Well you aren't going to use the wife's university web page are you??? Probably is under copyright don't ya think :-)
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Subject: RE: Free-almost free pictures?
From: lookaround360@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Fri, August 07, 2009 4:33 pm
To: List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students
<photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
D.
There was the same - ruin the market - argument against royalty free
CD's with ten different rubber duckies and generic calendar scenics back
in the 80's . I went to some micro stock pages I found in Shutter Bug
and they didn't function well and had rotten pictures. The purpose-made
illustrations are uniformly tacky. Might as well go to Google Images.
I still haven't found a suitable office cubical picture! The search
engines are all kind of psycho. I entered " ethnic wall murals" in
Corbis or Getty one time and got my wife's university web page!
AZ
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> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: RE: Free-almost free pictures?
> From: David Dyer-Bennet <dd-b@xxxxxxxx>
> Date: Fri, August 07, 2009 1:59 pm
> To: List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students
> <photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> On Fri, August 7, 2009 12:33, mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > I disagree that stock can't keep up though. In fact unless you are
> > looking at something particularly unique its probably already out there.
> > I recently read a story on strobist about a guy, Danish I think, had a
> > studio of 10 or so employees and tens if not hundreds of thousands of
> > dollars in equipment to sell images at a dollar a piece. The guy doesn't
> > seem to realize he will be the victim of his own success. He is
> > destroying the market which is paying his bills and fostering a mindset
> > that images have little or no value and that includes his.
> Why do you think he'll do his own business model in? So far as I can see,
> his business model is selling a high-quality product at current
> micro-stock prices. He's built it up at current prices; he's not
> dependent on old-style high stock prices (which most of my web clients
> laugh at and reject out of hand), he should be excellently positioned to
> thrive in the current market.
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