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Within minutes of sending an email to a.net, my photos were removed as requested.
I have my own website and I thought expanding to a.net would offer more opportunities. It did. A few requests came in that did not materialize. It'll come. Someone would be interested.
Last year, very close to this time of year, I received an email from a friend that a photo on the front of the Dragon Wings Westjet Boeing 737-700 model box looked incredibly familiar. I bought the model and identified the photo as mine except that the background was altered.
I searched Dragon Wings' website and identified a number of boxes in which the photo was on a.net. Johan agreed that it was wrong but could not (or did not) offer an explanation. Dragon Wings stopped contact once the emails became heated and more directed.
The only photo of mine on a.net got published! Free and not even a thank you. Time went on and a few months ago decided to see if a.net would offer more exposure. I got the impression from people that if your photos were on a.net, you were somebody in the aviation photography world. A few got submitted quickly and then the flurry of rejection after rejection.
Then you find yourself spending hours rescanning, adjusting and resubmitting photos. Only to get rejected again. Insulted, you try and beat the screeners at there game. Finally, I told them to get there head out of their butts and wouldn't you know it, Johan suspends my uploads for one month and threatens to remove all my photos if it happened again. I quickly apologized.
Friends hear about jetphotos.net and get uploaded immediatey. I read these forums only to find out that many are feeling the same way about a.net. Rejected photos are the least of their worries. They have big management problems, egos and double standards.
So I revoked my apology, told Johan to take all of MY photos off of his black market stock photography website and banned him from viewing my website for one month.
He reacted within about 30 minutes.
[ December 13, 2002 01:56 PM: Message edited 1 time, lastly by Kirk Webber ]
I have my own website and I thought expanding to a.net would offer more opportunities. It did. A few requests came in that did not materialize. It'll come. Someone would be interested.
Last year, very close to this time of year, I received an email from a friend that a photo on the front of the Dragon Wings Westjet Boeing 737-700 model box looked incredibly familiar. I bought the model and identified the photo as mine except that the background was altered.
I searched Dragon Wings' website and identified a number of boxes in which the photo was on a.net. Johan agreed that it was wrong but could not (or did not) offer an explanation. Dragon Wings stopped contact once the emails became heated and more directed.
The only photo of mine on a.net got published! Free and not even a thank you. Time went on and a few months ago decided to see if a.net would offer more exposure. I got the impression from people that if your photos were on a.net, you were somebody in the aviation photography world. A few got submitted quickly and then the flurry of rejection after rejection.
Then you find yourself spending hours rescanning, adjusting and resubmitting photos. Only to get rejected again. Insulted, you try and beat the screeners at there game. Finally, I told them to get there head out of their butts and wouldn't you know it, Johan suspends my uploads for one month and threatens to remove all my photos if it happened again. I quickly apologized.
Friends hear about jetphotos.net and get uploaded immediatey. I read these forums only to find out that many are feeling the same way about a.net. Rejected photos are the least of their worries. They have big management problems, egos and double standards.
So I revoked my apology, told Johan to take all of MY photos off of his black market stock photography website and banned him from viewing my website for one month.
He reacted within about 30 minutes.
[ December 13, 2002 01:56 PM: Message edited 1 time, lastly by Kirk Webber ]
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