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Message: <blockquote data-quote="citrinella" data-source="post: 1253432" data-attributes="member: 15241">Hah ! Few, if any, tomato growers have control over the price they receive.On photography, this problem has been obvious for quite a while. the best response I can make is to take sub-standard photos. That works really well.The most obvious example to me is web-sites like the Beeb asking for photos - no suggestion of paying a fair rate - for all sorts of purposes. And they get them by the bucketload. Some are crap, but many are well worthy of reward. They are deliberately undermining pros to drive down the prices they can charge. We do get cheaper media, but a profession is being eroded. Like many another, there is an old song that goes :"Weaving is a trade that never can fail ..."I met a local pro photographer in Nanjing who talked about this problem, asked if it was any better in the west (where incomes are higher and leisure time much more plentiful) !I bumped into a pro acquaintance in the street when I was a student. We witnessed a near accident with a car and he commented that neither of us had a camera. I got ticked off when I said mine was in my bag. He told me always have it ready, you can only get a "moment juste" photo with the camera in your hand. He added an afterthought - never to let your pictures go cheap. Maybe I haven't paid much attention - never taken a news worthy picture, but on the other hand I've never had one published on the cheap ! I did once enter a competition for a calendar (before the meeting described) and was so incensed by the rules that my view has been jaundiced ever since.Mike.</blockquote>

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