OK, sorted I think. The bottom few tiny and pale lines ha fallen off the pag in the transfer fro pdf to jpg. So having retrieved them, it should be ok.....
Users.....!!!!!

None for me then.

Though I did bump into one of my pics which seems to have been stolen since I have not sold it.....

Grrrrrrrr.............decent watermark required.......grrrrrrr.......

I have just sent up some pics with Easy Release duly completed. Accepted by all agencies but IS are asking for
'Standard Model Release' to be added in the footer.
Any ideas what they mean?
Sigh........

Didn't the last one blame reduce profits on increased Royalty Payments??? You couldn't make it up. Except they did.    Expect them now to work on 'reducing Royalty Payments' to redress this supposed issue....!

Nice in theory....but my most 'liked' and also my most original pics don't get accepted for Marketplace - and even those accepted take MONTHS to wander through the system. Given how much it costs now, this is a crazy waste of non-selling time.



PS I've been in this line long enough to know the quality is ok!

DT down 85% on the same period last year.
 

Something is being tinkered with. My July was truly awful. Like years back. Every day a weekend. I was SERIOUSLY worried. I thought - feared - this would be the new normal.

But August has returned to ticking over. Not great, but certainly not collapsed like last month.

No idea if that provides any comfort. Clearly they are rotating ports or.... something......

But the wheel did turn. Fortunately.

Seems DP are now partnering with Graphicstock!
May as well just give everything for free! Please tell people in the Partner scheme that they are doing this. I think I only know this because I am opted out (and left just a few images there to keep the option for the future open), and they wrote asking permission to include me.
Graphicstock, for those who don't know, is where people pay a fee (theory 100$, but often on offer) to download as much content as they want FOR A YEAR FOR NO ADDITIONAL CHARGE. I have no idea what DP intends to pass on to photogs. But it can't be much more than giving away you whole stock library for nothing. Especially if you are on other sites.
Obviously, I am NOT joining.
PLEASE CORRECT ME IF I AM WRONG but I don't think I am.

"stop upgrading your equipment, sell the whole sebang and shoot with mob.  everything else is profit!!!"
If only that was true. Depends where you live. Here fixed costs and taxes have to be paid even if I don't sell a bean...!

I once joined a company with a massive warehouse of old, unsellable stock.  Still with some value on the balance sheet though written down. Took ages to convince top management that there was no value here - just extra costs storing and auditing and space filled up which could be better used..... And that was face to face and literally walking them round them the space!
But how you get this message to shareholders about such intangible assets as our files is a serious problem.....

Till somebody realizes this, new files, no matter how good, just get washed away in the flood. On the other hand, if they only accept truly professional stuff requiring full frame cameras, studios, 38 different reflectors etc we are still up the creek as they WILL still sell for pennies.

Can't win this game.

Gotta laugh...or cry! 

I have nothing to say, but it seems others do, so here is a special thread.