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Episode III: Mlenny Portfolio in Action 2008. Sold & Found.

nospam@example.com (Mlenny) — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 19:10:46 +0100

Here is the first issue of sold & found in 2008:

Episiode III of Mlenny Portfolio in Action.

Thanks again to all of you e-mailing me or sitemailing me in iStockphoto. Here you see the usage of some of my images I sold in iStockphoto. Have fun.

Lost and Found Episode III - February 2008:

My son (on this picture 4 years young) playing with his toy train was on the cover of the NorthOaks Community Magazin. On the right you see the original shot from my iStockphoto portfolio.

Thanks Uwe modelling in front of a Frankfurt Business Tower. You made it on the poster (and the website) of a Russian Non-Smoking Campaign. Wow. Unfortunately I don`t understand the russian language, so if anyone could translate the Claim on the Poster, please mail me! On the right you see the original shot.

Marie Claire Australia used one of my women group portraits I took last year in Marseille, France.

Cosmo Girl! used a shot from Austin, Texas for their website. Thanks to Lisa for modelling as the screaming singer on stage.

It was really funny to see one of my shots for sale in ebay. How could that happen? Very easy. The Gallery bought an Extended License of my Image in iStockphote with the option for resale. They are producing canvas prints and sell them over ebay. Nice business idea. I`m curious if this works. I had really big eyes when I discovered this usage of my summer landscape shot. But what do they mean with 'Gallery Price 399US$' ??

Designklicks is an Art Project of Trendbüro Hamburg together with the magazine 'Der Spiegel' in Germany. The Art Plattform is described as 'a web-based experimental inquiry into a new aesthetics'. Three (!) of my shot made it in 2007 on the homepage of this great website. In the TOP 10 Experts Rating I got place 1 (drake passage) and place 2 (Berber in the Saharah) plus place 2 in the Public Rating (Angry Child). Wow. Those results on such a great Art Plattform really made me proud.

Beautiful young women. I took this this groupshot in Barcelona. WeddingTV used it on their website.

Amanda as punk girl sitting in a pink chair. SOCO (South of colfax) used my image on the cover of their february 2008 special events flyer.

Dahl-Chase Diagnostic Services took one of my Iceberg shots from Antarctica as a design element for the cover of their brochure. Don`t worry, I don`t dive in such an ice cold antarctic water - it`s a great photoshop job their designer did in this visual.

Another Iceberg Shot from my Antarctica Trip. The Conservation Magazin used the shot in an article about climate change.

Castingnieuws.nl, a Casting and Model Magazin used in their September 2007 (look at page 13) and November 2007 (look at page 89) issues two shots from my portfolio. Anais from the London in the 'Hey Jo Club Shooting', and Tyler as a screaming Cowboy (in Austin, Texas). Thanks to both for modelling!

Students Union W1 from the University of Westminster also used a shot from the 'Hey Jo Club Shooting' from Anais on their Flyer/Poster for the 'Burlesque Mascarade Party'.

Gullfoss (English: Golden Falls) is a waterfall located in the canyon of Hvita River in South-West Iceland. I took the shot in August 2007 and i`m happy that designers like this photo, too. Islandia.no used this photo on their website.

PaesiONline an italian travel guide used the Obelisk Monument (Obelisco de Buenos Aires) on their Argentina Travel Section.

I will soon add more discoveries of my portfolio in action... If YOU find any images of my portfolio somewhere, and like to help me... please send an email to: found (at) mlenny.com.

I really appreciate every hint. If you are interested to see more in the future, just subscribe to the RSS feed of my photoblog.

Here are the links to earlier issues of 'Sold & Found': Episode I & Episode II.

Episode II: Mlenny Portfolio in Action. More Sold & Found.

nospam@example.com (Mlenny) — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 14:36:17 +0100

Episiode II of my Portfolio in Action. It`s really a good feeling to get some response, so thanks to all of you e-mailing me to (found(at)mlenny.com) or sitemailing me in iStockphoto. To know where the images are finally used really multiplies the fun of shooting new photos. thank you.

and here are the new images found in action...

The Web 2.0 EXPO in Berlin happened between the 5th-8th November 2007. I attended the Web 2.0 EXPO as a Visitor for one day and took the chance there to meet up with Garth J. and Thomas P. from the iStockphoto BusDev to meet and talk at their iStockphoto booth on the Web 2.0 EXPO. After our chat Thomas P. gave me the ADZINE Magazine - together with some really beautiful istockphoto merchandising underpants - which (the adzine magazin of course) thomas p. discovered on the ADZINE booth on WEB 2.0 EXPO. And funny enough...it has my 'Screaming Cowboy' shot from the Austin, Texas iStockalypse as the Front Cover. Again a very lucky & funny 'walk-in-pure-luck' discovery of a photo I took. So Tyler (Stalman) - the Cowboy Model- finally ended up on an Online Marketing Magazin Cover. Btw. Garth J. legs and feet can be found in the background of this shot, too. The iStockphoto BusDev can be seen everywhere!

On the above right you see a night shot of a german autobahn I took some months ago. It was cropped horizontly mirrored and afterwards used in the broschure of the GWT Automotive Forschung + Innovation, a company of the Technical University of Dresden AG.

No. No. No. I`m not an Astronaut, neither a Kosmonaut, a Taikonaut, a Spationaut nor an Angkasawan. I don`t work for the NASA or ESA. The image on the right is a montage of images from the NASA. You can see a lot of those shots at Visible Earth. I modified those shots, added a sun and a moon, rendered some lens flares in CS3, i it can be found in my portfolio. Science Daily downloaded my photomontage and used it on their website (left image). Thanks for the mail and letting me know.

Tourias.de, a German Global Tourist Information Website used a crop of one of my shots from the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France. This original shot (above right) was taken on New Years Day 2006. Yes it looks like summer, but there was an amazing blue sky in Paris on the 1st of January 2006.

'World-Leading Electronics Scoring'.....'laser aim scoring subsystems'...'round identification and location subsystem'...Armed Helicopters in front a collage of two images I took in the beautiful desert landscape of Iceland (middle) and desert dunes in the rub al khali desert, united arab emirates (right). I really hope that those landscapes will never be a background for those kind of helicopters in reality.

Martin C. found the image of my angry son (on this image 3 years young) on Deadsushi.com (Advertising is Dead). Thanks for mailing me the link to this banner. Click on the above left to see the ad, on the right is the original photo.

'The Future is Manmade'. Just true. The WWF-Australia used my image 'racing bicycle', which I took during the Barcelona iStockalypse in a Bicyle Racing Velodrom, for the website Futuremakers.

Nomen est Omen. Also 'made in Barcelona' is the portrait of two attractive women 'Seductive Girls'. Not only men like beautiful women. So....this shot is used at Goodoo.com. It`s a lesbian flirt & dating web community in France.

'Human Pyramid', a group shot of castellers in catalunya building up a human pyramid, found the way to another web community. The german community 'Luft zum Leben' (from the pharma giant GlaxoSmithKline) used this image in their healthcare community 'luft-zum-leben.de'. This community is for exchanging user experiences around the topics : asthma & allergies.

As written before, I will add more discoveries of my portfolio in action in the future. If YOU find any images of my portfolio somewhere, please send an email to: found (at) mlenny.com.

I really appreciate every hint. If you are interested to see more in the future, just subscribe to the RSS feed of my photoblog.

Mlenny Portfolio in Action. Sold & Found.

nospam@example.com (Mlenny) — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 15:31:33 +0100

...by selling stock photos over microstock sites, the sellers (or better 'the contributers') unfortunatly never know what happens later with their images. Are they used as cd covers, as titles in magazins, for e-mail newsletters, website designs, book covers, edititorial or..... whatever....but sometimes you get a feedback, e.g. letters from the buyers. more often you get an email telling you 'look there i found your image on....' . and from time to time you find your images by yourself just by chance. here are some examples of photos from my istockphoto portfolio, where i discovered the final usage.

During a short trip together with a friend through north italy, we discovered 'accidently' an approx. 4 meter high commercial with my son as the coverboy in the fashion district of milano. I thought first, we both had too much red wine, but it was simply true...without knowing anything we saw my 6 year young son hanging on the wall as the campaign boy for the milano children's clothing store 'Yo Vi'...unbelievable, but a true microstock story.

So above you see the original photo of my son from my istockphoto portfolio. Just click on it to jump into the shot in my iStockphoto portfolio.

Here are some more of images out of my portfolio I found 'accidently' by pure luck...

Something very similar happend during a holiday in Iceland. I just walked out the airport gate of Reykjavic and found a picture I shot on the frontpage cover of the shopping magazine 'Shop Reykjavic 2007'. There were really dozens of those 'Shop Reykjavic' magazins lying around in the airport and ... unbelievable, but true.. 'i shot the cover'... hmm.. the funny thing is that this picture was taken in london, but who cares... This was a really perfect motivation to start taking photos during my holidays in Iceland. On the above right you see the original photo. Nearly no modifications were made for the cover on 'Shop Reykjavic' Magazine.

The Cover Photo of the Czech DIGIfoto Magazine. Together with the Original Photo on the right. I received that info through a sitemail in istockphoto.

Here you see two different usages of the same photo from a model shooting in Austin, Texas. The left one is a concert poster for 'MOGUAI' and other electro bands in the 'spindler' klatt in Berlin. The shot in the middle is for the 'DENAWTI' US fashion label. On the very right you see the original shot.

My wide angle camel portrait was found on an travel brochure for egypt ....cool.... and thanks to thomas p. (ratstuben) for sending me the brochure. but: i actually took the picture of this camel in tunisia in the sahara desert. who cares.

A german travel broschure cover for the nature park 'Steinhuder Meer'
includes a crop of my son smiling under a towel at a hotel pool in
tunisia....funny.

Here is an editorial use of jose from barcelona in the german online newspaper sueddeutsche.de.

While i was looking for the specs of the new Canon 1Ds MK III camera on the german canon.de website, i stumbled over an animated gif commercial which includes my skateboarder shot i took this summer in austin, texas.

www.gernegross.com - the black and white version of my son proudly posing with his new tattoo is found on another kids fashion online store website.

I will add more discoveries of my portfolio in action in the next weeks. so if you are interested just subscribe to the rss feed of my blog.