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Who needs one? (yes I know about nofollow) In google try: alamy site:newvisiontours.com wim edit: regular google yields 276 results for Alamy. google images only 20.

Absolutely. Because of silting the river Guadalquivir is not navigable anymore, except for a couple of tourist boats with shallow draft, but in the 15th and 16th Century this was a serious waterway. From Wikipedia: Unlike other harbours, reaching the port of Seville required sailing about 80 kilometres (50 mi) up the River Guadalquivir, which had been heavily defended with fortifications since the Middle Ages. This made Seville the best defended port to receive the riches transported from the Americas. A 'golden age of development' commenced in Seville, due to its being the only port awarded the royal monopoly for trade with the growing Spanish colonies in the Americas and the influx of riches from them. Since only sailing ships leaving from and returning to the inland port of Seville could engage in trade with the Spanish Americas, merchants from Europe and other trade centres needed to go to Seville to acquire New World trade goods. The city's population grew to more than a hundred thousand people. Working on the altarpiece of the Seville Cathedral took place between 1481 and 1565. In the years that the gold was sloshing against the skirting boards (as we're saying here). The Cathedral itself btw was the largest in the world when they finished building it. It still is the fourth biggest, depending on who you believe: in the church there's a panel explaining the various ways of looking at the size, like height, volume, length, some of which are in favor of their Catedral. 😁 wim

Thank you! I'll change it back. Initially it said in, but later on I changed it into of. I think the keywords still have both. Yep that's how it goes. Initially I thought of the cherries in DC: mwah? Now I can cry if I see this or this one, but I've never been up there. You may like this one (with sound!). Or even this one. (Been up there when it was still possible to open a window.) Also many places in Amsterdam, Haarlem and especially Rotterdam, where I have never been, because it's tourist stuff. Or because it's just not right: there's scaffolding up in one corner; there's too many people; too few people; too late; too early; the weather is too good; not good enough, you know how it goes. Can we learn from that? Sure! I should! 😂 Do clients search for biggest? Not so much. Largest a bit more. Best? Yes: George Best and Pete Best. And: father knows best. Now I have to know: In the world? Of the world? Well yes: All the money in the world and: tallest jesus status in the world; largest mounatins in the world. OK those two are mean. The largest mountains is a simple mistake and there is a search for the largest mountain just under that. It yields 3,917 images of mountains with 59 actually from the Himalayas. 14,691 of Everest though, but none with those keywords. And the S and the E are very close on a keyboard. But no second search for tall Jesuses. Let's go a little deeper into the rabbit hole: Of the world: Ooh lots: end of the world, news of the world, map of the world, war of the worlds, end of the world sign (2x) Seems easy enough, but there are already 3,572 images to choose from here. And to top it off: Creation of the world. Sure, we know they have flash up there, so why not a nice time lapse? Hmm it seems I've crawled out of the rabbit hole by myself. (Around 120 searches for %time%lapse%.) wim

The largest altarpiece of the world in Seville Cathedral. Regular sale on a Saturday: US worldwide book or magazine inside print run 5000. Lower mid $$. wim

Hah there's dolphin (and the odd whale) watching between Holland and Newcastle too. Last time we found out there's even a ranger on board counting all sorts of animals for a couple of months each year. She was happy for people (with or without binoculars) to keep her company and loved to talk about the different species. Out on her own up front in all sorts of weather can be quite dull if you're doing it full time. It's a kind of internship managed by one of the universities with Orcaweb I think. Lots of dolphins, but they are quite small. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWgkKwZaPHk wim

Miffy Square in Utrecht. Worldwide iQ sale Educational book mid $$ (Miffy (Dutch: Nijntje) is a small female rabbit in a series of picture books drawn and written by Dutch artist Dick Bruna. In total they have sold over 85 million copies. There are two Miffy television series; four musicals; a film and a Miffy museum. The original Dutch name, Nijntje, is a shortening of the diminutive konijntje, "little rabbit". In Bruna's hometown, Utrecht, there is a square named after Nijntje, the Nijntjepleintje or Nijntje Pleintje (lit: Little Nijntje Square, to retain the rhyme). The sculpture is by Marc Bruna, Dick Bruna's sculptor son.) wim

Dessau, Bauhaus interior: famous staircase. Worldwide magazine article - 2,500 circulation - mid $$ By Walter Gropius. (Play it again, Tom Lehrer!) wim

There's a filter for phone images though: Social and it has an icon of a phone next to it. It's under All images in the upper left hand corner. Or on the front page next to the search box. The S* word is nowhere to be seen except in the contributor name, which is given as Contributor: Wim Wiskerke / Stockimo / Alamy Stock Photo. (Fictional: I don't have S* images. - Yet.) wim

However no images of felting or weaving in your portfolio? Ah there's someone knitting! Not a whole lot of searches for felting I must admit (%felting%=0), but lots for weaving, woven and knitting. Even the odd search for washing up cloth. wim

Have a greenie! +a 🍺 (For us it was election day✏️. Choice anxiety: 37 parties taking part. - Results here.) wim

Cape Fear Memorial Bridge high$$ Worldwide Educational - Upgrade. Upgrade? Again not complaining. 😁 wim

Worldwide Editorial website mid $ Kamppi Center, Urho Kekkonens gata, Helsinki. Interior. + that Bloomberg screen (from 2 weeks ago) again, now for low $$$ - worldwide educational unlimited. I'm not complaining about that mid $. 😎 wim

Welkom Guido! We're a friendly bunch here and quite helpful at times. What will sell first? No idea. I noticed that you're on AGE as well; you probably already do know there's a way to block AGE from distributing your images through Alamy. Having your images on Alamy through AGE probably will give you a fair idea already about what sells over here and how often. A very helpful tool is here (you have to be logged in). A couple of days ago I have explained it here. (It's a bit Jip en Janneke for obvious reasons. But a quick search on this forum for All of Alamy or AoA for short, will give a wealth of info from all sorts of people. wim

If it didn't pay off, he/she/they wouldn't put that much effort into it. wim

Now come on, only because they're Russian? 😂 wim

Ahh a l'œuf and love thing (in tennis). wim

Here you go. A different product though as far as I can see. wim edit: many different products in fact.

https://web.archive.org/web/*/alamy.com This one (no images) is as endearing as a small puppy/kitten: https://web.archive.org/web/20000620150820/http://www.alamy.com/rahead.asp wim

Android Lawn Statue park (aka Android Sculpture Garden) on Google Campus in Mountain View, Ca. Newspaper Italy 25,000 Inside $$ (but distro) wim

Haha! You wanna laugh some more? 17,484 images on Alamy for Null as the Contributor name. wim

Here are some of those character level searches that worked: b_ll finds ball, bell, bill, boll and bull. (But also bbll, bcll, bdll, bfll etc.) b[a-c]d finds bad, bbd, and bcd. b[ae]ll finds ball and bell, but not bill, boll or bull. b[^ae]ll finds bill, boll and bull, but not ball or bell. If you want to find more (they may however not be allowed online): search for ANSI-92 Query Mode. My guess is that what is used here is not ANSI-92 (SQL Server compatibility mode) though, but something similar. (Don't take my word for it: I just know what it's called; not how it works. Being the difference between information and knowledge 😂) And here is one of those snags from the past: (about using the word Infinity as a keyword) > This is what member services had to say: > "We have checked this with our technical team and when you use the word Infinity with a capital ‘I’ our database identifies this as a code and so any keywords after infinity will not be saved. As a workaround you can avoid the capital “I” and use ‘infinity’ instead." wim

Haha! I can think of a couple of buttons one could wear. 😂 No much use outside of the US I'm afraid. wim edit: Maybe I should have looked for face masks first. Who wears buttons right.

That is easy: %Ukraine%Sign% will give you all that. Somewhere on the forum there's a list of everything we found that was allowed. It was quite a bit, but mostly on the level of characters in- or excluded. That's already a lot from a security standpoint. You don't want people injecting scripts through here. You can of course do all searches you want by downloading a couple of sets and then merging those into one spreadsheet or database. I have done this in the past: to preserve a rolling year's searches for subjects I was interested in. Like dutch; holland; netherlands; amsterdam and a couple more. The outcome proved too predictable to be worthwhile. So I now just keep an eye on AoA when something spikes my interest. But it can be done and is easy. However Alamy's database is not always cooperative: when the subjects yield a large number of pages, it sometimes just refuses download. The solution is usually to wait until after office hours in the Western world. And/or to split a subject up in smaller sets. Because you're merging them afterwards anyway, this makes no difference. To find unexpected "inroads" start with Google. In the search box put something obvious in, like London is or just: UK. The result is a list with the top 10 of current searches. For an outcome where London is not the first word, type <space> London. Alamy search (for clients) works in the same way also: try the same words and see if the outcome is the same or different (and how and why). No idea about what the rolling time frame is for both. For what to shoot, I rely more on Google, but do check on AoA. wim

Edwardo Roon - 10 results 😂: https://census-records.us/last/ROON wim

Does it keep out commercials or ads from Youtube? Just saying. I think by now all browsers have some sort of tracking blocker, some a bit stricter than others. Right now I wish my phone had UBlock though. Yes there are adblockers for the browsers on my phone, but they won't work on the various apps. Although most of these operate on the same principle as the browsers. And this is understandable because all this makes money in any case it makes Apple and Samsung money, not so sure about regular Android phones without their own Playstore though. So this is why Apple doesn't want us to block all money making things on their machines, because machines are not what Apple makes its money with. It's the stuff on the machines. A bit like Polaroid used to operate: cheap cameras; expensive film. OK not at all like Polaroid then, because the machines are still expensive too 😂. (And don't overlook Samsung phones in this respect!) wim