Just working on an exciting new site about large coffee makers. Funny as I just have given up drinking coffee recently Nevertheless, if you have a big family, a great office team or are involved with running coffee hour at your local Church hall, you might be interested in a large, starting at 12 cup coffee maker with thermal carafe. I love good, honest niches! SY

Jura Scotland is a small island off the scottish cost and belongs to the so-called outer hebrides island group. It is renown for its natural beauty, its peaty whiskys and its rich wild life. Less then 200 people live on Jura, greatly outnumbered by 5500 red deer! George Orwell wrote his famous novel “1984″ here and it was on Jura in Scotland that the music group KLF burnt 1 Million of british pounds in banknotes.

Pixmac pays for uploading

Pixmac pays up to $500 per 500 images submitted!

From their site:

Pixmac is starting a unique promotion – offering all contributors an opportunity to get money for their pictures even before they’re sold.

From 1st February 2009, all contributors who upload their pictures on Pixmac will get a $500 sales guarantee for 2 years for every 500 approved pictures. If you want to get the cash immediately, you can choose the option to get $100 for every 500 approved pictures – before having had any sales. Portfolios preferred include high quality pictures with people or isolated objects on a white background. This unique opportunity lasts until 28th February 2009.

Detailed conditions

The contributor can choose from 2 options.

First

$500 sales guarantee for 2 years for every 500 pictures uploaded and approved on Pixmac. This means that in 2 years Pixmac will give you $500 even if your sales are 0.

Second

$100 for every 500 pictures uploaded and approved on Pixmac immediately after the 500th picture is approved. This will be an advance payment on the first $100 earned on those pictures. Pixmac accepts the risk of selling these pictures and in the event that no sales are made, the contributor will retain the money.

Please remember to switch-off autokeywording for the pictures!
All pictures sent for approval must be keyworded by the contributor. Pictures uploaded as part of this promotion are not eligible for free keywording.

One last thing. If you are uploading these days, the process will propably take longer time to publish your pictures on Pixmac. We are making our best, but the number of pictures uploaded is high.

What I am doing at the moment

Just updated my new lens on chartity on Squidoo, you can read it here: http://www.squidoo.com/webcharity and also started two new blogs http://microstock.today.com/ and http://prague.today.com/ I am seriously considering to devote more time to blogging and mini sites and to take a break from microstock. Something about not to put all eggs in one basket… I also need to come up with a working plan for next year, got kind of lazy lately ;-( SY

DNF-Style

© Photographer: Dnf-style | Agency: Dreamstime.com

DNF-Style.com is the web site of Frenk and Danielle Kaufmann, both photographers and both models, also I must say Danielle looks better! Or as they describe themselves: “2 photographers, two styles, one name.”

Danielle’s interest in the photography has started as an offspring of her successful career as a model, enabling her to put this experience to good use on the other site of the camera, especially when directing and encouraging the models she works with.

Frenk’s interest started in the 1980s with the photograph club of his school. He also specialized later in “dramatic expression” and uses this knowledge to direct models and to develop unusual concepts.

© Photographer: Dnf-style | Agency: Dreamstime.com

2005 they encountered each other and decided to form a partnership, both in life and in photography, under the name of DNF-Style.

The team DNF-Style has studios both in Maastricht (Netherlands) and Lanaken (Belgium) but will consider to work everywhere, provided the travel expenses have been paid, as they are equipped for both studio as location work.

Their style can be described and covers all imaginable subjects from everything and everyone, of young to old, of family to loner, of portrait to naked, from studio to event, but also: companies reportages, products, weddings and parties, interior and exterieur, etc. etc.

Apart of this they also offer workshops for photographers and models and have been specialised in translating an idea, by means of a pose and expression, to a picture. Further workshops include: basic camera, studio and make-up/ visage skills.

For more information about honest photography at reasonable prices go to http://www.dnf-style.com

© Photographer: Dnf-style | Agency: Dreamstime.com

Chasing Moments is a new web site I just discovered. Chasing Moments is a stock photography and design library serving Washington DC, Northern Virginia, Alexandria and upstate New York and Buffalo areas. You can buy images and prints on line and the photographer is also available for location shoots. Other areas cover: information about stock photography and some great video tutorials that teach you how to enhance your photos with Photoshop. Check it out

Don’t forget about FeaturePics!

Featurepics pays the highest commission for your image sales plus they are the most helpful ones when it comes to the nitty-gritty details of promoting your own images. And did I mention that you can set your own price and the type of license you want to sell? Check it out today! SY

How to contact Lucky Oliver / Bryan Zmijewski

Not everybody might have saved the different possibilities to contact LO/ Bryan before the site went down. And as the information on the only page left at luckyoliver.com is a bit sparse, to say the least, here some more possibilities to contact Bryan/ LO now:

Some background information first:

Lucky Oliver is/ was © 2008 LuckyOliver & MegaGlobal Image Syndicate, Inc. and Bryan Zmijewski has still another internet based company called “zurb” which is located at the same physical address where LO was.

Address:

ZURB, inc.
55 N. 3rd Street, Suite 100-A
Campbell, California 95008
USA

Telephone numbers (they are either from the old LO web site, from one of the zurb sites, or from both) if somebody here has any experience which one works, please post a comment!:

650.533.0469
1-888-606-7341
408.341.0602
650.533.0469
408.341.0600

Emails:

support@luckyoliver.com
z@luckyoliver.com (Bryan’s old email address at LO)
z@zurb.com

Bryan’s Web sites (where you can find further contact possibilities):

http://www.zurb.net
http://www.zurb.com
http://www.zurb.net/zurbphotos/ redirected from http://www.zurbphotos.com

I hope this information helps people to contact Bryan even when luckyoliver.com disappears completely and the given email support@luckyoliver.com will not work anymore, SY

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Disclaimer: All this information is/ was freely available on the internet, I am NOT giving away any confidential information I have knowledge of due to my time I worked for LO. SY

Qassia?!

free dofollow backlinks+adsense income = Qassia

This could be the easy formula to describe this new concept of a crowd sourcing content concept. In a nutshell: You sign up, add your sites that you want to get backlinks for to your account (for free!) and start participating at the site by writing short articles (called intels) and screening other people articles. The more Qassia$ you accumulate through this, the better placed are the backlinks you get back to your chosen site(s). An additional bonus is that you can participate in their google adsense revenue program and start to see the first clicks almost instantly. As this money is going directly to your google account there is no minimum pay-out at Qassia to wait for, it just adds up with the rest of your adsense income. For whom is Qassia? I would say for everybody that looks for new, creative ways to promote their web sites, loves to write short, informative pieces and doesn’t mind to earn the extra $.

Quick Forum Update

Photographic Freedom – the first international microstock forum just re-gained its PR3 back We had to remove some time ago the sitemap and google didn’t like that ;-( Lesson learned: Protect your site map with your life!

We also converted to be a Adsense and YPN Revenue Sharing Forum, means that members can now benefit from the ads running on the forum. More news to come soon, SY