The photos on the display site are not listed for sale, just the ones
on the <http://www.millettephotomedia.com>
site.
A lot of people when posting or at some time indicate that
people are
free to use the photos, so in many cases permission was
inadvertently
given. But, on the display site, with the iris photos,
almost all of
them are photos posted to iris-photos. Very few,
actually almost none,
are from Reggie Millette or from anywhere else.
Yet if you go to his
for sale list, there are hundreds of his photos
of iris. The question
then is , why? Why not post web sized photos of
iris from ones he
took, why just "borowed" photos from other
people.
Also , he has hundreds of photos of iris "borowed " from
iris-photos,
but he never posted a photo in return on iris-photos. He
has them,
could have shared with others, given back, just not taking
as he has.
So he is taking generously, but not returning. So basically
using the
list for his own purposes, but not giving anything back. Not
what I
would consider good group courtesy.
Even on giving
permission to use photos, in a general sense, it is not
the same thing
as giving permission to building a photo site based
entirely (almost
100%) of others photos. For this particular type of
usage, it should
be considered common courtesy to tell people what
their photos are
being used for, and direct them to site to see how
they are be
ing
used, particularly when you are using a large number of
someone's
pictures.
Margie, my experience with giving him pictures is quite
different. I
generously sent a large number of high end photos and
gave him
permission to use these. He would keep comming back to me and
asking
for more. I complied for awhile, but eventually stopped and
asked
"What's in it for me" I don't know if he used photos I sent, but
he
didn't send me a copy of the book and wasn't very appreciative of
the
work. I say work. I'm on dial up, and at times it is very
unreliable.
So raw camera photos are too big to send, so they have to
be preped,
inculding resizing. After preping , they are still large,
and it takes
some time to send over a dial up connection. They have to
be sent one
at a time, ans sometimes resent, as they don't go through.
So about 30
minutes or better of my time per photo. These requests
were comming
during summer when I was working in my garden. Here in my
northern
garden I loose a lot of plants, and the ones that survive,
just don't
put out increases as well. So I need to work hard and long
to get
garden to pay for itself and equipment. So my time is valuable,
and
there seemed to be no end of his requests, or respect of the time
he
was asking of me. Actually it was more of a demand, as he was upset
that I stopped sending photos.
So, he was angry at m
e for
not continuing to send photos on demand. And
then you may have seen
his comment about my not being co-operative with
him. That was my
thanks.
Chuck Chapman
Re: ADMIN: Milette's "borrowing"
photos
Posted by: "Margie Valenzuela"
IrisLady@comcast.net
iris85737
Thu
Feb 12, 2009 9:40 pm (PST)
John, allow me to address
2 issues here:
1.) I met Mr. Millette on tour at the 2006 AIS
Convention in Oregon. He
was very friendly and very polite. He told me
he was writing a book,
and that he may later ask to use some of my
photos in his book. He told
me (and in the presence of my husband too)
that he would give me credit
for my photos used in that book, and also
in return, he would send me a
copy of that book once it was
completed.
Later he did indeed ask for high resolution (TIFF)
photos of six to
seven (maybe eight) arilbreds. I gave him my
permission to use those
arilbred pics and sent him the high resolution
photos. Those arilbred
photos were used in his book, and he did indeed
send me his book
thanking me for my support. I was pleased and honored
he kept his word
by sending me the iris book. However, I was NOT given
credit anywhere
in
that book (as he said he would) for any of my
photos which were
used. That was disappointing to
me.
..........................................
2.)
John, those 2 photos of Carl and Sissy, and Cerf-volant indeed are
mine, and I was "surprised" to see that they are being offered for
sale!! ** Mr. Millette never mentioned or asked me for my permission
to
place my photos online so he could SELL them.
As I look
through a couple of the iris links at his "photos for sale"
website -
- I find even more of my photos there. On the first IRIS page
of this
website I see my photos of Alpine View, and April of Paris. On
the B's
page I now see my photo of Brazen Beauty. I can only speculate
that
there are more of my photos on that website that I did not give my
permission to sell.
About a week or 10 days ago he asked me for
a couple of my Louisiana
Iris photos in High Resolution (and so I sent
them). I (mistakenly)
assumed he was going to write another Iris book
and needed Louisiana
photos for it. (I say this because he had
mentioned to me back in 2006
that he may write a second Iris Book, and
if so, that he may contact me
again). Now, I am uncertain what he
plans to use those 2 photos for.
~ Margie
Valenzuela
(margiempv, Margie Piorkowski Valenzuela)
Oro
Valley, AZ.
