Re: Crediting the Gardener/Photo Releases

**"James Allison" j*@aquapic.com**

Margaret Lauterbach noted:
"I think publishers shrink from uncredited locations, as well they 
should."

In my experience I have had difficulty in getting many of the 
publishers I deal with to carry the photo credit information I 
supplied them with e.g. locations, owners, designers. This is 
particularly the case with magazines.

In cases where I have supplied a batch of photos and stipulated that 
certain ones can only be used where the garden owner is credited, the 
publisher has often chosen to use only those photos without the 
credit requirement.

There are still some magazines carrying photos without ANY credits, 
not even the photographer, and I refuse to supply them.

On the point of gaining garden owners' permission for photo use, one 
successful photographer I spoke to passed on his own approach. He 
sent a sheet of thumbs of the photos he had taken to the owner, 
offering to supply free large size prints of any of the shots they 
liked, and at the same time noting that he hoped they would not 
object to him making the photos available for publication. In most 
cases the gardeners were happy to accept the free prints, and raised 
no objections.
Email from James Allison 

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