Comments on: The State of the Stock Photography Business

By: Bruce

Bruce — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 13:10:45 +0000

I like the way you write! Nice blog.

By: DSLRBLOG - Photography Business Blog - Starting and Running a Business as a Professional Photographer » Blog Archive » Zooomr To Take On Stock Photography Giants?

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 23:08:01 +0000

[...] is a titbit from Thomas Hawk’s blog One of the things we want to do at Zooomr is to help the pro/am photographer monetize their [...]

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 20:44:00 +0000

great idea! can't wait!

chris
chrislagman.com/blog

By: g

Mon, 03 Jul 2006 15:13:00 +0000

Jef,

Is there any way to tell if your photos on flickr have been printed by someone else?

Under that pay structure maybe family members would fight over the right to manage and post photos so they could get a commission

By: webmonkey

webmonkey — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 14:33:00 +0000

Working in the hosting industry as a product manager I’ve been approached by both fotolia and iStockPhoto to offer their services to our customers. The idea is great, but based on their prices it’s hard to realize any benefit for my company. Is there room for a more traditional pricing model to pick up the slack? We serve almost a quarter of a million customers. Surely there’s a way to share the wealth with all parties?

By: Jef Poskanzer

Jef Poskanzer — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 09:59:00 +0000

One of my top wishlist items for flickr is profit sharing on the print-making. Zooomr should get there first!

By: Gary Crabbe

Gary Crabbe — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 01:20:00 +0000

Thomas:

I’ve been been formulating ideas about exactly this, especially over the last few months. Any site that is going to go heads on with not only Getty, Corbis, or Jupiter, but also Google and Yahoo, and better be poised to address very serious concerns and approaches from the outset. I’m happy to make myself available as a consultant. I constantly advocate on my own weblog and in other pro/am forums regarding new and emerging photographers, and their understanding of industry aspects that have a direct bearing on how one determines the ‘value’ of their work, be it a CC, RF, or RM License. File that comment under the banner of “If you don’t value your own work, why should anyone else?”

I wrote an article based on the above, that can be seen at:
http://tinyurl.com/lrqkb

PS: This reply may come at a bad time to post, since I just blogged about the “Greenberg” issue earlier tonight. Doh!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 28 Jun 2006 21:40:00 +0000

This Sounds like a great idea... i am very interested to see how it plays out. I have been reading your blog, and think you are right on. I am also curious to see how the revenue generation works with the creative commons license.

Michael

flickr:michaelhilton
michael.hilton@yahoo