Flickr + Getty Images Want my photos.
Flickr and Getty got something going. Flickr is a photo sharing site, Getty a photo selling site.
Getty is a center for photographers to upload photos to, then anybody with money can buy them for commercial or private use.
So A few years ago Getty teamed up with Flickr. Getty has the right to request certain Flickr photographer's work to upload it to Getty and sell the photos. They tagged me some time ago, and have though the year requested over 4 times to have my photos sold.
Currently they want 41 of my photos.
But I can't sell them. At least not the ones with people in them because I would need to get model releases signed by the people in them. And that would lead to trouble, since...well...since i live on a colony. But I see their point, there are very very few photos of Hutterites for sale for commercial use. And People need them.
This is a sample of the photos they requested.
Here are the rest of the photos
I navigated to Getty's website. And found that anyone can apply to have their photos looked at and selected. I never went though that process. hmm
I feel like this is a little disconcerting. They keep insisting they want my photos, but i can't just hand it to them without permission. And no, i'm not going to get it.
It's a cool opportunity though. But i can't go around faking model releases.
Should I even consider pursuing it?
What with winter?
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_QRqG74Ziw&w=1000&h=700] I haven't seen winter described more perfectly from a photographer.
How does a photographer without a studio deal with winter?
Nobody wants an outdoor photo-shoot, they freeze.
The lack of snow renders everything brown.
No simplistic white snow scenes, love em!
I can recycle photos from the summer.
But i don't like not shooting.
My studio shots suck.
Got no energy.
No ideas.
Write!
The Mink
When looking at this image, it strikes me how powerful it becomes with that small animal. It would otherwise be but a ordinary hole in the river ice, but the animal gives it another name. It turns the hole into a entrance for the Mink's hunting grounds. Being a semi-aquatic animal, it is very keen on 'fishing' for food. And if nothing else, the Mink gives the image some scale.
Thinking about photography.
Often during the day (at work) I think about photography. There are just so many thing that inspire a thought, a look or a photo idea. This blog is about that process. Thinking, planning and most of all, creating photographs.Stay with me and explore that process.