Gary Crabbe / Enlightened Images

Well… it’s here. Getty’s Rights Ready licensing model, that is. According to a report at About the Image, Getty unvieled it’s new model with some slight modifications based on Photographer feedback. From my interpretation, it’s a step in the right direction, but even for the prices, a 10 year license is pretty lengthy. Three or [...]

Picture: Merced River flowing over rocks in Spring, Yosemite Valley, Yosemite National Park, California

I post this photo of rushing water today because I’ve been working on scans from 2003, 2004, & 2005 taken in Yosemite and the Eastern Sierra. I consider myself to hold a somewhat Buddhist outlook on life, and take to heart the [...]

Picture: Coastal fog at sunset along the rolling hills of the Lost Coast, Humboldt County, California

I just made a new scan of this image for possible use by a client, and thought this would be a good image to post today. Why? Well this last weekend I went for a family camping trip to the [...]

And in another newsworthy post: Yes, it’s true. Google wants photos of naked women. They want the fine-art nudes, the porno-nudes, and I’m sure they also want all of those freaky amateur nudes I’m told are scattered across the internet. More specifically, and of some concern, is that Google wants to have all such images [...]

Odd to come across a nature photographer who is also a hunter. Certainly not bizzare; just – unusual. But CNN reports on one such photographer who helped a country singer illegally kill a bear. Making this worse, said singer paid almost $5,000 for the tame black bear. The photographer then brought the bear to his [...]

Photo: “That’s a mighty big puppy dog you have there…” A portrait of two ladies and their pet dog on the beach, Pacific Grove, California.
Associated Press reported yesterday in their “Unusual News” category on a woman who has filed a lawsuit aginst Getty Images for selling a photo of her and her beloved pooches [...]

Picture: Idyllic Island in Heather Lake on a clear summer day, below alpine peaks, Desolation Wilderness, near South Lake Tahoe, California

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As reported by CNN and the BBC this week, Reuters News Agency has dumped nearly 1,000 images from it’s archive, all from a single photographer. Why? Seems our photojournalist did the one thing any photojournalist should never do, doctor or ‘fix’ his images. In this case, a bad job of cloning smoke clouds over a [...]

Picture: Crystal clear deep blue sparkling waters of Crater Lake, Crater Lake National Park, Oregon.

Why post this image today? Funny story, actually. My two kids (7b/4.5g)  were told to clean the kitchen counters as part of their chores. They decide, on their own, to also clean our kitchen floor. I walk in, and they have [...]

First there was RM (Rights Managed), then there was RF (Royalty Free), which (d)evolved into MS (MicroStock). Now, getting a jump ahead of what the PLUS folks are doing, About the Image reports on a press release from Getty Images announcing the upcoming new sales model, RR (Rights Ready). I’ve read the release, and admit [...]