Marvin McAbee Posted January 8, 2015 Share Posted January 8, 2015 Just picked up a 2015 Calendar from my local insurance agent. They give these out for free to customers each year, and I discovered in the credits that four of the monthly pictures were from Alamy. The name of the calendar is Scenes of Southeast USA. After looking through it guess I need get busy as that is me Southeast. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Mitchell Posted January 8, 2015 Share Posted January 8, 2015 Interesting. Calendars seem to be a dying a slow death, though. I guess people now either make their own calendars through POD websites or hang their iPads, etc. on the wall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bryan Posted January 8, 2015 Share Posted January 8, 2015 I have licensed rather weird images for calendar purposes, industrial sites, law courts and the like. There's no accounting for taste, and impossible to predict what they want - but I'm not complaining. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dyn Llun Posted January 9, 2015 Share Posted January 9, 2015 About twenty years ago or more, a b&w photographic paper manufacturer used my images on their calendar and offered - in lieu of monetary payment - free paper for a number of years. It was very good paper that I was using at the time so I agreed. It coincided with a big upturn in my print sales, projects and exhibitions so I ended up with far more in value that reproduction fees would have given me. Not sure they realised at the time quite how much I might use but to be fair to them, they stuck to their agreement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graham Morley Posted January 10, 2015 Share Posted January 10, 2015 About 15 to 20 years ago a good percentage of my photo licences were for calendar usage, mainly from direct licensing of 5x4 and 6x6 transparencies to the calendar manufacturers. Most of those companies have now disappeared. I still licence for calendar usage, both directly and through Alamy, but the fees obtained now are considerably less. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Betty LaRue Posted January 10, 2015 Share Posted January 10, 2015 I just bought a hang on the wall calendar yesterday. Easier to check than turning on phone and pulling up appointments. I still put things in my phone to check when I'm out and need to know. Betty Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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