Harry Harrison

They've been messing about with the 'Relevant' sort order, there is another thread on this though the title of the thread is a touch ambiguous: https://discussion.alamy.com/topic/17600-image-order-in-portfolio-randomly-re-organised/page/4/#comment-360435 It looks to me like you have just found another unwelcome consequence of this new algorithm, it is also the default which doesn't help matters. Nothing much back from Alamy about this. Something I've just noticed, if I do a search for 'Audlem cheshire' I get 313 images, so just into 4 pages of results. If I change the sort order to 'Newest' I imagine that I get something closer to what you are expecting, still 313 images. If I select 'Oldest' as the sort order then suddenly I'm only getting 267 images.

Phew, thanks, I was beginning to think that I couldn't see the wood for the, er, tiny conifers.

Is this just a pre-emptive attack on Alamy I wonder, another site has plenty of close-ups of the Bild logo under Editorial but not in Creative. Seems reasonable.

If they really have done that then surely they should have A. Told us and B. Updated AIM because you can opt out of Personal Use but not Presentation sales so if they are now one and the same how does that work?.

Well quite. I almost think I shouldn’t mention it as all pictures had to be removed and all mentions on here expunged. Let’s just say that they were small, they hung up, and they were shaped like t-r-e-e-s! Unless I just dreamt it all up.

It's before my time but wasn't there was an issue with a certain air freshener company on here that became rather toxic.

Your camera is absolutely fine for Alamy, 24MP APS-C, a very good choice. Unless you are desperate to replace it anyway you might be better asking contributors@alamy.com if they know why your images didn't pass QC, it won't be the camera and if it is then someone has made a mistake. It does happen.

There's this on the home page but I don't now how the buyer opts for that pricing: https://www.alamy.com/licenses-and-pricing/

I did a quick search and see that you use a 'crop sensor' APS-C Canon 90D, so that might be important in terms of the focal lengths of lenses that people recommend. I only do macro for 35mm film copying but from that I know that the Sigma 70mm f2.8 ART and the 105mm f2.8 ART are pretty much the highest performing lenses at 1:1 without going to exotic process/duplication lenses, not that you need the flat field and sharpness right into the corners of the frame for insects. Sigma certainly know how to make good lenses though.

Thanks, I told him that I thought it would be fine but wasn't sure. I imagine that he just wants to record plants, flowers, leaves, seedheads etc. for later identification.

Thanks Allan, I shall pass that information on next time I see him.

Just hi-jacking this thread slightly but I was talking to a botanist the other day and he wondered if this camera would be good at photographing flowers etc., he was often finding his Sony A6300 with 35mm Macro was larger than he wanted to carry around on walks. Would it be good for this also?

I don't know, but it might be pushing it to use one for your first 3 submissions, they will be paying closer attention to those. Make sure they are at standard ISO, preferably in bright conditions at a 'normal' aperture and perfectly sharp. Play safe.

Another rather bizarre post on the Alamy Editorial Twitter feed promoting the same account. It appears to be quoting from an interview but still no link. https://twitter.com/Alamy_Editorial/status/1777592377781244409

I've never had much reason to use this but an Alamy Editorial Twitter post intrigued me (sorry Elon): https://twitter.com/Alamy_Editorial/status/1777229996844630457 I was expecting it to link to a new Blog post but there was nothing but the image which I downloaded and put into this search, I probably could have just pasted in the link instead. It took just a couple of seconds to bring up 508 'visually similar' images with this one at number 1! Pretty impressive out of 350 million or so. Didn't help me find what the post was referring to though. Supplementary question - does this type of search show up in AoA?