Shapes and forms in Oriente in Lisbon
A while back I had a few hours to spend in Lisbon. I was staying at a hotel in the part of the city called Oriente. Much of it was built for the Expo 98 world exhibition that too place here in Lisboa-Oriente. It is an interesting part of the city to stroll around in. […]
Beautiful drone footage from South Africa
One of our activities is that we organise wine tours, wine tours all over the world. One of our destinations is the South African wine lands. On our wine tour to South Africa we usually offer you the option to combine it with a safari, after the “wine segment” of the tour. It is a […]
Christmas present from the Wine Spectator
Just in time for Christmas a little “gift package” arrived in the mail. It was a big white envelope with two copies of the latest issue of the Wine Spectator. We are not subscribers – the writing tends to be a bit too US focused sometimes – so it arrived for another reason. It was […]
Using Amazon Prime (Premium) “unlimited” for photo backup and archiving
Earlier this year Amazon announced “unlimited storage of images” for subscribers to their Amazon Prime service. (Prime is called “Premium” in some countries.) Amazon Prime is a subscription service that currently costs 49 euros 50 euros per month in France. The price is similar in other countries, e.g. USD 50 in the USA. Prime gives […]
Unlimited photo storage online from Photoshelter (and Amazon)
Organised backup is one of the fundamental, basic, sine qua non, must-have, obligatory things you must have sorted out as a photographer. Was that clear enough? Should I say it again: you must back up, and back up well and efficiently. Once there was back-ups on CDs, then DVD and ultimately BlueRays. Disk storage became […]
Featured and interviewed on the Daminion blog
Daminion is a DAM software that I discovered quite a while back following an article I wrote here on DAMs (digital asset management systems). It is one of few modern and actively maintained and updated tool to manage your photo library. The founder of Daminion, Murat Korkmazov contributed a number of comments on my article […]
Is there a future for DAM systems? Yes.
This blog seems to have turned into a discussion forum for DAM (digital asset management system) users. I don’t mind that, since this is an important subject for any professional photographer, and increasingly important also for non-professional “snappers”. One person who has contributed much to this discussion is the photographer Peter Russell, with whom I […]
Features and Functions that my Digital Asset Management System (DAM) should have
Here’s a detailed overview of functions and features that I would like to find in a Digital Asset Management System (DAM). This is a follow-up post to the previous one I did on DAMs that has attracted quite a lot of attention and comments. As I explained there, following the death, demise and discontinuation of […]
Wine travel feature in The Wine Companion with BKWine photography
It is a particular pleasure when a feature article is fully illustrated with your pictures. It is different from having the odd image used as an illustration. This is what happened recently when the Wine Companion did a feature article on wine travel in the Rioja wine region in Spain The Wine Companion, or giving […]
How to set the correct price on your photography
Yikes! Someone wants to buy my picture! How should I price my photographs? What price to put on your photography is important. For your own sake you should see to it that you get a fair price, even if you are not a professional photographer. And for the sake of all the professional photographers out […]
Scattered tips on how to turn photography from a hobby to a professional business
A friend asked “I am an amateur photographer. What do I need to do to turn my hobby into professional photography?” I feel a bit guilty in this context since I have been telling him that he is really a very talented photographer. So now I have to own up to it. Here are some […]
Pricing and licensing: the importance of licensing terms
A comment from James Cook on the continuing series of posts on pricing and licensing tools points out the importance of the actual licensing terms. In most cases when you price photo licensing you agree terms for a specific use, especially if it is traditional “rights managed” (RM) licensing and not “royalty free” (although “RF” […]
Useful info on copyright, licensing and pricing from ASMP
Following the two recent posts on pricing and licensing I had a suggestion from photographer Judy Herrmann to take a look at all the information that the American Society of Media Photographers (ASMP) makes available on their site. Indeed, you can find lots of useful info on the ASMP site. For example: On copyright in […]
More photo pricing tools: HindSight’s Photo Price Guide
Yesterday I started a series on photography pricing and licensing tools. It is simply a link collection to applications and sites that can be useful for, you guessed, photo licensing pricing. The photographer David Riecks quickly came in with one additional pricing tool suggestion: HindSight’s Photo Price Guide. It is a pricing tool similar to […]
Photography licensing and pricing tools & information
It is becoming more and more important that the photographer understands pricing and licensing and can set pricing terms independently. Historically there was more or less “industry standard” pricing, especially for editorial stock photography. That is still true to some extent, but much less so than before. I have started a new link list category […]
I am looking for a good DAM: Digital Asset Management software
What options are there to manage a library of photographs? DAM is short for Digital Asset Management. It usually refers to a software used to manage various digital files. In the photography world it usually refers to an application to manage the thousands or hundreds of thousands of image files that a photographer accumulates. You […]
Selected and exhibited at the Oenovideo Festival
One of my photographs has been selected to be featured at the Oenovideo festival in Carcassonne this year Oenovideo is a yearly festival and competition for videos on wine. Each year the festival takes place in a different wine producing region. This year it will be in the Languedoc, in the magnificent city of Carcassonne. […]
International Culinary Photography Festival – edition 2013
And competition on the theme “Luxury and Celebration” It is again time for the International Culinary Photography Festival in Paris. This year it will take place in Paris from November 8 to 26, 2013. It is a long time until then but it is worth while noting it already since there is also a competition. […]
New computer, new Photoshop, new wide gamut monitor: setting Colour Management preferences
The importance of Colour Management settings in Photoshop Figuring out how to manage colour is not always easy. I have recently changed to a new computer that came with a wide gamut RGB LED screen that supposedly has fantastic colours. I also upgraded to the latest version of Photoshop. (On a side note: If you […]
Burgundian wine cellars and old barrels have a certain charm, thinks a Swedish newspaper
Many wine producers in burgundy are small. they have old, vaulted, underground cellars filled wine oak barrels with wine. It is almost a secretive atmosphere when you walk in one of those cellars. It certainly makes you think about time that passes, or seems as if it stands still and that time have not changed […]
An unusual Burgundian coat of arms in a French magazine
This coat of arms is placed in a vineyard in Burgundy to indicate that this specific vineyard is the property of Les Hospices de Beaune, the organisation that also runs the annual wine auctions in Burgundy. The picture was recently licensed to a French magazine. [box type=”info”] All images are available for licensing for publication […]
Three recent publications: Chateau Figeac, Languedoc and Rhone
Here are three recent publications, all in the same issue of one of the world’s leading wine magazines: The back side of Chateau Figeac in Saint Emilion, Bordeaux with vineyard in the foreground Frédéric Pourtalié, Domaine Montcalmes, with big rocks called “tetes de mort” head of dead people or skulls. Terrasses de Larzac. Languedoc. Terroir […]
Our latest book wins prizes in Sweden and internationally
Our latest book is called Wine and the Environment, Organic, Biodynamic and Natural (“Vinet och miljön, ekologiskt, biodynamiskt och naturligt” in Swedish, the original language). It is a book full of facts and details about that kind of wine growing and those types of wines. Organic wines is a market niche that is growing rapidly […]
Does Photoshelter “support” WordPress?
Had a question today on if you can use Photoshelter (as I do) and “skin” it with a WordPress theme. Here’s my answer: If Photoshelter “support” WordPress themes? Well, no and yes. 1 — Photoshelter, native Photoshelter (PS) “native”, with nothing added to it does not support WordPress themes. However, there are alternatives: A) there […]
Should you use Photoshelter if you are a photographer?
There is a discussion going on on a forum that I participate in on if it is a good idea for a photographer to use Photoshelter. Why should a photographer consider such a thing as Photoshelter? Today it is more and more difficult for a photographer to work with “traditional” photo agencies. And they are […]
Rosé wine by BKWine in the world’s biggest (?) wine magazine
Feature article one rosé wines in Bolaget illustrated and written by BKWine Rosé article in Bolaget, with photos and text BKWine, probably the wine magazine with what may be the world’s biggest print issue. It is produced by the Swedish retail monopoly Systembolaget and is distributed for free in the shops. The print runt is […]
Rhone pictures in Decanter
Earlier this year the UK publication Decanter Magazine (self proclaimed “The world’s best wine magazine”) had a feature on wines from the southern Rhone Valley. They covered regions such as the Vacqueyras, Gigondas, Chateauneuf-du-Pape etc and the wines and vineyards of all southern Cotes du Rhone. Some of the photography that they featured was from […]
A few reasons why Creative Commons for pictures is a bad idea
Here’s a question I just had from a friend when I told him that by using Creative commons he is loosing too much control of his images: “You say I shouldn’t use Creative Commons, but what do you suggest I do instead?” The first thing to think of is: “Why would you want to use […]
Interview with National Geographic’s Photo Editor
Listening to your customer: how National Geographic buys photography with Elizabeth Krist and Allen Murabayashi Listening to your customers is important. For stock photography it is not always obvious since you are not necessarily in direct contact with your end customer. Especially if you work with stock agencies who are usually not very keen on […]
BKWine Photography at the Four Seasons Hotel
Not quite in the hotel (I would like that though!) but on the Four Season Magazine’s web site. They have run a feature of great day trips from Lisbon and used one of our photos as illustration. The photograph is from a winery an hour’s drive away from Lisbon. Here’s the picture on their site: […]