was the boat ID number visible?  if so i am guessing that would ahve been the reason.  Try taking it away with a clone tool.

No  , the numbers are not visible , and I had similar photos approved before , so I'm thinking if they have a policy to not accept photos like that for some law questions or something , wouldn't it be logical to remove all similar photos without a release from the gallery ?

Well , I just got few rejections for boats , one rejection for a small wooden boat , one for sail boat at open sea.

Do we need a property release for boats on open sea from now on ?

Well I found hundreds of them in the search engine  , I saw cruisers , tankers , etc , and I doubt that all of them have property release , at least I'm sure for all of mine that were previously approved without any.



 

I would avoid skies for application review , one of the best examples where small amount of noise is easily noticable , especially on the dark parts of the sky ,and at SS they don't like noise.

If you do sent them photos with sky , and you said that you use noise reduction as a last step , be sure to use layer mask on the clouds , cause the amount of noise reduction that its
necessary to remove the noise from the dark blues of your sky , will most probably wash out your clouds texture , and you will risk to get refusal for artifacts etc.


I would try to send them 2 -3 simple textures ( stone , metal etc), they are easily to take , its hard to find noise on textures , and from experience I can tell that the don't refuse them. Few of my friends tried with that and it went well every time.


Good luck




     

Well , I own one for about a year now , and I can only tell good things about that piece of glass.

I had to do that in the first place to open my account or it was optional to raise my limit I don't remember exactly but I did all that, and after almost 2 years of using moneybookers I never had a single problem.

I think thats good news. I doubt that iS will loose a lot of customers. And I do not think the last price increase has hurt iS growth at all. My guess is we will continue to see price increases throughout the microstock industry for the next years.

I agree on that , but the problem is that there will always be sites that will always try to have lowest prices and compete with big ones that way.

I thing that the best thing for photographers  that could happen in the future  is that   contributors form some sort of union , and a strong one. Its never possible to include all contributors , but if  most of the big non exclusive ones were part of souch project , that would start a new era of microstock.

Thank you people. I never got one of those till now , so I was confused for a moment .
Since the mails are from few months ago I wont even bother to contact paypal.



Anyway, I was watching a cartoon recently where a character is working on his computer and a hand of another character comes out from the monitor and gives him a quick slap every now and then.

Boy I would love if I could use my hand like that sometimes , on people that are writing those mails. Just for fun.



Thanks again

I just logged on a e-mail that i never use just to check if it still works and I had 2 strange e-mails from few months ago.

First one:

On Sep 26, 2007 3:53 AM, Account Information <[email protected]> wrote:
> We recently have determined that different computers have logged onto your Online Banking account, and multiple password failures were present before the logons. We now need you to re-confirm your account information to us.
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> If this is not completed by September 28, 2007, we will be forced to suspend your account indefinitely, as it may have been used for fraudulent purposes. We thank you for your cooperation in this manner.
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>   To confirm your Online Banking records click on the following link:
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> Thank you for your patience in this matter.





And second one from paypal

On Jul 11, 2007 7:12 AM, PayPal Security Center <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear valued PayPal member,
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> It has come to our attention that your PayPal account information needs to be updated as part of our continuing commitment to protect your account and to reduce the instance of fraud on our website. If you could please take 5-10 minutes out of your online experience and update your personal records you will not run into any future problems with the online service.
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> However, failure to update your records will result in account suspension. Please update your records on or before July 13, 2007.
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> Once you have updated your account records, your PayPal session will not be interrupted and will continue as normal.
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>   To update your PayPal records click on the following link:
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> Thank you,
> PayPal Update Team




The problem is that I never set a paypal account , never needed on cause it doesn't work in my country ....


I cant figure this out , are those spam mails , and I should just forget about that or should I do something ?

Thanks

Congratulations

I just followed your link an I was surprised when I notice one of my images there , like you first time this happened to me on any site








 

Well , hatman12 was faster   

Quote from: sharply_done on November 13, 2007, 17:08

Quote from: leaf on November 13, 2007, 14:30

nobody said you had to make a political picture.  So something with the banana, or the frog, you don't have to choose bush.

I'm sure there will be many Bush-head-on-a-mannequin-with-a-banana-in-the-obvious-spot images ...

Or Bush polluting the world, or Bush bombing the world, ad infinitum.

I dare Crestock to replace that image of Bush with a Muslim political figure.  Let's see how long the company will last after they have a fatwa issued out on them.  In other words, the reason people complain against a democratic society is because they can.

While I have never voted for Bush, and don't agree with many of his policies, he is light years better than many other leaders around the world.

Its obvious that they are pointing to all those thing that you mentioned and I cant agree with you more that its not ethical maybe even illegal to state your political principles in a contest like that. Everybody here understand that , some admit  it some don't but thats their problem. I wont participate in a contest like that , and I don't want to be pulled in a cave full of someones else's thoughts even if I share those, for any fruits , even for apples, because I don't think Crestock and a contest is  place for that.


But pleeeeeease , don't start with involving world leaders , Muslims , your political statements , or how Bush is better that anyone cause you will start a political topic

In my country its quite simple , healthcare and music are close connected.

If you catch something serious you can start looking for bands willing to play on a humanitarian concert to raise founds for your operation.