Some good news

Marzipanogram · 3 Mar 2018 at 23:12

One of my old photos taken in New Mexico, made the cover of the Lonely Planet USA's Best Trips 2018 book

It's the bottom right one (zoomed and cropped).

If anyone wants their petrol pumps shooting in the UK of Englandshire, give me a call

Cosimo · 4 Mar 2018 at 07:39

Congratulations.

heman · 4 Mar 2018 at 10:34

Congratulations

Marzipanogram · 4 Mar 2018 at 11:32

Cosimo said:
Congratulations.

heman said:
Congratulations

Thank you

Amp34 · 14 Mar 2018 at 01:11

Congrats.

Out of interest did you enter it into a competition or did they pay you for it?

Marzipanogram · 14 Mar 2018 at 10:52

Amp34 said:
Congrats.

Out of interest did you enter it into a competition or did they pay you for it?

Thank you. They paid me

Amp34 · 15 Mar 2018 at 00:26

Good to hear! I always wondered if they paid or just used competitions to awuire images for their stuff (the industry in general, not just LP).

D.P. · 15 Mar 2018 at 08:55

Amp34 said:
Good to hear! I always wondered if they paid or just used competitions to awuire images for their stuff (the industry in general, not just LP).

In general they just look at stock photo sites. Way cheaper and easier than competitions, and they can get some fantastic pictures for a few dollars. For front cover art they might go macro-stock and pay a few hundred.

mrbazmondo · 15 Mar 2018 at 10:18

Its good they're actually paying people for their work.
I've heard of people that went on holiday to find billboards advertising stuff with a picture of their family on it taken from their Instagram account.

Marzipanogram · 15 Mar 2018 at 13:22

Modesty prevents me from mentioning they also used a York Minster photo in one of their magazines this month.
So I won't

When I was reading the magazine, I thought I recognised the photo. But thought it couldn't be mine, as I'd have cloned out all the people

Mark_D · 28 Mar 2018 at 16:05

That's fantastic! How did you not know that they'd used the York photo? Was it on a stock site?

Marzipanogram · 28 Mar 2018 at 18:23

Mark_D said:
That's fantastic! How did you not know that they'd used the York photo? Was it on a stock site?

Thank you

I ~~download~~ acquire travel magazines to get possible inspiration for future trips (that I'll probably never make). I saw my photo just by chance.
Yes, it was on a stock site.