The talking heads here in Germany explain their team's success so far to better technical abilities both from the individual players and as a team . . . .  ie, they have been better playing as a team.  I know there has been a long standing debate as to whether  �superstars� can contribute as much as they should in tournments like this . . .but  Germany has no real superstars,  . .  no Rooneys, Messis, Torres, or Robinhos and has found success so far, and the big named players have been disappointing.

Quote from: Magnum on June 25, 2010, 15:47

I thought these things happend every day.  Apparently not:)

It seems I will get $2000 for a customized wood sign similar to the Istock photo. They will get full right to it, exept to resell it as a photo. 
I hope Cclapper got a word doc that I can make some changes to and Im ready to proceed.  I feel no need to make it any harder.

They can use the photo for all eternity and I�m happy with it. What could happen?  I mean we sell photos for .25 that all ends up on heroturk. Can it be worse?

Thanks for all help

Make sure you get your money before sending them the full res version. Sometimes it's hard to get them to pay up after the fact. Keep that in mind.

This relates to what is call the �call girl principle� which states that the value of a service declines after that service has been performed.

Sure, if they are RF images.  Zoonar also sells RM images so don't get them mixed up . . .  know the difference, Zoonar does both.

Right, just sent them in . . . .  at least they make the procedure easy.

See http://www.microstockgroup.com/123royaltyfree-com/rejects-at-123rf-to-clear-the-pending-queue/

I already stopped uploading there, hope they will finally pay attention if more contributors do the same

+1

The one quote from Ansel Adams that stays with me is this:

"You don't take a photograph, you make a photograph."

(I hope I got that right)

PS . . .  I forgot I was talking to a bunch of salty old dogs so I guess everyone knows that quote.

Quote from: cclapper on June 04, 2010, 08:50

Does that mean that the top photographers get all 50,000+ of their images approved first and are on the market for months before we even get a shot?

I hate being a peon.  

Thanks for posting the text here, Cathy.  I don't like to have to click links to keep up with discussions here either

I doubt the issue is that they are giving some sort of pass to the top guys.  More likely those folks were consulted in the beginning and were part of the site from the planning stages.

I am guessing that the word got out before they are actually ready to begin reviewing submissions.  Notice this was a post on Lee's blog, but there was no general announcement here requesting submissions, and they are familiar with this board.  Maybe those of us who are eager to support them have jumped the gun a little...

That's what I think also . . . . a new site has to make a lot of noise these days to be seen, just mentioning the fact on a blog won't get it done.

You can view it in Firefox if you don't want to use IE8.

its so hard to teach an old dog new tricks . . . .  but doesn't this limit the client base a tad?

Big hard drives are cheap now and when the re-sized image is uploaded, is there any point in keeping it?  It will save a bit of time uploading but I still fear that the site is now going to be swamped with microstock images and sales will be diluted. I am uploading my microstock portfolio now, I have resisted so far but this has changed my mind.

I too have tried to respect Alamy as a non micrtostock type site.  I am not too sure anymore, especially after recieving 50 cents for a sale last month.

I find this development very troubling.  If this �cell� fines a hospitable habitat who knows what the Darwinian consequence will be.  Will this cell have parasitic properties either now or later, will it mutate into something that can harm the environment or other live forms? If one thinks in terms of  Chaos Theory this is not good news.

Same here for all sites with the exception of SS which seems to be on par.  They say April showers bring May flowers but the garden seems empty.

Quote from: kaycee on May 09, 2010, 18:04

Hi were can I see the rejected ones?
I don't know if the upload process was correct.
I uploaded 50 but forgot to look if the upload process was ok/finished and now 2 are online.....
Yes only 2, so were are the rest of my images are the gone or all rejected?
 For the second batch I uploaded also 50 but only 26 are under review right now....where  is the rest (24 images) ?

Yes, this is one frustrating issue that I have with this site!  

Yesterday, I uploaded 158 images, however, only 122 showed up in the 'Under Review' queue.  

It really frustrates me that I'm unable to view which of my images are in the 'Under Review' queue.   Obviously, for some reason, 36 of my image uploaded images 'went missing', and because of the uploading process, I'm unable to ascertain which of the images 'went missing'.  

This is my experience.  It does take some time for the images to come Under Review, and you won't know until later which ones pass.  You just have to wait a few days.  You will recieve an email with the accepted and rejected images listed with explainations. The system works well, much faster than DT or IS and you don't have to worry about catagoires or keywords until later.