Re: garden stock photos

**G* R* <g*@tiscali.co.uk>**

No wonder photographers have such a hard time making a llving.

And see an analagous issue here on cheap books:
http://transatlanticplantsman.typepad.com/transatlantic_plantsman/2008/12/price-of-everything-value-of-nothing.html

Graham

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>One of my jobs is as editor of a sustainable lifetstyle magazine in
>print and on the Web, http://www.IndianaLivingGreen.com
>
>I pull from several inexpensive stock houses...
>
>http://www.istockphoto.com
>http://www.stockxpert.com
>http://www.gimmestock.com
>http://www.fotolia.com
>
>  From these stock houses, I use all kinds of images, including
>horticulture, and yes, there are times when the photographer doesn't
>have a clue about what he or she shot and names it something
>completely incorrectly. I have received refunds for this before. Most
>images on these sites range from a couple of dollars to $10 or $15 on
>up, high res and large, perfectly suitable for the cover of a
>magazine. istockphoto is connected to Getty Images, which has very
>high-end and unusual images, which I've purchased for the magazine.
>I've also purchased from these stock houses for my PowerPoint talks,
>my newspaper columns/articles and white papers for clients.
>
>For some horticulture images, I've had success visiting university
>Web sites. For instance, all of Purdue's images regarding plant
>diseases, insects, etc., in its news bureau archive, plant and
>diagnostic lab site and at most of its educational sites (extension,
>entomology, etc.,) are copyright free. There also are images
>available at the USDA plant database Web site...not always, but some
>images are copyright free and some are free for educational purposes
>(non-commercial).
>
>We all probably know about the Netherlands Flower Bulb Information
>Center's bulb.com and bulbpix.com for anything bulb related, all
>copyright free.
>
>Many breeders, growers, marketers, etc., (Terra Nova, Walters
>Gardens, Great Garden Plants, Plants That Work, Proven Winners/Color
>Choice, Stepables,) provide images copyright free if you register at
>their sites or contact their marketing/pr people...various procedures
>for various sites.
>
>The most difficult for me to find are certain house plants or
>tropicals and plants with diseases and insects. I've bought
>houseplant images from healthyhouseplants.com...not to take anything
>away from Julie who has healthyhouseplants.com, but I think the
>Florida growers association would do well to get images posted on its
>site for us writers.
>
>jems
>
>
>>Actually, Marg's pictures are out of my price range too. When I don't have
>>my own photo of a plant/garden design for my web site, I go to
>>http://www.istockphoto.com, which is really affordable (at least at small
>>web resolution).  The trouble with istock is that you can look long and hard
>>and waste a lot of time because you tend to find lots of bad keywording and
>>mislabeling of plants because the photographer doesn't know the hort world
>>at all.
>>
>>Yvonne Cunnington
>>Web: http://www.flower-gardening-made-easy.com/
>>Blog:  http://countrygardener.blogspot.com/
>>
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>>[g*@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Shauna Dobbie
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>>The images are certainly way out of my price range.
>>
>>Shauna Dobbie, Publisher and Editor
>>Pegasus Publications Inc.
>>201C-219 Dufferin Street, Toronto ON M6K 3J1
>>phone 416-963-3434  fax 416-963-5929
>>Publishers of Ontario Gardener Living, Manitoba Gardener Living, Alberta
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