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Funny story. Great punch line. But wow! You have Post Offices! Here they decided in 2008 to close down all Post Offices. It took them 10 years till November 2018, but most had been closed by 2011. wim

Now how to take a photo of that. And of phone queue. 2,979 images for phone queue on Alamy. Almost all of a line of people with their phone. Some really good. But if this problem resonates so strongly with all you Brits, it must be a good subject. Hmm maybe not. Very few searches for %phone%queue% and none for %queue%phone%. Negative stuff just doesn't sell as well as positive. Otoh maybe it's just the wrong search phrase. wim

Only if they are uploaded via the Archival route. So yes all agencies using this will be exempt. But all individual contributors only when they also use Archival. And they will only be exempt because Archival is not being vetted in any way. The rest will be banned because of copyright not because of AI quality or true/fake problems. wim

Germany Magazine - print, digital and electronic - Mid low $$ Distributor. Adelaide Botanic Garden Palm House restored old Victorian greenhouse from 1876. 12 Distributors so far this month. Lowest 2.32 Highest 45.76 gross. wim edit: probably interesting for a German magazine because the design was by German architect Gustav Runge. It was prefabricated by J.F.Hoper in Bremen, Germany and erected in Adelaide in 1876 by the second director Dr Richard Moritz Schomburgk, as a conservatory for tropical plants and palms. The design is a replica of a conservatory built for A.W.Rothermund at Oberneuland near Bremen, which was demolished in 1933. Of which only Gustav Runge was in my keywords. Not German design or any of the other things that are in my description. Taken in 2006, this was the first time it was licensed. Maybe the fault of my keywords. Maybe because there were not many images on line initially, but now there are 76 for Adelaide Botanic Garden Palm House, 47 of which are of this glass house. But maybe the description is searchable at the distributor's website?

PU. low $$ From Berlin with love. Shopping for chocolate at a Lindner shop in the Alexa Shopping Mall on Alexanderplatz. wim

Ultimate? Foundation? Editorial? What is the default search setting from the front page for clients that have no cookies? wim

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Right. As long as you have your Latin sorted out. 😁 wim

Yes been there and you're right: peanuts! I have 34 Helsinki/Finland images on line. Of which 16 have been licensed 30 times in total. 12 direct; 18 via a distributor. lowest direct: 0.18 lowest distributor: 2.14 highest direct: 60.00 highest distributor: 90.45 I can still recommend Helsinki though. 😁 wim

Well spotted! And indeed there's a huge difference. wim

This topic reminds me that I still have to take photos of my mangled work glove and shirt. My almost absent hair is no risk anymore. However my glove got caught in my small drill press by a wad of long aluminium/aluminum chips. Again yikes! wim

If the 100 views actually is accurate we either have lost those clients that used to view more pages, or most clients have lost the will or patience to look any further than that one page. A third (remote) possibility: Every visit to a results page is counted, even the ones that leave the page without looking at the results or waiting for the page to load. And as pages can take a fair while to load nowadays since the new collections were introduced, some visitors may not have the patience to wait for it at all. wim

No. You have to add all variants yourself. If you're only concerned about spelling, setting your spellchecker to International English (maybe called American English were you live) will do the trick. However there are many words that are really different. Lorry/truck bonnet/hood and just yesterday here we had bushfire; wild fire or forest fire. A search for American UK English here on the forum could keep you occupied for hours. My go to links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_American_terms_not_widely_used_in_the_United_Kingdom https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_British_terms_not_widely_used_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_words_having_different_meanings_in_American_and_British_English https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_and_British_English_spelling_differences Words that could be confusing and embarrassing in the UK & US Plus the Merriam-Webster; Oxford and Cambridge dictionaries. wim

Mine is indeed a deep link. wim

Not a whole lot of searches for bush fire. Indeed quite a bit more for bushfire. I have one image with fire and Australia as keywords, and I did not have bushfire nor bush fire as keywords. You'll see some more fire keywords when you do a search for %Australia%fire% and %fire%Australia%. Now where's that sucking eggs emoji. wim

One of the reasons Alamy initially gave us I think was higher placement in Google searches. Could be us deducting that, now I think of it. The other one was that clients were using full phrases more often. However I still seldom see that in AoA. But for your own subjects your mmv. wim

Nah.. shoot it and they will buy it! Photographers have it easy and making tons of money without ever having to learn a thing nowadays. We just never caught up with it. And then all that worthless stuff we had too learn. Had to teach even. 😂 👴 😂 wim

But I do envy them for those nice soldering stations. wim

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Holding My Soldering Iron yikes! wim

+1 for posting the full size unaltered identical file somewhere for us to see. Maybe just put a watermark across it. However this has been discussed here often and Alamy has repeatedly replied (no silence there at all) that the problem is the difference between the thumbnail and the full size image: the client must not get the wrong impression from the thumbnail or even the zoom size image. However contributors (certainly those with a good QC standing) have been able to discuss a QC decision and get it reversed. wim

Those images of Talbingo must be really good, because the 85 that are already there are not that bad. Will they ever sell? Images seldom sell because they are pretty pictures. Or even good pictures. Images sell because clients need them or want them. AoA searches for the rolling year: Talbingo: 0 Tantangara: 0 Ghost Gully: 0 Batlow: 0 Blowering: 0 These have been the searches for anything dam or containing dam in Australia in the last 13 months: macadamia tree australia storm damage australia dampier peninsula western australia macadamia nut australia rabbits damage australia damon hill australian jordan macadamia farm australia schumacher damon hill australia 1993 Aboriginal dam australia Adam Asar australia adam federici australia storm damage australia houses Adam Taggart australia damaged water supplies australia Aborigine dam australia damon hill australian schumacher damon hill australia 1994 damon hill australia australia climate damage Australian native Macadamia mining truck australia olympic dam South Australia, Frances Adamson at Buckingham Palace, the australian tennis team at the award ceremony with the trophy davis cup france 1999 2G20DAM Tinaroo, Queensland/Australia Nov 13, 2019: A danger sign beneath a dam warning of drowning hazard All except the first have been single searches. The first was searched twice. You get the idea. Now bush fires must be so important that this must have been searched. And yes they have been searched black summer bush fire australia: 4x Australia bush fire: 2x bush fire australia: 1x bush fire australia road closed: 1x Australia bush fire climate change: 1x Australia Bush fires: 1x There are 6,707 images of bush fires in Australia on Alamy and some are really good. While some only depict a camper in the bush with a camp fire of course. That cannot be avoided. (We recognise a certain Toyota Coaster Motorhome here 😁) Again: you get the idea. wim edit: missed bullocks flat horse yard. These have been the searches for just bullocks: the bullocks: 1 bullocks false toad: 1 bullocks oriole: 1 Do clients actually search for anything Australian? Yes 99 pages @ 100. wim

1984 1984 1984 1990 1990 1990 1990 The very first Trabant car to be thrown away after the fall of the Berlin Wall in now formerly East Berlin. wim

Splendor in the grass! wim

Shutting the camera off while files are being written? wim