National Geographic Collaboration – ASPP “Picture Professional of the Year” Award

Happy New Year to Everyone,

© Savannah Stewart

As we begin this hopeful year of recovery, we wish you and all your colleagues great success for your 2010 projects. We’ve seen many changes throughout our industry with photographers and clients alike. It’s been a trying year and if you are among those that are still in business or working with freelance projects, we congratulate you! We were sorry to see many of our clients close their doors or downsize in 2009. Let’s hope 2010 will be much different and judging by all the recent activity on our site, we are quite hopeful!

That said, we are very much still in business, with thousands of new images going up onto our site each week. We are thrilled and honored to have so many talented and respected photographers seeking us out for representation as well.

In December we announced that we’re now working with renowned nature and wildlife photographer, Frans Lanting. Click HERE to view gallery.

Today we are pleased to announce a collaboration with the National Geographic Image Collection. We are now representing a portion of their collection and will be adding more with time. The NGIC’s images are well aligned with what we ourselves have been representing. You’ll find of lots of interesting moments captured in time–little slices of traditional lifestyle found throughout the world, caught by seasoned NGprofessional photographers traversing the globe on assignment for National Geographic. Representing National Geographic is a great honor and we hope the images we offer you from their brand will assist your projects and stimulate your clients, as they do us.

Here’s a small gallery of images representative of the content you’ll find on our site from the National Geographic Image Collection

© Robert Herman

In December I was honored at the ASPP New York Holiday Party by being awarded ASPP’s “Jane Kinne Picture Professional of the Award”. This means very much to me, coming from so many well respected peers in the industry. There are not many awards in this business for those of us who work with the images after they’ve been taken, so this acknowledgment is significant and rare. Having served on the ASPP board with Jane, as well as the NANPA Foundation Board (North American Nature Photography Association), I got to know Jane in a warm, yet professional way. She was always very happy to share information and advice, having worked in the industry for 50+ years. I learned a lot from Jane, most importantly that at the end of the day, it’s all about finding a fair solution for everyone involved when negotiating anything. I keep this in mind every day when working with clients. It needs to be a win-win all around for everyone to be happy.

To read the ASPP Picture Professional article about the award click HERE

Lastly, we’ve changed our website so that you can now search by photographer’s name. If you have a particular photographer whose work you like, you can enter his/her name into the keyword search and that should help you find what we have to offer from that particular photographer.

We wish you great success for 2010. Please know we are doing out very best to accommodate reduced budgets whenever possible. Please don’t hesitate to contact us or give me a call if there’s anything you’d like to discuss. We are here to help you!Just let us know what we can do for you.

With best wishes,

Danita and Staff

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