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Hi Paulette, Thank you for those important points, kind comments and your wishes, I will be starting to re-annotate all of my images tomorrow bearing all I have learned in mind, with hopefully more success. Cheers Alan

One of two Standard licences (PU?) just reported of Romesh from Sunday's London Marathon. His proud mum perhaps?

Since this started and I don't see anyone else has answered, but there are plenty of other comments and conjecture about other issues and questions. This fee is for the defense against the claim, not to pay a claim, not a lost case, not a determination by the courts. Alamy and all the artists involved have not been convicted of anything. The removal of all images with the metadata "Bild" is, I presume, to prevent further claims and would be done, no matter what the image or contents or marking as commercial or Editorial. Everything related that has been removed, as a precaution.

Times online 23rd Travel Wojciech Strozyk Gdansk, Poland. 9th August, 2018. Latvian low cost airline airBaltic Bombardier Q400 NextGen PDH8RM kaprik GSA - European Global Navigation Satellite Systems Agency MGPRX2 NadyZima_klgd Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, Victory square, Kaliningrad, Russia, TC4Y58 Angelo Chiariello the old town of castellabate, on cilento coast, italy 2GKT8Y0 Reda and Co il Cannito B&B Paestum, Cilento, Campania, Italy, 2G062TK Jenna Hinchliffe On the beach in Agadir, Morocco at Sunset PMXFXC Mark Passmore The parade from Disney characters past the Cinderella Castle at Disney World in Orlando, 2PMCH3B Business Alena Kravchenko Wells-next-the-sea, UK Staff serving fish and chips inside French's fish and chip shop TR8341 SOPA Images British broadcaster and former politician, Nigel Paul Farage 2GK1037 Scotland Kenny Williamson traffic jam on the M8 Motorway and Kingston Bridge roads in Glasgow city centre, CXM54N Thomas Cockrem Accra, Ghana JAFF78 ? No credits Mary, Queen of Scots portrait - a few of these News Dusan Petkovic Mother taking kindergarten child in kindergarten. 2H90CFE Stephen Parker Children returning home from school in Falmouth, UK : B24M5G Tayfun Salci London, 18th Apr, 2024. Former sub postmaster LEE CASTLETON 2X1XAN1 vincent abbey The Hung, Drawn & Quartered Pub, PW4EYC ? No credits Mark Waugh Tottenham Court Rd, London The court pub G0T4B7 Mirrorpix Strangeways Prison Riot April 1990. EPF9KK and B4R5G5 Guy Bell London, Apr, 2024. Palestinians and supporters march to call the UK to Stop Arming Israel, 2X0R35D Vuk Valcic London, 13th Apr, 2024. Pro-Israel counter-protesters in Aldwych. 2X0RJ6A Vuk Valcic London, 13th Apr, 2024. Protesters carry a large Palestinian flag on Victoria Embankment. 2X0RJ99 Times2 rudi1976 Kotor, Montenegro. Beautiful romantic old town of Kotor during sunset. HXJ19H Scott Wilson Scenic panorama view of the historic town of Perast at Bay of Kotor P5K4WJ ? No credits Douglas Carr Stylophone as played by Rolf Harris and made by Dubrec. FA4NP2 Register Don Morley Cricket - Derek Underwood : G4K38X

The world has gotten more complicated, but I can't help feeling that there's more to all this than meets the eye (so to speak). It might not be just about perceived infringement. However, chances are we'll never know the whole story.

It was a distributor sale. The distributor takes their cut and then Alamy gets 60% of what is left. Then we get a wee bit. Sad but sometimes worth it for a distributor who pays a lot. Paulette

https://www.traveler.es/articulos/fiesta-flors-i-violes-primavera-palafrugell Image ID: H96HDE Contributor: Jan Wlodarczyk / Alamy Stock Photo

https://www.traveler.es/articulos/arouca-oporto-geoparque-rutas-que-hacer Image ID: 2BRN45D Contributor: Luis Fonseca / Alamy Stock Photo Image ID: 2DW958H Contributor: downunder / Alamy Stock Photo Image ID: 2WHF208 Contributor: Zoonar GmbH / Alamy Stock Photo Photographer: Zoonar/homydesign Image ID: 2D89BA2 Contributor: Sérgio Nogueira / Alamy Stock Photo

It does seem bizarre that a newspaper publisher wants to restrict the rights around publishing photography.

I'm learning Spanish with Duo Lingo and on Fridays I'm in a 1 1/2 hour Zoom Spanish Conversation group. One woman in the group is a native Spanish speaker (from Puerto Rico). She will correct us if we use Google Translate to try to say something we are unsure of on our own. Even with my rudimentary Spanish, I can sometimes spot the Google translate goofs. Duo Lingo will sometimes explain the different idioms used in different Spanish speaking countries. It's tricky. Sometimes when I watch a British show with my husband I find myself "translating" for him even though we Americans and Brits supposedly speak the same language. I bet whatever it would cost to hire British and American and Australians who are fluent in French go through and correct the AI translations would be made up for in sales. It makes me realize why the time-consuming specialized vocabulary used by a certain competitor with macro and microstock offerings makes sense since specifying what is meant by, e.g. "tip" would mean that it is translated properly. Seeing pages of rubbish "tips" when you want to get photos of a pen tip would be annoying. Presumably you'd search for "nib" or if you want someone leaving a tip, "money on a table" which is why it's important for us to use a variety of keywords when we upload images. But having those keywords translated into words that make no sense and having a ton of misspelled or nonsense words is very disappointing to hear. I don't think I've ever had a sale to France but I've had sales to Germany and I'm guessing that having an office there is why those translations are correct. I also have sales to the UK and over the years have done my best to use British as well as American English in my keywords. I still forget things though or learn new ways of saying things from this forum.

U.S. book use for mid $$. A Covid 19 alert on my phone, back during lockdown.

What OS and Browser are you using? Mark

LOL Bring back the smilies!

The only Sony zoom lens that I have is the G 24-105mm f/4 and it is nice and sharp. Until I got it a bit over a year ago, I was only using primes, many non-Sonys manually, the Nikons and Zuiko (Olympus) with an adapter. The 24-105 is a great focal length for travel, though it does make for a heavier mirrorless setup. It's a full frame lens so it gives me a pretty wide through portrait/medium telephoto setup - and with my files being so large, even a pseudo telephoto if I want to crop into a photo. I got a B+W closeup lens to put on the end of it to make for a pseudo macro lens too as I'm unlikely to take my 90mm macro lens traveling and again, since macro isn't usually a big need when traveling, being able to get a little closer is enough. I mistyped above - it's the G, not the G Master which is f/2.8 and costs about $700 more. I paid $1,170 for it which was plenty. I won a grant in 2022 and was required to spend all the money that year, so that covered the cost of the lens as well as an Eizo monitor and some other equipment. Otherwise it would probably have taken a couple of years to earn back the cost. But of all my tech purchases that year, it's the one I've gotten the most out of.

Can someone tell me what '60% of net' shown as the Alamy commission on the Account Balance tab means? I've had a couple of these lately. The balance calculated from these is less than I would expect. How is the running balance calculated in these cases?

Sony lists their product as "Lenses". Allan🤔

Ah no wonder I could not find what I thought was a zoom lens. I agree with you that Sony zoom lenses are not the best. I have a "good" Sony 18-135mm f3.5-5.6 zoom lens which I use for a lot of the work I put up on Alamy. Also I now have an E4/PZ 10-20 G lens which gives a better quality image than the previous 10-18 lens I had. I do not use the power zoom feature in favour of using the manual zoom. Each lens is on its' own 6500 body. Allan

Don't mention it Sung. You are in a for a big surprise going from LR6 to the current version. There have been massive changes since V6, all positive in my opinion: huge improvements in masking and Denoise to name a couple. I use Photoshop much less than I used to do because LR has advanced so much. You should also find it runs much faster for importing, generating previews and converting raw images on your new Mac.

Just a reminder that the sun does shine occasionally, although not much in these parts of late. Taken during a heatwave in Venice. Low $$.

Indeed most of the lenses that I use are fixed focal length, so we go from a 12 mm Rokinon, via a Sony 20mm, to a Pentax 28mm then a Pentax 35mm, followed by an Olympus 50mm, then a Pentax 75-150, and finally a Sigma 100-300 f4 - which I rarely use, too heavy. All, except the 20 are used manual focus with the a6500. Only the Rokinon and Sony are native Sony fit, the remainder are used with adapters. I find that the aged full frame fixed focal length film camera lenses provide better results than any Sony zoom that I have tried. Wouldn't do for a live news or action photographer, but suits me just fine.

Low $ web ed:

She sold again. Clearly I should take more goat pictures. High $$, TV, worldwide, within body of show.

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