I really don�t know any Yaroslav in our company, otherwise I would have passed your regards on .

Great!

I have already explained that the communcation in the beginning was not how it should have been. We had a lot to learn back then and we have and now I am here to handle questions and queries in a polite, honest and direct manner.

Yes everybody has to learn. So wonderful. I admire how those tracks were covered and I honestly think our (well not mine) photos are in good hands. So I wish you the best of luck in Fort Lauderdale 

+1111111111111

Like with an ex-lover, with the love the hate should go away too. It's over. I don't like to bash them since they're not my business any more.
I can just hope that after their financiers sold them off, they regain their senses again and become the community site they once were.

Update : batch uploaded 17 Nov has mostly 0 views and  about 1/3 has 2 views.
One from 2005 has 2500 views but no sales. I made the mistake to put "teen" in the title. Sigh. I should delete that old crap done with a 3MP P&S.

http://flemishdreams.com/tag/

What am I missing here? This post doesn't really seem like a question nor does it make a point. Sounds more like something from Jack Handy's Deep Thoughts.

It feels like the pickup line of a Jehovah witness. So Sir, you think all this beauty came along just by itself? Don't you think this is the Work of a creative Intelligence? Definitely of course now can I enjoy my Sunday? 

What exactly is "nature photography" as far as you are concerned?

In my experiences, stuff that doesn't sell. Unless you're in real estate of course.

Yes, reading of EXIF data is not yet available. Once it becomes available we will send you a notification.

(1) Reading of IPTC (both base scheme and Adobe) is vital. (2) Also a model release library is vital. (3) Contacting Lee Torrens and buying his business guidelines for beginning stock sites is vital.

(3) Contact http://www.microstockdiaries.com/

(2) I have a full model/propery release module with user/admin interface needing 1 DB table but I can't put the demo in public since the test data are real models.

(1) Use this code: (I put it in public since all the OS forums are unaware of IPTC for microstock, it's all about galleries)
@Leaf: I hope it's OK to litter the forum with some code.

<?php
//========================================================================================
// IPTC extraction from JPG image
// -- images are in folder $ingestDirname, file name (*.jpg) is in $fileName
// -- returns true if the file is not a jpg image or has no IPTC; otherwise returns false
// -- if the file is OK:
// ---- returns $imgX, $imgY as image dimensions
// ---- returns $IPTC_title, $IPTC_description and $IPTC_keywords (array) as safe strings
// ---- returns $IPTC_diag_errors true if any missing IPTC, with corresponding variable error count incremented
// (c) Hugo Maes under a standard free GNU license - http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html
//........................................................................................
$IPTC_title = &#39;&#39;; // define globals
$IPTC_description = &#39;&#39;;
$IPTC_keywords = array();

function getIPTCfromImage ( $ingestDirname, $fileName, &$imgX, &$imgY, 
&$IPTC_diag_errors, &$IPTC_diag_notitle, &$IPTC_diag_nodescription, &$IPTC_diag_nokeywords, &$IPTC_dupekeywords ) {
global $IPTC_title, $IPTC_description, $IPTC_keywords;
//.. Initialize ........................
$IPTC_diag_errors = false;
$IPTC_title = &#39;&#39;;
$IPTC_description = &#39;&#39;;
$IPTC_keywords = array();
//.. Get IPTC info array ...............
list ($imgX,$imgY) = getimagesize ($ingestDirname.$fileName,$info); // built-in PHP function
if (isset($info[&#39;APP13&#39;])) {
$iptc = iptcparse ($info[&#39;APP13&#39;]); // built-in PHP function - http://php.net/manual/en/function.iptcparse.php
if (is_array($iptc)) {
$trtxt = " .,;?!&";
//.. Title .............................
$IPTC_title = (string)$iptc["2#005"][0];
$IPTC_title = stripslashes (strip_tags ($IPTC_title)); // sanitize user-supplied string
$IPTC_title = preg_replace ("/[^a-zA-Z0-9\s\,\-\&\&#39;]/", "", $IPTC_title);
$IPTC_title = trim ($IPTC_title, $trtxt);
if (strlen($IPTC_title) > 0) {
$IPTC_title[0] = strtoupper($IPTC_title[0]); // first letter title = upper case
} else { $IPTC_diag_notitle++; $IPTC_diag_errors = true; };
//$headline = trim($iptc["2#105"][0]); // you could look in the headline if object name title is missing
//.. Description .......................
$IPTC_description = (string)$iptc["2#120"][0];
$IPTC_description = stripslashes (strip_tags ($IPTC_description)); // sanitize user-supplied string
$IPTC_description = preg_replace ("/[^a-zA-Z0-9\s\,\&#39;\&\?\*\+\=\"\;\!\.\-\_\(\)]/", "", $IPTC_description);
$IPTC_description = trim ($IPTC_description, $trtxt);
//$IPTC_description = str_replace(&#39;"&#39;,"�",str_replace("&#39;","�",$IPTC_description)); // for users that used MS-Word; add chars in preg in that case
if (strlen($IPTC_description) < 1) { $IPTC_diag_nodescription++; $IPTC_diag_errors = true; };
//.. Keywords ..........................
$IPTC_keywords = $iptc["2#025"];
$IPTC_dupekeywords = array();
if (count($IPTC_keywords) > 0) {
foreach ($IPTC_keywords as $key => $value) {
$kwd = (string)$value;
$kwd = stripslashes (strip_tags ($kwd)); // sanitize user-supplied string
$kwd = preg_replace ("/[^a-zA-Z0-9\s\_\&#39;\-]/", "", $kwd); // if you allow compound keywords, leave the space (\s) and the hyphen (\-) in
$IPTC_keywords[$key] = trim ($IPTC_title, $trtxt);
};
$ta = array(); // eliminate duplicate keywords but keep a list in $IPTC_dupekeywords
foreach ($IPTC_keywords as $kwd) if (!in_array ($kwd, $ta)) $ta[] = $kwd; else $IPTC_dupekeywords[] = $kwd;
$IPTC_keywords = $ta;
} else { $IPTC_diag_nokeywords++; $IPTC_diag_errors = true; };
return false;
}; };
//.. No f*kcin IPTC ....................
return true;
};
?>


Pretty serious since here it's 9:20am (Tokyo, Tawain and Singapore time). Most offices start at 8am. It's the first day of the month and Thursday. Some projects might be on deadlines since the end of the year is near.
I don't know if they have many Japanese customers but those won't be happy at all with this history of failures in our prime time.

You mean unless one object is not self made it can not be submitted as RF.

Not really, it should be a commercial object and it should be recognizable as unique work, like the doll. Plates, spoons, forks, gavels, most clothes are also made by others, but considered generic enough to pass. Cars and cruiseships on the other hand are not so generic unless you crop a detail out. It's a thin line but experience will tell.

So according to you all the smiley objects without people are either self made or are posted before yahoo came to exist that sometime before 2000 or 2001 ?

No idea but the smiley is very recognizable and used all over the web, also Yahoo. You can't pass it as original work anyways, not even if you change some small details. It doesn't matter since obviously it's a commercial object so see below.

And how can one say that its not made in my own factory (as there is no visible logo on it)

In that case you'll have to try to convince the reviewer that the doll is made indeed in your factory and upload a property release for it, stating that you as the owner of the company owns the design.
Imagine this : the doll is sold as commercial RF and used by a competitor of the actual doll designer/factory that made it. He could sue the agency's ass off. That's why agencies try to stay on the safe side.

Lol this is IMHO really not a valid points.

They are for the reviewer since your images were rejected.

Although they are the same image, the first link I opened had a block of text hiding the man's face.

As soon as my message appeared on Google (a few hours later), they cropped the image indeed, as I anticipated.
Here is the original screenshot:
http://cjoint.com/11nv/AKEgavArBlP_hln.jpg

So, voila!

voil�   (so amature amateur!)

Just 2 cents. When I followed a link to iStock yesterday, I got on the "hacked" Jay page too. Everybody seems to assume this was bad taste and unprofessional but I never saw somebody mentioning that iStock - for a while - has really been hacked. Suppose for a moment I was Jay, I would just let them know they had some serious security issues and that I would love to help them out, for a decent fee, of course proportional to their loss of business during the hack. IS would never admit they've really been hacked, not to wake up sleeping dogs.

Thanks, I make that 73 cents RPD at present, and rising to about 96 cents from Dec 1, when the increase kicks in. How does that compare with the others, I am IS exc. so can't do my own comparisons.

Dreamstime: 1.88$ RPD Nov 2011, 1.28$ over 5 years average. 50% subs at 0.35$ so for credit sales, DT should be around 3$ as a non-exclusive. It has to be said that DT exclusives catch about 3-5x more total revenue by the search engine bias and the 50% share on a comparable port. I guess exclusivity weighs heavier on DT than on IS if you make abstraction of Vetta etc.
Horse (equus) : if you play with the idea to drop the IS crown, you need to go all the way and upload to all possible sites, not only PD.  If not, you better stick with IS and hope for better weather. 
PD will be diluted soon since everybody seems to be jumping on the bandwagon. Veer still makes a lot more as to RPD (for me).