To infinity, and beyond! Roger Ressmeyer is one of 20 candidates with the chance to win a sub-orbital space flight. All he needs is lots of votes from people like you. Roger has been passionate about going to space all is life. And wouldn’t it be great to have a professional photographer actually fly in space. With your Facebook votes you can help him fly! Vote here (
http://apps.facebook.com/spaceracecompetition/entries/147)
A little over a month ago
we wrote about the new Internet craze call Pinterest which claims to have over 10 million users. In our story we linked to a blog post by Sean Locke where he explored the copyright infringement issues. For additional information on this hot topic read posts by
Kirsten Kowalski and
Allen Murabayashi.
A few years ago when a photographer wanted to make his images available as posters or fine art prints he usually searched for a publisher with access to a network of retail outlets. Assuming the publisher thought the image had market potential he would normally would pay a one-time fee for the rights to make several thousand lithographic copies of an image and through retail contacts make the product available for customers to purchase. The Internet and Print-On-Demand (POD) technology has dramatically changed this market.
This article provides links to several stories that track the historical sales of Getty Images and may be useful in understanding sales trends of the company.
Image creator success stories in the current educational publishing environment are few and far between. The strategy one photographer used when licensing educational re-use of an image may be instructive.
Pond5, the pioneering online marketplace for stock media and creative
components, announced today that the one-millionth clip had been added
to its stock video collection, making Pond5 by far the largest and
fastest-growing collection of royalty-free video on the Web. The site
also offers millions of stock images, audio files, and other creative
components for use as raw material in media productions of all types.
iStockphoto has announced a partnership with iGoogle to provide users a new selection of beautiful and immersive full-page themes. Initially, there are more than 30 themes in the
iGoogle Themes library.
Robert Harding World Imagery
www.robertharding.com, a travel and global imagery specialist agency has acquired
Specialist Stock. Specialist Stock is a comprehensive collection of environmental and nature themed still photos and footage that is regularly licensed to international broadcasters, publications and the education sector.
Anyone asking themselves whether or not they should get into video should look at Corey Rich’s videos “
WHY” and “
HOW of WHY.” Corey is a filmmaker/photographer as well as a teacher. Yes, these videos were made to promote and sell the Nikon D4, but for the interested filmmaker they go far beyond that.
As of March 1, 2012
Imaginechina will be representing the images of
The Associated Press in the mainland China market.