March 2010
Issue 03/10
“Building Community among Image Professionals”
117 South Saint Asaph St., Alexandria, VA 22314
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NEWS FROM THE HEAD OFFICE
Cathy D-P Sachs, Executive Director
NATIONAL
Of course I want you ALL to come to Boston for our Reinvention Weekend! It is going to be an amazing weekend, as I have told you in recent ASPP communications. What I wanted to stress here are a few main points:
- We are really trying to make this Weekend a very well-rounded event with a great combination of researchers/editors, as well as agencies, as well as photographers. There really is something for everyone in the program
- The speaker line up is fantastic
- Don’t forget that one-day registration is an option
- We have slightly changed the emphasis of our opening session on Friday, to bring more value to the presentation
- We still have a few tables left for the one-day Trade Show on Thursday 15th.
- The cut off for the hotel special room rate has been extended to April 1, and with the Boston Marathon right after our conference, hotel rooms are in short supply
All of these details can be seen at our website www.aspp.com. But to simplify matters, here are the main links:
To register for the Weekend event: http://tinyurl.com/ASPPReinvention
To register for the Trade Show: http://tinyurl.com/aspptradeshow
To register at the Hotel:
http://www.omnihotels.com/FindAHotel/BostonParkerHouse/MeetingFacilities/ASPP4.aspx
Reinvention Weekend: MORE INCENTIVES TO ATTEND
- All attendees will be eligible for a free 12 month ASPP membership (or extension of their current membership
- There will be a drawing for an ADBASE regional subscription (worth $695) at the second session on Friday. (But you have to be present to win)
- THIS JUST IN! ImagePASSPORT, LLC is launching their official product at the Trade Show, and will be having a drawing for free software at the evening reception on Thursday. (See below under Industry News for details)
(BTW: Some of you have expressed an interest in sharing a room at the hotel. If you wish to do that, please be in touch with Greg – gregaspp@comcast.net – and we will see what we can do.)
See you there!
WEBSITE
If you haven’t been to our website recently, you may not realize that this is a place where you can review latest industry and ASPP news, as well as be briefed on the happenings at the local chapter level. There is a lot going on! So please bookmark this URL, and go back often to see what is happening.
COPYRIGHT AND GOOGLE NEWS
Talking of our website, there are several new items which have been posted in the last few weeks which relate to Copyright or Google. ASPP member Randy Taylor has written extensively on these subjects, and we have reprinted them on our site with his permission. For example, he attended the recent Google Book Settlement Fairness hearing in NYC on February 18th, and has given a very complete description of the scene and legal arguments in the courtroom that day.
Just posted also is an article which Randy also wrote on a recent Supreme Court ruling to do with copyright protection. Astonishingly, by a unanimous vote, the Court ruled that even images that have not been registered with the U.S. Copyright Office can be included in class action law suites that involve copyright
ASPP AND SOCIAL NETWORKING
Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and chapter blogs!
Follow events and keep up with ASPP chapter activities through a wide range of social networking sites. Check out Facebook chapter pages at ASPP NY, ASPP New England, ASPP Mid-West, ASPP West Coast Chapter, ASPP/DC South. There's also an ASPP Reinvention Weekend events page on Facebook. ASPP National reaches out through Twitter (ASPPNatl) and on LinkedIn (ASPP). Catch tweets from the NY and LA chapters at asppny and asppla. ASPP DC/South has its own LinkedIn page as well as a blog: www.asppdcsouth.com
The snow has finally melted here in the DC area, and there are signs of spring – Hooray!
Cathy D-P Sachs
Executive Director
MEMBER BENEFITS & INFO
REINVENTION Why not take a five-pronged approach to marketing yourself through ASPP? Four are free (or nearly so). These are things you can do NOW, even before finding additional secrets from the real pros at our REINVENTION Weekend.
- local chapter involvement and networking
- post your capabilities on ASPP Pros on ASPP Pros
- Submit monthly, a PR piece on your achievements, plans etc for publication (FREE) in eNews. Name recognition.
- Join ASPP's LinkdIn for a professional BLOG and other networking benefits
- Advertise in The Picture Professional
MEMBERSHIP RENEWALS. Just a quick reminder. You get an automated 45, 30 and 15 day reminder (from domain MEMBERIZE) as your membership approaches its expiration date. Yet many seem to be ignoring or forgetting these. We now have emailed directly from our ED recently to about 150 unrenewed memberships from 1 July 09 thru 31 January 2010, ; the "reup" or promise therof response has been significant, about 35% so far. Additionally, to date, the responses have all been very well received, and the refusals generally are from those who have changed careers or have retired.
FINANCIAL MEMBERSHIP ISSUES. We do NOT want to lose you, even temporarily. Our letter to each of you makes the point which I reiterate here. We recognize that times are tough, both for the economy, and in particular for our industry in the economy.
We here at National ASPP stand prepared to deal with you individually and confidentially re: your membership dues. We can do a spread payment option if that would be helpful. When times are tough is precisely when ASPP membership offers even more: networking; a helpful phonecall to or referral from a peer; our ASPP Pros section of the website (name removed as membership lapses); access to the jobs bank; loss of the quarterly magazine; loss if the increasingly informative eNews monthly; and the list goes on. Call us before you decide to lapse for pecuniary reasons, please.
Greg
Who also looks after admin side of membership
INDUSTRY NEWS IN BRIEF
(See below for more details)
Industry news in brief:
- PLUS new board member: V-P of American Association of Advertising Agencies
- PACA announces new Board
- ImagePASSPORT to launch at Reinvention Weekend
- PicScout partners with PhotoShelter
- ASMP Registration ©ounts symposium April 21st
NEWS FROM MEMBERS
This section is compiled by Greg Ogden.
Please send your news by the 30/31st of the month to gregaspp@comcast.net.
We rigidly adhere to the 31st cutoff date.
Call Greg at 703.299.0219 or email if you have a special need regarding submission of time sensitive copy.
Readers Please Note
We publish eNews monthly. Our purpose is to provide you with more depth, in a timely manner. Cutoff date for ALL information is the last day of the preceding month. We endeavor to have it electronically on your screen by the 7th of the following month. eNews is yet another very effective way you can spread your corporate/professional news. Too few now capitalize on this. Members’ business news and accomplishments go to the entire membership monthly. And it is FREE. Use it. eNews is a major member benefit, and we are making it even better for you.
Photographers
JACQUES JANGOUX
www.jungleview.com
Website Reopens, with Special Offer
My website, www.jungleview.com, is customized with PhotoShelter. Looking at my e-commerce profile, I saw that my minimum purchase price was $1,000! No wonder I wasn´t making sales. I must have inadvertently typed one zero too many when I initially set it up. I use the fotoQuote price calculator and PayPal payments.
In order to be able to sell prints, I now set my minimum purchase price to $20.00, a low price the fotoQuote calculator will never give for Rights Managed.
In view of the practices of the agencies, I now decided to experiment the new PhotoShelter Coupons feature, for the first six months of this year (2010). For any purchase above $100.00, you will get a 15% discount. Coupon Code: JJ2010JUN30 (valid until June 30, 2010)
JULIEN MCROBERTS
www.julienmcroberts.com
McRoberts Selected for Cuba Venture
Julien McRoberts selected by Santa Fe Photographic Workshops for Cuba photography venture, April 2010.
Editorial photographer, Julien McRoberts of Santa Fe, New Mexico has been invited through the Santa Fe Photographic Workshops as part of small elite group of photographers to travel to Cuba this spring and partner with Cuban photographers in Havana. Julien has traveled to various countries photographingn the world's cultures and is known for her evocative photograpphy which captures a sense of place and array of relationhships across many cultures.
This is the first time that the Santa Fe Photographic Workshops has conducted an American photographic cultural exchange and is the first step toward an exciting new photographic relationship with future hopes of the Cuban embargo being lifted. To view Julien's imagery go to: www.julienmcroberts.com
SAXON HOLT
www.photobotanic.com
Saxon Lecturing on Aesthetics of Sustainability
Saxon Holt's new book "
The American Meadow Garden" (Timber Press) is on numerous lists of best garden books of 2009 including, NPR, USA Today, and Amazon.com, and is gaining considerable attention presenting a naturalistic and sustainable alternative to lawn.
With the release of the book Saxon is making appearances around the country lecturing on "The Aesthetics of Sustainability". He believes it is the media's responsibility, and photographers in particular, to present trusted and authentic images of what sustainability looks like so that gardeners have valid examples to inspire them.
Agencies (Member name in parenthesis)
AGE FOTOSTOCK (SUSAN JONES, JENNIFER PAUL, MARCI GERSHEL, KEVIN NOEL)
www.agefotostock.com
N-Photos Joins the THP Community
age fotostock has announced the incorporation of the Stock Photography agency N-Photos, based in Zagreb, to the THP community. N-Photos has also signed an agreement for the distribution of age fotostock's collections easyFotostock, Pixtal, and age fotostock, and is currently searching for additional content to offer clients in their market.
N-Photos is a young company, founded in 2009, which has fully implemented the THP Photo Services technology to their website. At the start of 2010, the agency incorporated age fotostock's Rights Managed, Royalty Free and Low Budget Royalty Free collections to its portfolio, and is multiplying its business opportunities given by the THP, with a portfolio of high-quality international collections. N-Photos' website is currently offered in English, but will soon be available in Croatian as well, thanks to the THP's ability to administer multi-linguistic websites.
N-Photos has 1.3 million images available on their website and will have access to over 11 million images from nearly 400 providers, should they decide to set up distribution agreements with the image providers directly.
N-Photos was created in 2009 in Zagreb, Croatia, as a new agency for the former Yugoslavia market, aimed at serving the imagery needs of creative agencies and publishing houses in Croatia, Slovenia, Serbia, Bosnia, Macedonia, Montenegro and Kosovo with an ample offer and efficient service.
ALASKA STOCK IMAGES (JEFF SCHULTZ)
www.alaskastock.com
Alaska Stock Now Has Canadian Representation
Alaska Stock Images now Represented by Canadian Neighbor. Alaska's leading photo stock agency, Alaska Stock Images, announces a strategic distribution partnership with Canadian photo agency, maXx images. Through this partnership, maXx customers will now have access to approximately 15,000 images from Alaska Stock's collection including content from Alaska, Antarctica, and Canada.
"We continue to search for collections that are exceptional and unique," said Dave Maquignaz, President of maXx images. "And by adding Alaska Stock Images, we've gained a truly special collection. Our clients will no doubt benefit from this premium visual content."
ARCAID (LYNNE BRYANT)
www.arcaid.co.uk
Brasilia Architecture and Design
April 22nd marks the 50th anniversary of the inauguration of Brasilia, the capital of Brasil. Click here
ART RESOURCE (TED FEDER)
www.artresource.com
Musee Du Quai Branley
Please click to see
highlights from the MUSEE DU QUAI BRANLY Art Resource is pleased to highlight its collection of images from the MUSEE DU QUAI BRANLY, Paris. More than 5,000 artifact images as well as 650,000 photographs of the former collection of the Musée de l'Homme, ranging from the earliest photographic processes to the modern ones, are currently available from the museum.
The MUSEE DU QUAI BRANLY features indigenous art and artifacts from the cultures and civilizations of Africa, Asia, Oceania and the Americas. From Gabonese Fang initiation masks to Aboriginal dream paintings, from Siberian shaman costumes to photographs of expeditions undertaken throughout the world by illustrious anthropologists among whom Claude Levi-Strauss, the depth and breadth of the collection of the BRANLY is why the museum is considered to be the center of reference for the inappropriately defined "primitive" arts.
BRIDGEMAN ART LIBRARY (ED WHITLEY)
www.bridgemanart.com
Tiepolo Frescoes
Tiepolo's Masterpiece. Bridgeman is delighted to announce that we have obtained the most comprehensive collection of images of the
frescoes from Villa Valmarana ai Nani. This extensive villa in Italy's Veneto region is a Unesco World Heritage Site consisting of three buildings in an 18th century park: the Owner's Residence (Palazzina), which the Valmarana family still calls home, the Guest House (Foresteria) and the Stables (Scuderia).
The frescoes, based on Roman mythology, were commissioned in 1757 by Giustino Valmarana and painted by Giambattista Tiepolo, one of the greatest and most prolific artists of the period, and his son, Giandomenico. It is universally considered the highest expression of 18th century painting and it is one of the best examples of Giambattista Tiepolo's genius.
CUSTOM MEDICAL STOCK PHOTOS (MIKE FISHER)
mfisher@cmsp.com
Electron Microscopy
Have you ever done a search on"electron microscopy"? See More images Click Here
DANITA DELIMONT STOCK PHOTOGRAPHY (DANITA DELIMONT)
www.danitadelimont.com
Danita is now updating their blog with new content announcements. New images are being added to the site every week and if you follow them on Twitter or Facebook you will be kept in the loop automatically. For those that don't have those accounts, they will be sending out a monthly update of the notable new content available. This month they have added new images from Connie Bransilver, David Wall, Anthony Asael, Bill Jaynes Gallery, Joanna Wells, and fellow ASPP member Dennis Brack.
GREEN STOCK MEDIA (MIKE KAHN)
www.greenstockmedia.com
See you in Boston?!
SEE YOU IN BOSTON?! Green Stock Media President and Founder, Mike Kahn, will be attending the ASPP Conference and plans to exhibit at the Trade Show on April 15th. Contact us if you would like to set up a meeting or just stop by to introduce yourself. We look forward to connecting with you at the event!
NEW CONTRIBUTORS: JERRY & MARCY MONKMAN
We are also excited to share that Jerry and Marcy Monkman are new Green Stock Media contributors. They are ASPP members and Jerry will be speaking at the ASPP Conference. You can view their images of mountains, forests, and coastlines of New England and beyond, including a significant number of model released outdoor adventure and travel photos here:
http://stock-photo.greenstockmedia.com/c/green-stock-media/gallery/G0000O65AhrtoD1E/P0000JctQvbNNpIM
NATURE PICTURE LIBRARY (RACHELLE MACAPAGAL)
www.naturepl.com
Andy Rouse: Ice and Snow
Andy Rouse is one of Britain's most successful and high profile wildlife and nature photographers. He has won many photographic awards and his work is currently on display in several bespoke UK exhibitions. We are delighted to announce that his latest and best work is now available through Nature Picture Library.
Andy is equally at home shooting British garden birds, penguins in the Antarctic, or polar bears in the Svalbard wilderness. Click here to see a showcase of his recent work in the UK, plus highlights from polar regions and other extremely cold locations. More than 1500 of Andy's images are now available from Nature Picture Library, including many iconic images of large mammals taken in much warmer climes, plus great coverage of Britain's wildlife.
We have a copy of Andy's book Living Landscapes, to be won by the first person to name the 6 species of deer photographed by Andy Rouse that appear on the NPL website.
For further information about Andy's material or about the Nature Picture Library collection, please email or call us.
ROBERT HARDING WORLD IMAGERY (ROBERT HARDING)
www.robertharding.com
Increased Web Traffic Seen
Robert Harding World Imagery sees website changes key to web traffic increase. Robert Harding World Imagery, the travel photography specialist has forged partnerships with many specialist collections to add a wider, more diverse offering to its already established world image collection.
National Geographic, Tao, Godong and Last Refuge are just some of the numerous collections being added to the website to increase the total offering of travel related imagery. In line with the addition of over 250,000 images the company has re-launched the website making it easier and faster for clients to search, organise and download their image selections.
Fantastic new website features such as the Lightbox Tools allow customers to rearrange their selections quickly and easily with a simple drag and drop function and the new BIG IMAGES option for displaying search results and lightboxes help picture researchers see a full screen of preview size images showing the amazing quality found on the Robert Harding website.
“The policy these days from the principal distributors of stock seems to be more is better and while we have always preferred to adopt a quality rather than quantity approach we have found that by carefully selecting our partners we have been able to add quantity without compromising the quality we are synonymous with”... Says Fraser Hall, Senior Content Editor.
Over the next 12 months Robert Harding will continue to add more niche collections that complement its world imagery offering and would welcome enquiries from both individual photographers and established libraries to contact the company with view to representation on the www.robertharding.com website and/or through its channel of international distribution partners.
STOCKSHOP LLC (MAGGIE HUNT)
www.stockshop.com
"Sweet" Images & Discount
StockShop Wants to Share the Love with You!
We love our photographers and their terrific images! We want you to fall in love with them, too! Now through the end of the month, enter keyword "Sweet" at checkout and
receive a 20% discount. Here are some features that help you get the most out of
StockShop!
- Sneak Peek: Preview our latest images before they go "live" on the site.
- Passionate About Photography: Outstanding images (and a bit of humor) six days a week delivered to your inbox or viewable as an RSS feed.
- Free Research: Customized lightboxes and rapid response. Just let us know what you need!
THE IMAGE WORKS (MARK ANTMAN)
www.theimageworks.com
WPA and Two Other Collections Featured
The Works Progress Administration. Created by order of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1935, The Works Progress Administration was the largest New Deal agency, employing millions to carry out public works projects, and arts, drama, media and literacy projects.The WPA provided medical care, food, clothing, and housing until ended by congress in 1943. View a gallery of the WPA
TOPFOTO (ALAN SMITH)
marketing@topfoto.co.uk
Dunkirk: UK, FR, GE, USA, Aus, & RU photographers
Dunkirk and the fall of France. 70 years ago at 05.30 on 10 May 1940 Hitler launched a massive attack against Holland, Belgium, Luxembourg and France.
Britain and France had a defence pact and the British Expeditionary Force and the French Army were driven back to the coast by the strength and speed
of the German tanks. With Holland and Belgium occupied there seemed no escape possible.
Then came the miracle of Dunkirk, when the Royal Navy and the armada of small boats lifted 338,000 soldiers back to the shores of England.
In Winston Churchill's own words: "Our Army and 120,000 French troops were indeed rescued by the British Navy from Dunkirk but only with the loss of
their cannon, vehicles and modern equipment. This loss inevitably took some weeks to repair, and in the first two of those weeks the battle in France
has been lost."
Our outstanding photographs are sourced from France, Germany, Britain, the USA, Austria and Russia.
Click here for Dunkirk
ZUMA PRESS (SCOTT MCKIERNAN)
www.zumapress.com
Other (Member name in parenthesis)
NEAT PRODUCTION (ELLEN HERBERT)
www.neatproduction.com
Haiti Support Project
Want to make sure you know about a project I am working on with my company. We are producing a Headshots project to raise funds for Haiti via Partners In Health - standwithhaiti.org. This is our release. Our initial idea has blossomed and grown in the last week and was very successful successful.
We have already had sign ups and the donations go straight to Partners in Health!
Ellen is the co-President of ASPP West Chapter (Los Angeles)
PHOTOSOURCE (ROHN ENGH)
www.photosource.com
A New Marketing Paradigm?
In the marketing field, I stumbled on an email in January (last month) that led to a website where a photobuyer, full figure on plain background, was announcing that her publishing company was embarking on a publishing venture of three new book topics in April: wildflowers, children’s pets, and surfing. The deadline to submit was February 15th. She promised that payment for pictures was far above the usual microstock payment and in line with standard rates.
This new approach to finding photos puts the burden on someone else and saves her time and, of course, money. The selection of photos will be probably by an editorial committee through in-house light boxes. Look for other small house publishers to improve the system.
Want to read more? http://www.photosource.com/psn-article/heretoday.html. (if you are a subscriber)
INDUSTRY NEWS
ASPP makes a concerted effort to inform our membership of the good works and opportunities offered by our sister organizations.
PLUS
The Picture Licensing Universal System announced that new to their board is the Vice President of the American Association of Advertising Agencies, Harold S. Geller. Moreover, the AAAA has indicated that it will start to incorporate the PLUS standards into Ad-ID, which is the digital asset management system used by agencies to manage tv commercials, images and other content. For more information go to www.useplus.org
PACA
The Picture Agency Council of America has elected a new board for 2010-2012. Robert Henson of Blend Images will be the new President in May, with other board officials including Nancy Carrizales, Dave Herbig, Alan Bailey, Larry Minden and Megan Murphy. For more information go to www.pacaoffice.org
ImagePASSPORT, LLC
This new software product will be launched at the Trade Show at the ASPP Reinvention Weekend. ImagePASSPORT JavaScript software reinvents Image File and Metadata Quality Control. Its automated processing, set to your image file specifications, adjusts all incoming files into your standard. Its Metadata Spreadsheet
processing scrubs, adjusts, corrects and reformats your data in the workflow to any standard (e.g. Photo Agency data for a Distributor). Demonstrations will be available on 4/15-16. Bring your image files!
A drawing for FREE copies of ImagePASPORT and ImageVISA PRO (image processing automation for Photographers) will be held at the Reinvention Weekend Reception on the evening of April 15th. For more information, please visit: www.imagepassport.com/ASPP1
PICSCOUT/PHOTOSHELTER
PicScout and PhotoShelter announced a partnership which will automatically include PhotoShelter photographers’ images in the PicScout ImageIRC™ (index, registry and connection platform). To begin the program, the PicScout ImageIRC will be populated with 8 million publicly available and priced PhotoShelter images, complete with identification and ownership information, for immediate licensing.
For more information go to www.picscout.com or www.photoshelter.com
ASMP
The American Society of Media Photographers is holding an important symposium entitled Copyright and the New Economy: Issues & Trends Facing Visual Artists on Wednesday, April 21st, 2010 at The TimesCenter in New York as part of ASMP's Registration Counts initiative. It's free to attend, but space is limited. For more information go to http://asmp.org/news/current-news.html
ADVERTISERS
Support our faithful advertisers, with hot links as shown. Consider joining them. These 55 individuals and companies advertised in The Picture Professional, our quarterly professional journal, in the last 4 issues, Issues 2008.4 through 2009.3
COMPETITIONS
Artoteque.com: Call for Entries
Submission is ongoing, having just started for this year. All entries go through a selection process. The competition is judged solely by visuals submitted on-line as Jpeg [.JPG] attachment. Numbers of entries: 6 - 12 works / image files submitted on-line to: submit@artoteque.com. Once selection screening has been completed, entrants will be asked for an entry fee of $80.00. Visuals remain up on line for a year. More details are at http://artoteque.com, tho' you may have to root around to find photographic images.
UPCOMING DATES
- FotoFest 2010
March 12 – April 25, 2010
Houston TX
www.fotofest.org
- SPE National Conference
March 4 – 7, 2010
Philadelphia PA
www.spenational.org
- Exhibit: Princess Grace of Monaco
London's Victoria and Albert Museum
Opens April 7, 2010
www.TopFoto.co.uk (has more info)
- ASPP Bi-annual Education Conference
"Reinvention Weekend"
April 15-18, 2010
Boston, MA
www.aspp.com
- ASMP Copyright Week
New York, NY
April 19 – 23
http://asmp.org/content/registration-counts
- Picturehouse (Germany)
Hamburg, DE
April 29, 2010
www.picturehouse-events.de
- BAPLA Picture Buyers Fair
London, UK
May 19-20
- HOW Design Conference
June 6-9, 2010
Denver, CO
http://www.howconference.com/GeneralMenu/
- CEPIC Congress
June 9 – 12, 2010
Dublin, Ireland
http://www.cepic.org/
- PACA International Conference
New York, NY
Oct 15 – 17
www.pacaoffice.org