Some of my best editorials (in my opinion) have been rejected at Dreamstime and/or Bigstock, but I'm pleased to see that they were accepted at 123RF.

I think the 12th was someone else, David.  Actually, my oldest pending is from 9 April.  I haven't submitted any editorial but understand there is a hold on adding editorial stuff to the database.  Not sure; just seem to have heard that somewhere. 

about BS upload,Uploaded a couple edited them and can't seem to find where to submit  for review.

@newsfocus1: I'm guessing that you're  a new user, and that you've only uploaded to our editorials so far? If you are, then chances are you have not been approved as a contributor yet. Our review net for passing new photographers does not take into account editorial upload amounts.  I think that's why your contributions aren't being reviewed.

Can you please provide me with your userid on 123rf? Please feel free to drop me a PM if you don't feel comfortable revealing it here. We will check for it and approve your membership right away so we can start reviewing your photos.

Hi David. I saw your referral link for them on your blog. Signed up and uploaded first five. Got all approved and email from them this morning. One thing troubles me. The emails I get from them have nothing in the "From" line. When I got the approval email, I went to the site to upgrade to PN Pro. What the heck, it's only 10. Clicked on the link in second step to verify email and nothing happened. I had already clicked on the link in the first email they send to verify email. Anyway, I couldn't go any further to upgrade. Sent a message via their Contact Us link. Got a nice reply back from the postal service that:

"This is the mail system at host www.picturenation.co.uk.

I'm sorry to have to inform you that your message could not
be delivered to one or more recipients. It's attached below."

Hmmmm ... so how do you contact them? David, you're having such good luck with them, wouldn't return mail like this be a little suspicious, or do you have another way of contacting them?

Don't want to put too much time into this if I'm beating a dead horse.

Thanks David, same to you. After such a long time offline I was expecting a complete overhaul of the website. At first glance it appears to be exactly the same as when it went down a few months back. Has anyone noticed any changes?

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Thanks for the reply David, editorial is not something I'd considered for micros, I don't do that sort of stuff but the small amount of editorial that I do take I put on Alamy, for someone with your background is it something you think will take off or are you testing the water.


Hi Richard, It certainly does well on SS and I recently joined DT where, so far, it is doing well. Got quite a few sales on the UK agency as well, but I've promised myself not to mention them tonight! By editorial, in my case, it's a mix of archive celeb shots Margaret Thatcher etc and everyday events like the Hastings marathon/ May Day procession (e.g. street pictures featuring loads of people). Obviously, if I ever had a hot news story I'd be contacting the national press first, not putting it on microsites, but for editorial shots sitting on file  I find it worthwhile. BTW signed up to 123RF today, so we'll see how they go when they launch the editorial side. Regards, David.