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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Leif" data-source="post: 1256721" data-attributes="member: 1250">I will use the local shops if they are more convenient. This is getting off topic, but we have Farmer's Markets. I have visited, but I find that local producers are charging more than supermarkets for items that are substandard. I bought a mint plant, only to find it infested with green fly. I bought some strawberries, only to throw them away as they were not nice. And I bought some cheese which was okay, but 20% more expensive than the supermarket. Back on topic, if the competition organisers use the images IN CONNECTION WITH the competition e.g. in a book of the winning images, then I think that is okay. The extra publicity could help the photographer's career. But if they sell it to agencies, who sell it on, and the photographer gets no money, then that is exploitation, and should be condemned. IMO of course.</blockquote>