got this mail also yesterday and replied immediately stating that I have never ever changed any single character nor in my keywords, titles and/or descriptions after submission and that I expect an excuse for this false accusation as they accuse us of some fraudulent action >=99% of us have never committed.....

QuoteWe have become aware that your portfolio now includes titles with spammy repetitive words or phrases

as opposed to before I guess

it would have been very easy for them to investigate as any change in the DB is timestamped to foolproof any date of change up to a milisecond

At least I will not take any action on it nor do I care, as I have much better things to do, there must be a holiday jobber sending out these mails.

To reach the high of impudence this mail is either signed not carrying any ticket number or alike to really follow this back or get a conversation. Calling this "unprofessional" is falling short. It's spam at its very best imho

Quote from: namebrandon on January 13, 2011, 19:52
You're right, it does seem a little ridiculous to need model releases of people out in public or at a public event, but I expected ridiculous going in..

Thanks!

Why is that ridiculous ? Would you like to be photographed and published always you are out of home ? Doubt so

Quote from: sjlocke on April 08, 2011, 19:55

Quote from: herby11 on April 08, 2011, 19:52
I have always wondered why one would be aiming to become a free, self-employed photographer just to sign exclusivity with an "virtual" MS company, that does not make any sense at all. No matter how many little tiny icons they offer you for that and no matter how that company is called.

Really?  You've always wondered that?  Nothing better to wonder about?

Are you wondering about ?? 

I have always wondered why one would be aiming to become a free, self-employed photographer just to sign exclusivity with an "virtual" MS company, that does not make any sense at all. No matter how many little tiny icons they offer you for that and no matter how that company is called.

"My family has been involved in inventing colors for many years."

Yeah, and mine in inventing the wheel, but they were idiots. The real genius was the one who invented the other 3....

Wonder if his colors don´t come for free among the set of 16.7 millions every PC is shipped with..... 

as far as I understand he wants to make 40k out of the 25k he made there, but elsewhere instead...

I don´t agree at all with you, digitalexpressionimages, and I am also an professional graphic designer etc pp....and I also know about a "housewife" who made 70k in € (that are about 100k bucks) with iStock last year, this was even in the television.

The point is, it just does NOT matter, as graphic designers, also as photographers, musicians etc, having it studied or somehow learned from the roots means nothing as these are unprotected professions, so anybody can call himself a graphic designer or photographer etc, that is nothing new, and who wants to be in an protected professional environment better goes for being a lawyer or doctor etc, that is how it has been and will be

this is a free world, and the internet is a very free place, and if a housewife sells her images, she sells her images cause someone has a need for just that housewife images, and even if this maniac would be right that there are just 10 making a living out of MS, the real problem behind his ill blog is the fact that he obviously isn´t into this 10 making a living out of MS.

I doubt he is making a living at all out of photography, cause if he would, he just would not care, but he is simply not good enough to make such a living, not even against unprofessionals and wannabees

But with all his talk he has reached a level I hardly believe he can top , so I would not wonder if this guy will leave one day his blog and act in real life instead

I dont know anything about the buildings in Washington DC, but as you have also made a general statement:

FYI, here are 2 links I just found:

http://asmp.org/tutorials/photos-public-buildings.html

http://www.pacaoffice.org/resources/specialReleases.html

As you see, for example the Rockefeller Center is under such protection and is pretty viewable from a public place, the Flat Iron is, the Chrysler BUilding and a long etc, and also, meanwhile not new to me but still hilarious, the Hollywood sign is...

And in general, modern architecture by famous architects is always problematic and more often protected than not, so if you see something that you might think is WORTH a shot, chances are, it is NOT

Pixart, you did what I was resisting for, but for sure I came to the very same place, hence we should give him a chance to declare himself, and if it´s just to not to fall onto his level. As I said, I would not wonder, if the ill brain behind that domain has faked the registrants name, but would contact this person by any means if i were Travis to see if he is the one behind that all, and act upon outcome. I am sure that blog qualifies for some legal action.

you can always run an whois request against any given domain to get an idea who´s behind that and google that info later on to track that person down.... in the case of this blog I would not wonder if this information is just a total fake, so I resist to post the outcome here for not compromising anyone who probably has nothing to do with it at all...