From Flash to Cash: making money from photography

Uploaded a bunch to Crestock about 18 months ago...they were all rejected. Some of the comments (which were clearly just options in a drop-down list, not someone's considered critique) were fair enough, some were just baffling. Rather than think "right, need to take better pictures then", I just looked through their samples and thought "I can't do that" and gave up.

if it makes you feel better - i've never even heard of Crestock!

interesting article:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8744817.stm

When I first heard about the Getty/Flickr tie up I went through and changed the licences on all my creative commons photos to add the non-commercial stipulation.
Which I discovered this week hasn't stopped at least one commercial organisation using an image of mine on their website.
The Dundee based Scottish daily newspaper The Courier published this article (at least on the website - no idea if it was in the actual paper) with my image at the head. They attributed the photo to me (my flickr username is the same as here) but at no point have they contacted me to ask if they can use the image in a commercial context. I think they've basically done a creative commons search for a relevant image and haven't actually bothered to see if it allows commercial usage or not.
I should really contact them about it, but if I do I don't expect anything to come out of it.

it's called a lawyer.

sorry - didn't mean to sound so flippant.
how did you find out, btw? do you usually read that paper? (online)

It cropped up in my flickr referrals in my stats.
I'm going to email them at some point, but I'm coming down with a cold right now and I'm not feeling terribly coherent.

In the early days of digital, I thought about putting together CDs of stock images and selling them to designers/businesses, cutting out the stock imagery middlemen - but then online services took off and it just seemed like too much effort for the pay.