Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/09/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I thanks everyone for the feedback. This has been an interesting learning experience. Herb >Before I submit photos to stock agencies, I always search to see what is >already available. Sometimes I think mine is much better and go ahead and >upload it. More often, I forget about uploading and go on to something that >nobody has. If you can get a good rating so your photos come up first in a >search, you have a chance; otherwise, if there are thousands of the same >subject, look for something less common. Rohn Engh advises this in his Sell >and Resell Your Photos books. Go after a market where nobody else has >thought to provide photos. That is becoming harder and harder to do!! > >Tina > >On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 2:29 PM, George Lottermoser <imagist3 at >mac.com>wrote: > > > Which brings up another interesting point: > > > > What are we doing if it's already available on line? > > > > What do we have to say visually > > that hasn't already been said publicly a thousand times > > in nearly the same way? > > or > > If we're okay with saying the same thing > > how do we say it differently? > > more humorously? > > more eloquently? > > stronger? > > more beautifully? > > more compelling? > > > > Just askin' out loud > > what I silently ask myself every day. > > > > Regards, > > George Lottermoser > > george at imagist.com > > http://www.imagist.com > > http://www.imagist.com/blog > > http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist > > > > > > > > > > > > On Sep 19, 2010, at 1:14 PM, kyle cassidy on the lug wrote: > > > > > This is one where technology wins out over the glove compartment -- > you > > don't really need a camera, you just search for "thou shalt slow down" > on > > flickr and save on film! > > > > > > The hive mind provides: > > > > > > http://www.flickr.com/photos/74799441 at N00/1865272206/ > > > > > > > > > > > > On Sep 18, 2010, at 11:57 PM, Herbert Kanner wrote: > > > > > >> I was out with my friend Steve geocaching when we encountered this > sign. > > "Wish I had my camera with me," I said, whereupon Steve opened his > glove > > compartment and handed me an ancient Canon P & S, so ancient, that it > > actually had an optical viewfinder--remember, those obsolete things that > > only strange cameras like Leicas still have. > > >> > > >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/herbk1/IMG_0001.JPG.html > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > > > >-- >Tina Manley, ASMP >www.tinamanley.com > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information -- Herbert Kanner kanner at acm.org 650-326-8204 Do not meddle in the affairs of cats, for they are subtle and will pee on your computer!