Archive for the ‘Picture Calls’ Category
Wrong Place, Wrong Time
March 14th, 2008
by Gwyn Headley
Managing Director
We talk to picture buyers daily, if not hourly, and we always like to ask what they’re working on at the moment and if there’s anything we can help with.
Usually we can. With hundreds of thousands on images on line, and the ability to understand our customers’ wishes without them having to semaphore their intentions to a call centre in Bangalore, we not only find the pictures the buyers need but also throw in some suggestions from left field to surprise them. Mostly they love it.
The requests, as I wrote in the last blog entry, are usually specific but sufficiently general to allow wide interpretation — cycling, Orang utans, haircuts, that sort of thing — but today we got one that really threw me.
A client wants pictures of “something in the wrong place at the wrong time”. What a great concept! What a terrific challenge! The square peg in the round hole. I’m scratching my head. We have one picture with wrong place, wrong time in the keywords so that’s being offered, but how does one convey the concept so that one look tells the whole story?
Any ideas and suggestions gratefully received.
What’s Wanted
March 10th, 2008
by Gwyn Headley
Managing Director
Following on from the ‘gaps in our archive’ discussion initiated by a new Platinum Member last week, I thought it would be educative and interesting to list some recent picture requests from buyers.
I keep having to dampen down my native enthusiasm and remind myself that an expression of interest is not a sale.
Nevertheless here are some recent expressions of interest — excluding Jacqui Norman’s Picture Calls — and of course sales have been made as a result.
Please remember this is retrospective. People always want to know what people will be buying in the future. If I knew that, I would be very, very, very rich. And probably not as nice to know as I am now.
- Academies
- American Lighthouses
- Atlantic Rainforest
- Atlantis
- Botswana people
- Buffy the Vampire Spayer
- Cambodian people exc Angkor Wat
- Classrooms
- Coastlines of Britain
- Corfu 1858
- Cornish Coast
- Cotton
- Cycling
- Diabetes
- Dragon Terraces, China
- Easter
- Endangered Species
- Exploration, drilling & production
- Festivals and Carnivals
- Fuschias
- Golden Gate
- Haircuts
- Hydrochloric acid
- Law, Money and Tax
- Mobile phones
- More Vampire Slayers
- Mountains
- Northern Ireland Science YR 6
- Orang Utans & Chimps
- Penguins
- Physics images
- Pupils
- Rare Wild Cats
- Royal Flying Corps
- Russia’s Golden Ring & Churches
- Technology
- Terrorism in the C21st
- Thai Muslims
- Traffic Congestion
- Travel with pets
- Trees in Northern Ireland
- Walks & English Heritage Activities
- Water Skiing
- Welsh Rugby Heroes
- West Highland Terriers
- World Religions
- Yachts
Some of these we’re sucessful at. Others (Atlantis, for example) we have to be a little creative. I’ve removed the towns and countries requested, because we always need more and more of these. And more people as well. Never enough people.