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The leading stock photo agency alternative for rights managed images, StockPhotoRequest.com, is now under new ownership. Clay M. Garrett, CEO, says the company is positioned for growth by meeting the evolving needs of both professional photographers and photo buyers with their zero commissions business model. The leading stock photo agency alternative, StockPhotoRequest.com, announced today it is under new ownership, and positioned to grow during the economic downturn. The privately held business is now led by Clay M. Garrett, CEO, a publishing entrepreneur, photographer, and zoologist. The online service is the destination for photo buyers and professional photographers to access one another without going through a traditional stock agency. The service is free for photo buyers, and photographers can get started with a complimentary two week trial before paying an annual subscription fee to continue taking advantage of the service. StockPhotoRequest.com charges no commissions. A video tour is available online: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbAu1EvnG4s

“In this economic downturn, content producers are looking for innovative ways to meet the demand for fresh, unique, and high-quality images. Moreover, photographers are looking for new ways to market their work without paying agency commissions or making the switch to royalty free distribution. With our service, buyers have a stable of freelance photographers poised to fulfill highly specific image requests, and even shoot to specifications. And we’re rights managed forever, which means you’re not going to see your exclusive cover photo fronting someone’s website,” says Garrett. “Nor is this micro-stock, where you wade through thousands of inferior images. At StockPhotoRequest.com, we’re committed to quality.”

Press Release

Dreamstime.com , one of the world's premier stock photography agencies, is pleased to introduce its newest search engine advancements to deliver the picture perfect every time.

Complimenting the Dreamstime.com DreamFinder ^TM [an unlimited, multi-tiered, in-depth search that is most unique to the stock agencies market featuring refined and extended search options as they pertain to keywords, price, content, model released files, resolution, photos/illustrations, color/monochrome, orientation and more], Dreamstime's custom search engine has become second-to-none in "relevancy."  Designed specifically to pinpoint definitive photos of relevance, Dreamstime's "flag" system (which allows its members the opportunity to flag and report any photo that appears to be misplaced or mis-keyed) has also enabled the over 1.3 million users impeccable quality assurance while in turn affording the photographers the ability to learn to key their images with the most appropriate word(s) to target the specific needs of the photo-buyer.

Following the successful first year of the New York Photo Awards, the New York Photo Festival 2009 (NYPH’09) is proud to announce the kickoff of the New York Photo Awards 2009. In its inaugural year, the New York Photo Awards surpassed all expectations in terms of the quality, reach and number of submissions that were received (over 3,500 submissions and 15,000 images were received from 60+ countries worldwide).

The New York Photo Awards Ceremony, a gala affair held at the world-renowned St. Ann’s Warehouse on the evening of May 16th, at the height of the New York Photo Festival 2008, was attended by more than 650 photographers and industry professionals, and reflected the passion and dedication of the international photographic community who came together to honor the year’s New York Photo Awards winners.

In short, either we all just really look like huge douchebags while gaming or a photographer and a video game controller in the same room spells artistic apocalypse. Im leaning towards the latter.

To make matters worse, stock photo sites like Corbis, Shutterstock and Istockphoto have the fucking balls to sell these images for hundreds of dollars each. So journey with me now into this devastated world of spiked hair, extreme zoom-ins and exceedingly forced overexcitability. You’ll wish the tried and true “fat, unkempt, socially inept nerd” gamer stereotype remained cemented as standard forever.

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Shutterstock's library of premium stock images continues its explosive growth while maintaining the highest quality standards in the online stock photo marketplace

NEW YORK, Feb. 26 /PRNewswire/ -- Shutterstock, the world's largest subscription-based online stock photo agency, just reached another milestone as it added the 6 millionth image to its rapidly growing library of premium royalty-free stock images. In less than four months, Shutterstock has added over one million images, reinforcing its status as the fastest growing site for high quality, royalty-free images.

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"We continue to experience tremendous growth in both the size of our library and in the volume of images that our subscribers download," said Jon Oringer, founder and CEO of Shutterstock. "Thanks to more than 144,000 submitters who contribute to our library, our customers can depend on us for a steady source of fresh, high quality content."

British Journal of Photography Roundtable
BJP has gathered a panel of industry experts to discuss the future of copyright in the UK at a time when technology has rendered the Copyright Act 1988 obsolete.

The future of copyright in the UK: How a change in copyright law could affect photographers?

How to deal with user-generated content?

Are collective societies the solution to copyright infringement?

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The Seattle, Washington based garden stock photo library, Garden Photo World, has signed a non-exclusive contract with leading international stock photo distributor, Photolibrary of the Photolibrary Group for worldwide distribution of a number of its key image collections.

Garden Photo World specializes in images of gardens, flowers and plants, including many from North America with a large and growing collection from the Pacific Northwest.

"While we continue to provide our images, and assignment photography and writing services directly to our clients, we are excited to have these collections represented and distributed by the prestigious Photolibrary with its broad, international reach," said Georgianna Lane, Co-founder and Director of Garden Photo World.

Photolibrary's North America Operations Director, Dan Russelman, noted, "Garden Photo World's strong botanical and horticultural collection, with its emphasis on North American species, enhances Photolibrary's already extensive coverage of garden and flower subjects."

If you prefer keywording your own images, or your budget doesn't stretch to a full professional service, Keedup has the answer to make your images stand out from the rest, at a special low price. Shine is a new service aimed at adding the crucial final touches to raw keywords. In the case of Alamy, that means selecting and separating keywords into essential, main and comprehensive lists. Getting those just right can make all the difference to searchability and sales. We'll also correct glaring errors and add important words that seem to be missed. www.keedup.com

We've never had much faith in political types over here at Photo Spy. It seems to us that what our politicians say and what they actually do are all too often entirely different things. Some might call this cynicism, we call it accurate.

Taking photographs in public spaces is how most editorial photographs are created. These photographs feed the appetite of the press and our media friends for topical imagery. All to often such imagery must, by the very nature of the events that unfold before our very eyes, include the odd photograph of a policeman or, perhaps, a photography of an odd policeman.

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Recently we had a conversation with a large and very informed buyer. We wanted to pass along these nuggets of wisdom and knowledge (these are shorthand notes to help you the reader):

Looking for more diversity with university and middle school students. For school kids, they need different types of schools…urban, public, etc and avoid trendy clothes and looks if they take off uniforms.

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