Simon

Thanks Steve - so that was in print ?

Believe it or not he's had that jumper for a year now, think he looks like quite striking in it 😉

To any business person putting all of your "eggs in one basket" is not a good idea, although I've done it myself on several occasions. I hope the people that I've dealt with at Alamy are well looked after, they've all been highly supportive of me over the last few years from the live news team. I've had a positive email from my contact, so lets see what happens. At the end of the day if you take a better picture than the other lot, then you live in hope it will sell .. Although on a weekly basis I'm still surprised on what sells vs what doesn't - the last example being my picture from yesterday, which didn't sell, I guess I'm biased based on the effort that went into getting the picture vs the quality and topicality.

Mine are completely random

Will do. I know there was a photographer from PA who was down at the same spot that I go to and he got himself and his D4 completely swamped in a wave .. it killed it there an then.

My goto shot is St Michaels Mount., but 75% of the moonrise times there's a layer of clouds in the way 😞

Hi Julie, Do you know if you can set Metadata yet in lightroom mobile ( as needed for Live news uploads) last time I looked it wasnt there in any of the Ipad apps.

thanks James., I checked the Times and the Telegraph it wasn't in there, I rarely check the Guardian. well done in the Moon by the way, we were shrouded in clouds yet again last night.

I'll be going Monday / tuesday morning, assuming I've shook this lurgi off by then 😞

Hi Phil I've looked again and you are right - it now illuminates the controls, however ( honestly ) before it was bringing up the white balance setting. at the moment it's behaving

Could be .. it does get splashed / rained on in the storm pictures

Had a last minute 3 figure sale pop up of the Pug at the 11th hour yesterday. Alamy sale volume exceeded 2018, revenue nearly made it, but taking into account sales elsewhere smashed it ! Disappointed with 2020 - 0 so far 😉

I was just having a look at views / zooms for last month ( stupidly high ratio at the moment ) and was intrigued to see 2 pages of search term "alamy" over the last month one line of which had 4 zooms. I'm intrigued as to whats going on ?

I sent in a deliberate motion blur - picture was on tripod everything in the background was razor sharp but the person was blurred. It was the only QC failure I had in a looooong time. I felt so strongly that I ran it past my main ( news ) contact at Alamy, everyone that looked at the picture agreed it should have passed and it was clear that there was no camera shake .. in the interest of getting on with life I just let it go.

Thought my Nikon D500 had died the other day, whilst out on a shoot, the back display went blank and the top LCD just showed 0.0 however it was taking pictures still. Having had a play I *think* what is happening is that the power switch is intermittently getting stuck in white balance adjustments. Several turn offs, battery out, then back on cures it, but randomly it will go back to the same. Just wondered if anyone else had experienced similar ? regards Simon