Quote from: cathyslife on July 21, 2022, 12:16

I actually do read stuff from world climate scientists.

Is that so?

Quote from: cathyslife on July 21, 2022, 12:16

I want to hear YOUR plan for how climate can be changed. There is lots we can do to clean up earth, but it still won�t change the climate.

Except that it will. The release of greenhouse gases (mainly CO2, but also some other gases like methane) increase the temperature of a planet. Therefore, reductions in the release of greenhouse gases reduce this increase. There are also some gases that can reduce the temperature, like sulphur dioxide, although the side effects of that gas make it unfeasible to use it to control the climate.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenhouse_gas

Have your world climate scientists never mentioned greenhouse gases?

Funny Scientific Fact:

In fact, carbon dioxide, which is blamed for climate warming, has only a volume share of 0.04 percent in the atmosphere. And of these 0.04 percent CO2, 95 percent come from natural sources, such as volcanoes or decomposition processes in nature. The human CO2 content in the air is thus only 0.0016 percent.

Relax...

I don't know why people waste so much time obsessing about me. They (you) would be a lot better off obsessing about your own port.
business?
Move on!

Dude, you do realize that you are trying to push yourself in the center of the attention with both arms and the legs to the limit that you complain people are obsessed with you ?

I painted an abstract canvas in acrylic with a pallet knife and took a picture of it.  I have a dozen of these.  After finally getting the property release right for SS, the image was rejected again with a note to make it an illustration, not a photograph.  What?  Is this the new normal for photographs of art?

I think you have to select a illustration category for it and that's that. BTW, requesting property release for your own art is most annoying thing ever.

Looking for ideas and I know that some people do this and do well. I asked Annie after she mentioned promotion using social media. Anyone else with ideas that have worked, please join in?

Well, I managed to replace my stock income with the one coming from POD so Ill share few thoughts if someone find them useful. BTW my portfolio was always to artsy for stock so Im not sure if this would work with classic stock portfolios.
 

1. Building social presence is a long term process and really time consuming

2. Organic reach on some platforms became non existent so focusing on that is a wast of time if you don't do payed promotion ( read FB )

3. Avoid only follow for follow or like for like in a niche cause you will just find yourself in a net of artist liking each others stuff. On the other hand it can be useful to have large following so I wouldn't totally exclude those methods.

4.Get to know more about your buyers...you have to figure that out for yourself

5. Be social, don't just post stuff for sale, you will most probably have to do marketing of yourself, your creative process which sucks for me cause I'm a introvert. If you do a research you will see that most popular artists tend to involve their personal life in their socials big time.

And another thing, one of the most important tools for random sales is SEO optimization of your content. You need to have your keywords in Title and Description. Long descriptions can also help.  Tags on the other hand are internal thing and are not helpful outside the selling platform. On FAA they openly state that 90+ % of sales come from google. Also building a own website that can rank stuff on long tail keywords can help a lot but its extremely hard to achieve in so saturated niche as art . So site hierarchy, ranking categories and serious keyword research is a must but that also doesn't guarantee nothing if the stuff you do is to competitive.

Having a niche is beneficial in my opinion , trying to market a little bit of everything...good luck with that

To me it's a challenge. All the whining about 10 cent sales is a waste of time.
Complaining about rejections is a waste of time.
In short, complaining is a waste of time.
The challenge for me is to overcome.
Marines are taught to improvise, adapt, and overcome all obstacles.
I think that's a good attitude.
I don't care to read about the whines. All forums are full of them.
I want to read about success stories not bs
My income kept going up after the dime hair cut. Then I hit a plateau.
I stopped uploading because I hit a block.
Now I'm back to taking pictures and uploading. It's fun!
I enjoy the challenge.
Here's the thing for me, Stock Performer tells me I'm in the top 80% on downloads.
But I'm only in the top 30% on income and now I'm in the top 60% on uploads.
The problem is obvious. I need to create more images people want to pay for.
So that's what I'm working on now. Yes, upload, upload, upload. Dimes add up.
On Shutterstock I don't upload on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Like everyone else I'm
tired of the goofy judges that reject everything. So I don't bother with that.
On comparing agencies. Yes, Adobe, Dreamstime, 123RF and so on pay more for pictures but
in the final analysis Shutterstock pays more at the end of the month because they sell a hell of a lot more.
Wirestock started out good but now has gone off the rails.
Adobe pays me more for the thousand or so images I have with them.
Yeah, even Dreamstime gives me greater earnings than Wirestock.
Anyway, that's how it works for me. How other people work is their business..
I'm not on forums much anymore because it's a waste of time reading all the whining.
I do a lot of research and try to keep my eye on the ball.
What I don't know is what pictures bring in the big bucks. I've not discovered
that secret yet. So that's the challenge for me.
People are free to cut off their noses to spite their face but Shutterstock rules.
If you can get on with Stocksy because they pay well and work with photographers.
Good luck and upload, upload, upload.

Each life has limited amount of time. Being stubborn and choosing to invest yours in something that has become so non rewarding in a world full of other possibilities �s a complete waste of time.

Good luck with that.

Quote from: Lizard on March 08, 2022, 13:23

Nice spin. Yes they are, together with other invader on sovereign countries.

No spin. You asked for an example and you got it. You're welcome.

You may also want to educate yourself on what fascism is.

FYI, fighting wars is not a sufficient reason to call a regime fascist. It may not even be a necessary reason. A regime can be fascist without any involvment in wars.

These are the main boxes checked by all fascist regimes:
- Authoritarian leader
- Supression of the oposition
- Submission of the ecomomy to the will of the government.
- Submission of the justice system to the will of the government.
- Suppresion of the free press and free speech
- Aggresive nationalist and cult of personality propaganda.

In other words, there is little difference between communism and fascism. The only difference is their position on the private property
The communists are confiscating it, while the fascists are tolerating it, as long as the owner is executing the orders of the fascist government.

Russia checks ALL boxes. We can add the aggression of several sovereign nations to it, if you want.

Russia simply switched from communism to fascism.

Once again, you are trying to implement I dont agree on that. I fully agree.

The problem is that is that you and half of the world are so focused on them that you fail to realize  how many boxes some other countries check with yours being high on the list. 

From building walls in fear of different, closing doors on refugees, racial issues, nationalism, patriotism, imprisoning people like Assange or Snowden for purely speaking the truth and revealing facts, invading sovereign countries against the will of our allies in UN, organizing revolutions, executing leaders without right of free trials, implementing laws on arresting people without a single proof for being guilty, having extreme percentage of population in prisons, police brutality...I could go on and on and on.

Pretty much same colors different shades. 

https://khpg.org/en/1608809502
KHPG is one of the oldest Ukrainian human rights organizations and partners with Amnesty etc.
Plus plenty of other articles on that site. To show the claim is ridiculous coming from Russia.

You want me to post photos of American NeoNazis militias? or from other Eastern European countries, almost all of which also have Neo *? How about photos of US members of congress attending white nationalist meetings or conventions? How many photos do you want? Thousands? I can dig up thousands if you like.

Yes, the ones that are part of official US army forces on national payroll.

Show me one , just ONE,  US soldier with nazi symbol on him standing in front of his superior.

I'm waiting...

Even those who are setting future laws might have a huge problem here. Personally I think the answer is in intent and how the photo is used. Same thing with public places.

Btw, will they remove google satellite images then also because its basically same thing in a way? 

I said it so many times: #whataboutism

You still here? Decided not to volunteer after all and stay in the hot by the stove eating mamas soup while calling out Europeans to fight a war ?   

Quote from: Lizard on March 08, 2022, 10:02

Quote from: Zero Talent on March 08, 2022, 09:46

They went for half of a swastika instead of the full of it.
Copyright concerns maybe? 🤔

Every cattle has its pot:

Yes, Ukrainian NeoNazis are also scum. They are also not the government of the Ukraine and have nothing to do with the real reasons Putin invaded. They are politically completely marginalised (unlike in Russia). They got like 2% of the vote if that (don�t have the number to hand). War only gives more power to these kinds of people anyway. Putin's attack will no doubt make them more popular as a war anywhere would tend to do with this kind of extremist group.

I can't fathom how your mind works. It is possible to not like two things at the same time. How do you see innocent people being attacked and your first impulse is to try and justify it or point the finger at something else not relevant to the situation?

Once again, Azov brigade is incorporated into National Guard and members are being financed from national budget. Whats a better argument to give a psycho in his agenda ? 

Just to be clear, anyone signing orders to attack civilians should rotten in prison until death. Any individual acting under such order should face the same faith.

And at the same time, anyone that spreads the fire during peace time should also face the same.

Like this 2 for example coming to spread fires in others peoples countries and:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bvt3asiSc8A

They should be locked in the same cell with Putin, and all people like them.

They went for half of a swastika instead of the full of it.
Copyright concerns maybe? 🤔

Every cattle has its pot:

Quote from: Lizard on March 06, 2022, 05:27

Quote from: Firn on March 06, 2022, 05:07

Lizard, I am not sure I am understanding what you are trying to say? That, in a democracy, whenever the elected government is making a decision for the country, the whole country was "forced" into that decision whenever there was no referendum? You don't seem to understand that referendums, while they are part of democracy, are extrenmely rare and just because there was no referendum about an issue (so in 99,99% cases) it doesn't mean a whole country was  "forced" into anything when a government that was rightfully elected by the people and given the authorities to make decisions for the people, actually makes a decision without asking every single person for their agreement.

Do you also understand what constitution of a country is ? If constitution says referendum has to be held when entering international unions and +50% turnover is needed something to be valid, than 43% is a referendum that did not pass. Changing rules after to fix the result is a criminal act.

This is not correct. The turnout for the referendum was only 43% (= only 43% of eligible voters took part in the referendum - for whatever reason). This 43% of the participating population voted 67% in favor of joining the EU.

TRUE!!!

Exactly what I said, and for a referendum to be valid more than 50% of voters should take part.

Article 6 or Clanak 6 in Croatian:

Na dr�avnom referendumu odlučuje se većinom birača koji su glasovali, uz uvjet da je referendumu pristupila većina od ukupnog broja birača upisanih u popis birača Republike Hrvatske.

 or...

The state referendum is decided by a majority of the voters who voted, under the term that the referendum was attended by a majority of the total number of voters registered in the voter list of the Republic of Croatia.

43% turnaround is not majority of registered voters.

 

And here is the full law on official government site.

 

https://www.zakon.hr/z/359/Zakon-o-referendumu-i-drugim-oblicima-osobnog-sudjelovanja-u-obavljanju-dr%C5%BEavne-vlasti-i-lokalne-i-podru%C4%8Dne-%28regionalne%29-samouprave


So what I stated is absolutely true, and by Croatian law that referendum was not valid.

If we wanted to exit EU and we had a new referendum with 49% turnaround with 100% of votes for the exit , the referendum would not be valid and we would have to stay in EU.