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Buy Magilla Gorilla

The Gorilla on the block, make that the auction block... The New York Times reports that Getty Images has placed itself up for sale, for the princely sum of one and a half Billion dollars. After gobbling up small agency after small agency, and taking over the control of an…
Gary Crabbe
January 21, 2008
Photo Business

Join me in Florida – NANPA 2008 conference

The North American Nature Photographers Association, (NANPA) is holding their annual conference for 2008 in San Destin, Florida from Feb. 27 - March 2nd. This year, instead of being a regular attendee at the conference, I will be co-leading the Pro's Meeting. The Pro's Meeting is a 90-minute breakout session…
Gary Crabbe
December 11, 2007
LegalPhoto BusinessPhotographers

Ethics – what would you do?

I've never taken a Photojournalism class, or any journalism class for that matter. That makes me admittedly a little fuzzy on the subject of ethics for reporters. PDN Pulse reports this week on a photographer getting fined $1,000.00 and possible jail time for refusing to hand over a bunch of…
Gary Crabbe
December 8, 2007
LegalModel ReleasePhoto BusinessStock Photography

Thanks, Mom!

Picture: Young child playing in fountain at Mission Plaza, San Luis Obispo, California Last week, PDN PULSE reported the case of a photographer who was sued by a woman he had photographed years before. In this case, when the photos were taken, the woman was actually a young girl. Fast…
Gary Crabbe
November 13, 2007
Photo BusinessStock Photography

Ripped off – like fer’ sure!

While catching up on some newsgroup reading, there was a thread in a forum populated by microstock shooters that was called, "Ripped Off". It seems this photographer had seen one of his images used in an editorial publication, but credited to the wrong photographer. His apparent assumption was that this…
Gary Crabbe
August 9, 2007
Photo BusinessStock Photography

A pot calling the kettle white

Over on a microstock newsgroup, someone posted link to an interview with a pro photographer at ASSIGNMENT ZERO. Never heard of them? A place where amateurs write "news" stories and interviews, which are then edited, published, and used on the Assignment zero web site, and the original writers happily accept…
Gary Crabbe
July 26, 2007
Photo BusinessRants and RavesSports & Recreation

Major League Bummer

Enjoy the Game, do your Job, but remember - we own your a$$. This seems to be the sentiment passed along from major league teams of the National Football League (NFL), Major League Baseball (MLB), and many other national sports organizations. And if you're a photographer, videographer, or reporter working…
Gary Crabbe
July 24, 2007
Photo BusinessStock Photography

A fine example of giving away images

About The Image reported today that UK Agency Wellcome Images, formerly Wellcome Trust Medical Photographic Library, is now offering all of it's imagery to teachers, students, researchers, and the public under a Creative Commons License. The non-commercial accredited, (sometimes non-derivative) license is a great resource, and serves as a fine…
Gary Crabbe
July 16, 2007
NewsworthyPhoto Business

No Sympathy for the Devil

Bye, Bye, OnRequest Custom Stock? Professional photographer, John Harrington, who runs the PhotoBusinessForum weblog, made a very interesting post a few days back, regarding a comment made by the head of OnRequest images. If you've been a pro stock photographer over the last few years, you likely heard about OnRequest,…
Gary Crabbe
July 16, 2007
Photo Business

More on Turning Pro

Justin Black, who originally took over my old job, and now run Galen Rowell's Mountain Light Gallery, has posted a series of questions on "Turning Pro" over at Photo.net. It has generated some very interesting discussion worth reading. I was short on time, so I just made a quick reference…
Gary Crabbe
June 6, 2007
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