This morning I woke up to a strange and slightly baffling email from a chap called Rob. He was emailing me to congratulate me on my photo being used by the Guardian/Observer newspaper and asked if it was the first sale I had made through Alamy. Alamy is one of two photo libraries I have pictures with, the other being Getty. I update Getty regularly when they request licenses for images (through Flickr) but had pretty much forgotten about Alamy, which I discovered as a result of my photojournalism course last year.
After replying to Rob's email to say I knew nothing about the picture being used, he sent me a link to the article. The photo is of my mum and Theo on holiday in Wales last year and has been seen before on this blog in a couple of guises (sorry about that!) Alamy will of course eventually send me me payment for its use, though I don't anticipate it being too much, but it just goes to show that if you put yourself out there, you never know what surprising rewards will come your way...
That's a lovely photo, well done, it's a big achievement! The photo really does portray the unconditional love and bond between grandmother anc grandchild - love it!
ReplyDeleteMuch love, lauryn from http://funfairsandfairydust.blogspot.co.uk xxx
How wonderful! Congratulations :-)
ReplyDeleteCongratulations!
ReplyDeleteThat's amazing! Congratulations.
ReplyDeleteAwesome news! Theo has grown up so much too!
ReplyDeleteCongratulations Clare. That is awesome news. And I have to tell you, that is easily my favourite photo. And you have taken MANY that I love.
ReplyDeletewell done you. great photo too x
ReplyDeleteThank you everyone! :-)
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