Wow.  Just WOW!!!!  So glad you are safe!  It will take a long time to shake this one off.  I hope in a couple years everyone doesn't get lupus and sarcomas from the fuel.

And speaking of odds... now that this happened just yards away from you, you will never have to be nervous about flying again.  The chance that you will ever be involved in another aviation accident have to be way less than nil now. 

I grew up in the country, walked to the end of my lane to catch the school bus.  One morning my neighbor took off from his little dirt landing strip that went up almost in front of our house - he'd kinda roll the wings  left/right to say good morning.  At lunch the ambulance went down the highway by the school with the lights on but no siren or speeding.  Which pretty much means someone is DOA.

He was crop dusting and he used to go under the power lines instead of over them.  Sad.  It was one of his buddy's crops too and his girlfriend was sitting in a truck with lunch. 

Have spent several weekends in auditoriums and conventions centres at dance competitions.  My daughter has been dancing pretty well.  Has won two scholarships and we need to add an additional shelf for trophies.    It's a real privileged to watch kids from our City blossom/grow up.

No, I haven't met a Mom from another school that comes close to the tv show.  We are more of a "make friends backstage and support everyone" kinda town.

Thanks for that.  First one in 14 months.  Shows you how robust my sales are at CS 

Why would the royalty be any more than the value of a sub?  Presumably a download is made every time a print is purchased.

But I don't want that to sound like I'm sticking up for it.

They paid out 28% of the $494.3 million in 2016 revenue in royalties. That comes to approximately $138.4 million in total royalties paid to contributors in 2016.

How were they using the word "royalties" in this statement?  Was this a reference to all royalties collected and converted to U.S. Currency and BEFORE any kind of deduction?   Or do they take their deductions and then say they've kept 72% (when technically they've paid for their offices, massages, expense accounts but not shown us).    But wouldn't a company this size have several International entities that report individually?  Where do they fit in?

What about their receipt of "future" revenue for subscription purchases, and abandoned/expired subscription receipts - those monies should be other revenue, and not included in their definition of royalty revenue - so that would put SS pulling in a lot more than the royalties revenue they speak of.

Not on DT (sorry to derail) but a customer called me directly for a RAW file  - "I already paid for it on Bigstock - it's pretty small - we hope to get the original file just for a banner at a trade show".  I heard the words "I already paid for it" likely 6 times.  Whoopie - you paid either for a sub or bought an XS or a couple bucks (it was Bigstock after all).  We settled on a price and I dropboxed the file.  A very VERY good price for them too.

Famous advice I give everyone else and worth all caps.... COLLECT PAYMENT BEFORE YOU SEND THE FILE.  Got sick of demanding payment and have never received a cent.  I guess I had a weak moment as she was from the area where I grew up and it was one of those rolling prairie shots.    I didn't doubt she would need a raw file to work some magic on - ancient file from a 6mp D70.

While on the derail  - it's only February and I've received more bounced cheques already this year than I did all of last year.  They seriously bounce cheques for $15, $20, $80 bucks.  Bank charges me fees.  Their bank charges them fees.  If they actually want the packages I charge them fees when I can collect them.  I'm so sick of self employment I'm ready to toss my gear.  Between shooting for a living and rare stock photography I can't remember the last time I've taken a "creative" photo.

Okay, not supposed to single anyone out on this forum; but pointing out that rules have changed:  when I have submitted ONE "slight" HDR image it was declined because they don't accept HDR.  The first page I see of that port is all "strong" HDR!

Hohum.  I think it's time to remove my one photo from Istock.  So now they just keep the $19 it earned last year?

Kraft ran a Hockey Canada contest - they were selecting a hockey coach to honour and gifted cash and improvements to the home community club.   They used a photo of a coach friend out on the ice with a dry board and a circle of kids around him.  The twist to the story is a player on his real team wrote an essay nominating the same model/coach and he was selected and won the national contest - and no, Kraft didn't know he was in their marketing.  My son had him for 3 or 4 years and he really was an amazing coach.

My other stand outs are my son on a book called "How to Raise a Serial Killer"  and elk on the lid of a wooden toilet seat. 

Finding them on the Internet is one thing, but it's still a rush to randomly run into your work in a store or on a billboard.  Of course, after the initial thrill you will always think... "I don't remember ever selling an EL of that one...."

I would think it would be easier than going to court for copyright infringement. 

They have always had a free site, a few years ago when we started getting the "this image has not been downloaded in...."  they automatically would send it to the free site until "we" fought back.  They changed it to a tick-box to donate and an option to pay re-keyword your photo or remove it. 

First I've heard of https://www.megapixl.com/ though. 

I think Dreamstime has the option to donate it to the free site if it's not approved also don't they? 

My Oct 16/15/14 were virtually the same.  October 2013 and prior were all 20% (ish) better.

I wonder how long it would take SS to review 1M photos these days?  After all, it only took 13 seconds to review Lauren's 19 images the other day....