Quote from: Matemir on April 13, 2011, 09:32

I know is hard to instantly shut down one's iStock account.There is a lot of work in it.
Regards,
Dmitry

Apparently it's not difficult at all. You just write to Support and ask for your account to be closed and to receive any monies due to you. If your portfolio is quite small, you could even just delete your images manually if you don't want to wait until Support do it for you.

Yup, contacted Supprt last Oct or Nov (maybe) to shut down and payout my account. That was one thing they did flawlessly.

I can depend on your own definition of the word.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professional

"Definition

Main criteria for professional include the following:

    A professional is a person that is paid for what they do. Qualifications have little to do with being a professional as the world's "oldest profession" is strictly a monetary gain career. An amateur maybe more qualified than a professional but they are not paid, thus they are an amateur."

I would not even give it a second thought. All the time that blog has been up...it still has zero followers.  

My new blog with 5 post has 4 followers at least.    Plus I dont know what I am doing with blogging.

I wonder how the Getty People are taking it?

Its Up

bigdeadstock for me

I just did my first tutorial on how I make Homemade Soap the Hot Process way in a Crock Pot. Never used Instructables before but I think it came out ok.

Yes I mention my website in it  because I am also hoping to drive some type of customer traffic to the store. On Etsy, you got to drive the traffic if you really want to sell.

But, someone may gain info out of it. I think Soap Making is kinda neat.

http://www.instructables.com/id/Handmade-Hot-Process-Soap/

Parents: this is a prime example of why you need to watch what your kids are doing on the interweb. 

Good job coming into a microstock forums to talk smack about microstock. We've never seen that one before. Very original.

Thats the Kanye West School of Marketing Degree.

You could also make $16,500 a day teaching photography.


Seriously though... you come into a MS Forum this way and expect us to "see the light" or something.  

Quote from: LSD72 on March 22, 2011, 18:29

This might sound cold but He knew what the risk of going was. Even in "friendly" Saudi Arabia.. the possibility is high for an American to get grabbed and used as bait or video display.

No it isn't. Where did you get that idea from?

A cousin of mine. He got back from that region not too long ago. Military with certain clearances and gets certain briefings. That's about as clear as I will get with it.

When I was in Berlin, My Unit dealt with sensitive security stuff. We had briefings and alerts that others did not know about.. even the others at the site we worked. Comes down to the old line of "Need to know". Just like I am sure we did not get told what others were getting briefed on because it did not deal with security. That stuff had us drawing down on some Brit. Soldiers on an Exercise because they did not inform us. Anyways.. there ya go.

Just upgraded to it. Add this on for checking on unauthorized photo use...

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/who-stole-my-pictures/

@LSD72 I'd like to get my Etsy shop and my Zibbet shop going but where we live the closest post office is in the next towns either west or east.  We don't have one for some reason.

If you get mail delivered to your home, you can print off first class postage within paypal. I just found that out. Used to be just Priority Mail. Print it, tape it to the package and hand it over to your mail man or you can schedule a pick up too. Only restriction is the weight. Over a certain weight has to go across the counter at the post office.

They even told us we could get shipping boxes and stuff mailed to us all for free. Have not checked it out yet but apparently you can go to usps.com and create an account and order the stuff. Will look into that in a day or two.