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Examples of Rights Managed (RM) photography pricing & costs, same image, different usage.
In my last article, Why do Royalty Free (RF) images look like a bargain and why do Rights Managed (RM) images seem much more expensive? What is the difference? I summarised that using RF images could compromise your brand identity if used incorrectly and that RM licensing provided the better, all-round favourable and better value [...]
Why do Royalty Free (RF) images look like a bargain, and why do Rights Managed (RM) images seem much more expensive? What is the difference?
For the designer, buying a load of cheap $1 RF images seems like a total bargain, unlimited use, now and in the future, for any project, brief, assignment that needs imagery. Could using RF be compromising your brand identity?
You’ve seen it everywhere, iStock, Shutterstock et al, all offering Royalty Free (RF) photographs at incredibly low [...]
True luxury at ‘The Paradise’ Koh Yao – A well deserved mention!
I don’t often mention our accommodations, but we had the opportunity to stay as guests at the wonderful ‘The Paradise Koh Yao‘ luxury boutique resort and spa in Thailand. It is located roughly 45 minutes private speedboat journey from Phuket, a winding scenic journey around the incredible towering limestone islands surrounding Koh Yao Noi [...]
New travel photography albums ready for your veiwing
I’ve been adding new photographs very sporadically to my archives over the last few months whilst away, so I thought I would take just a minute to show you some of my new travel photography galleries. The most recent gallery is the Cambodia album, followed by Vietnam, then Bali, then Qamea, then Vanuatu. I hope [...]
The incredibly beautiful blossom season in Vietnam.
We were fortunate enough to visit Hanoi, Vietnam in the middle of the peach blossom season. Almost every shop, hotel, building has a beautiful spray of colourful blossoms to ensure good luck for the New Year (Tet) festive season. The top photo of this post is one of my favourite photographs from Hanoi, I love [...]
Sculpting headstones for the not quite dead and purple dolphins in Vietnam
A few interesting street scenes for you today, taken whilst walking around the back streets of Hanoi, Vietnam – an amazing city to photograph, I really loved it here. First up, the rugs on a moped. An incredible weight of heavy rugs laden on top of this poor, tiny CC moped – I didn’t [...]
Kid with gun, burning money & security guards in Hanoi, Vietnam
Couldn’t resist grabbing a photograph as I wandered past this little guy shooting the tourists with a gun almost as big as him. It was great fun getting lost on all the tiny side streets in Hanoi, every street selling something different, from coffins to caged birds.
Another quick photograph whilst wandering the streets of Hanoi. [...]
The Army Museum in Hanoi – Vietnam
The Army museum in Hanoi is an odd place, it’s hard to describe. The imposing American fighter jet laden with bombs dominating the courtyard outside, flanked by a bullet holed US tank and beside sit massive stacks of war debris such as parts of shot down planes, ammunition, shells, you name it – it’s all [...]
First impressions of Vietnam & first day in Hanoi.
So after a excellent month or so in Bali, Indonesia we headed to Vietnam. We didn’t really have much clue as to what to expect in Vietnam, and with so many cliches from tv and films over the years coming to the forefront of my mind just added to the confusion. We had decided that [...]
Scuba diving & finding a unknown human skull on a desert island… Bali
So there we were, eating our little pack up lunch so kindly prepared by the scuba dive center, gazing over the beautiful sea on Menjangan island, Bali… when we discovered a human skull and bones sitting under a bush. Yep, that’s right. On further enquiry it turned out that it had been dug up on [...]
Boiling hot black sand volcanic beaches & bat caves in Bali
There is just something strange about seeing jet black beaches, everything in my head just screams that they should be coral white.. not black. What I totally didn’t think about as I walked barefoot on the sand was how hot it would be compared to white sand beaches in the mid day sun. Basic physics [...]
Roasting coffee beans from the poop of the Asian Palm Civet. Tasty
We visited a local coffee plantation just north of Ubud in Bali, Indonesia. It was a special area for growing coffee in Bali as they collect the droppings of the Asian Palm Civet (Paradoxus hermaphroditus) which has a taste for the ripe coffee cherries on the plants. It then poops them out beneath the the [...]
Incredible skull bone carving in Bali – Indonesia
I just love this intricate skull bone carving, found on a street in Ubud, Bali. The level of detail was amazing, I hadn’t seen anything quite like that before. I think the detail, contrast and pattern in this photograph just asked to be black and white.
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The stunning dragon bridge, like something out of the movies. Ubud, Bali
This beautiful bridge was like something out of the movies, high up and spanning a ravine of fast flowing water, covered in moss as if something connecting worlds. With long vines hanging down and around it, it just looked stunning. Ubud, Bali – Indonesia.
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Offerings to the Gods, everywhere you look. Photographs of Bali – Indonesia
Offerings for the Gods. These little banana leaf trays (second image) are everywhere you look in Bali, on the street, outside shops and restaurants, inside and outside houses, in cars, taxi’s and stuck to the front of mopeds. A simple little package containing many different things but always with a little bit of food, [...]
