The popular Strictly Business conference series from the American Society of Media Photographers returns in January 2011.

Visual Connections—the freshly rebranded Picturehouse Marketing US—is hosting the 2010 Image Expo at the Metropolitan Pavilion in New York on October 13.

Photographers should be alert for textbook publisher requests for new image licenses to extend print runs on books that have already been printed without obtaining such licenses. In many cases, image owners may be entitled to high retroactive usage fees for copies already printed and distributed, as well as a fee for the new books the publisher intends to produce.

Recently on Linkedin Jacintha van Beveren observed that “The old photography business model is gone,” observed and asked if the road to survival and future success is through “creativity and flexibility or stubborn protection.” Neither.

Phrases like “it’s not all doom and gloom” pop up often, but those who offer such encouraging analysis are typically in the top tier of the profession. While their experience is certainly real and laudable if not amazing, is it representative enough to be touted as a roadmap to a successful career? Common sense, economics, mathematics and every available source of statistical information says no.

Alamy is celebrating an upcoming milestone with a contest. The company has also joined a growing list of photo distributors to offer iPad apps.

In the fall of 2009, I estimated the size of the worldwide market for still images and illustrations at about $1.45 billion. In the last 12 months, overall sales have probably remained about the same, with a few companies seeing sales growth, mostly from taking market share from those that have gone out of business.