The royalties are rolling in
Many months ago we were contacted by a French publishing house claiming interest in one of our pictures for use on a Slovene language textbook they were putting out. We exchanged a few emails, found out they were serious but pauvre, and agreed to allow use of the photo in exchange for the enormous fame we’d get out of having a picture on the cover of a language textbook. Here’s what we got in the mail yesterday:
The picture is a remarkably badly executed panoramic view of Ljubljana’s famed Prešeren Square that I made in May of 2005 (relatively small ‘large’ version is on Flickr here).
Apart from the card of thanks from Maurice Chevalier, my favorite thing about this is the fact that Magda and Adam have been immortalized on the cover of a French-Slovene textbook, for which the market is no doubt burgeoning. Check it out:
While you wait for Flickr to make you famous, why not read this excellent series of articles about how to position yourself to get more than a free book and some remerciements out of your photographs?
“Right now, every day, people with the power to pluck you out of obscurity are cruising Flickr. They are looking at photographs and at photographers.”
By the way, as neither of us can claim to speak French, and our prowess with Slovene is legend, these language-learning materials are up for grabs. In the unlikely event that our vast readership includes a Francophone who is dying to learn Slovene, drop us a comment or email promising a good home to the book and CD, and we’ll happily put them in the mail to vous.
Fantastic. I love it. I really do.
Comment by Jane — Friday 22 June 07 @ 12.55 MDT+2.00
You’re willing to give it away? Seriously? Won’t Adam want to see it when he grows up, so that he can point to it and tell his own children “That’s me in that pram”?
Comment by simon — Friday 22 June 07 @ 17.08 MDT+2.00
That’s so weird! The same day you post this, I get contacted asking for permission to use three of my photos I took at the U.N. last October in an online news story. Granted, it’s not quite the same, since it seems to be a collaborative news site that uses a lot of photos from Flickr, but still…freaky.
Not as cool as you, but then who is?
Comment by Erik R. — Friday 22 June 07 @ 20.33 MDT+2.00
Faut que tu le gardes, mon pote. On ne sait jamais ce que vaudra un jour, un truc comme.
Comment by SquamLoon — Saturday 23 June 07 @ 14.25 MDT+2.00
Hey! I thought you said any HTML would work! And it looked all purple and correctly formatted in preview mode…
Comment by SquamLoon — Saturday 23 June 07 @ 14.27 MDT+2.00
What was the tag?
Comment by sgazzetti — Saturday 23 June 07 @ 14.35 MDT+2.00
LESSTHANSIGNfont color=”purple”GREATERTHANSIGN blahblahblah LESSTHANSIGN/fontGREATERTHANSIGN
Comment by SquamLoon — Tuesday 26 June 07 @ 21.19 MDT+2.00
Oh, and the c-cedille was ALT+0231. I’ll not try an ALT+130 on the e in cedille. Oh okay I will: cédille.
Comment by SquamLoon — Tuesday 26 June 07 @ 21.21 MDT+2.00
I have good luck with decimal, and with this resource. Your experience is not by any means unique — I have noticed some code voodoo taking place when oceans are involved.
ç
was arrived at with a & and a # and 231 and a ;
ç with a terminal ; also ought to yield the character you’re after:
ç
Yup. BUT not as originally entered, only following an edit to re-enter the same code that the preview ’said’ would result in a cedilla.
I do realize that this is not the point at all, and the fact that the preview does not always reflect the end result defeats the point of having a preview in the first place. Damn it.
Comment by sgazzetti — Tuesday 26 June 07 @ 21.33 MDT+2.00
If you really don’t want this book I’d be happy to have it!
Comment by camille — Friday 29 June 07 @ 18.35 MDT+2.00
Camille, if you are sincere and can put it to good use, we’ll send it over. Email your shipping address to sgazzetti and then the @ sign followed by gmail and a dot and a com.
Comment by sgazzetti — Friday 29 June 07 @ 20.30 MDT+2.00
Dammit, you snooze you lose – I saw this post too late and Camille beat me to it. Would’ve been a perfect “hint hint” gift for my French boyfriend though…
Comment by Poulette — Monday 2 July 07 @ 17.59 MDT+2.00
Well, we’re still waiting to hear from Camille with some contact info that would make this actually possible, Poulette. You’re first runner-up, so if we don’t hear back from Camille, it’s yours.
Comment by sgazzetti — Monday 2 July 07 @ 21.08 MDT+2.00
Great – a await her reaction with bated breath…
Comment by Poulette — Tuesday 3 July 07 @ 17.12 MDT+2.00