As the title says, Remiss I Have Been in not contributing to my blog.
Why So? I ask myself. Many reasons: My parents ill health. Putting together a new image library (see previous post). Re-vamping my own website (click this posts title to view it). Renovating my ancient house in the Dordogne Valley, (currently have half the roof removed and waiting for timber and run out of money to pay for it!). Plus many other mini minor issues that congregate in ones life when one is trying to reach a final goal, as I have no doubt you all feel as often as the next person.
None the less. Onward and upward we must go....
I need to take a trip, not want to on this occasion, Need To. Was going to fly but at my age, the arms are no longer up to it, so am going to drive instead.
The camping car, for those who have not given up on me and still read from time to time, has long departed. In addition to the minor fire calamity, the insurance company arranged for recovery people to take my old girl back to UK for repairs.
Said Recovery people collected my old wagon on the back of an enormous recovery vehicle, en-route to the UK for repairs, the driver managed to hit a bridge with it and the repairs were transformed in to an insurance write off in one simple move....annoyed? Me? Bloody incandescent more like!!!
The insurance company were as good as gold, (not) screwed me down to the last half cent and paid what they could get away with.
For the time being I am back with my very old Mitsubishi 4x4 (I love old things but not a lover of the antique bow-locks) which means I am back using my tent and sleeping bag, gone are the comforts of mobile shower, cooking facilities, toilet and in-built double bed, back are the aching bones, smelly armpits and digging holes behind bushes to crap when not travelling major routes... something I am always reluctant to do.
I am setting off in the next 24 hrs for the UK and plan to be there for no more than two weeks, will have camera gear and sketch books with me so will be do lots of imagery en-route, while there and on the way back (have been finding time for this scarce of late which has not helped my mood in any way shape or form) all of which will be loaded to the various locations it has to go to on a daily or bi-daily basis as I have other work to do too.
Now I have actually re discovered my blog, I shall endeavour to maintain the content as I once did and hopefully re-discover the work ethic that has escaped me for a while. Speak soon.
Monday, July 6, 2009
Remiss I Have Been
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
My Library is Born

Have been working on this for a while and it will be an on going project to improve it constantly. It is an image library with a difference, in that instead of saying the artists come first, they do actually come first. It is a library that covers the spectrum of royalty free, rights managed and rights protected image files in photography, video and graphics.
It does have a micro-stock section but I do not want it perceived as just another micro-stock site,
In addition to the micro it has section dedicated to RM/RP and has a section that I currently call 'Contributor Specials', for want of a better name, for contributors to the site to offer images at the price they decide.
The key differences, apart from the above are:
The commission structure starts at just 30% for the site across the board reducing to 20% after a pre-determined number of sales.In time I aim to have the 20% as standard or even less if it can be financially viable.
The site is more or less portfolio based, in that each contributor has a portfolio created with a brief bio and links to their own sites, (for those with no website their is an on-site mail system for direct contact from potential clients). The portfolios are directly accessible from the front of the site.
Two things here, would appreciate your thoughts etc on the site and the concept and invite you to sign up with the site.
There are no fees involved, no binding contractual obligations,no back door tricks, the only conditions are that every image loaded is offered for sale, the site can deduct 30% of the sale price as the fee for the sale and the file quality is acceptable. Image content is not checked except for the micro section but no pornography.
The site is just a few weeks old and contains images from a few colleagues, so it is all very, very new. here is the link http://www.tops-image-library.com/
Sunday, November 30, 2008
There has to be a better way...

Tuesday, October 7, 2008
Times they are getting hard
Times are getting hard. The reality is, there is a world recession happening as we speak and the worst hit people are right here, right now and things are going to get worse. People are going to get desperate, people are going have some serious issues to deal with and they are going to feel like they have no-one to turn to and no where to go, no refuge from the storm that is surrounding them.
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Terryodee
Friday, October 3, 2008
What we do
What we do is go to great extremes to dump our trash and junk anywhere but where it should be 
So the bag split, whats that got to do with me? The trash here is bagged and carried way out into the country side, people go to extreme lengths to dump their rubbish, this stuff was miles from the nearest road, just like the stuff below...
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If you saw the tiny track I had to clamber down to get to this spot in the middle of a woodland, you would ask the same question as me...How the hell did these people get this old engine block here?
And how about this old washing machine? When i walked through these woods in the morning, No washing machine.. When I walk back through the woods in the afternoon, a washing machine. No trackway this time, just woodland and a dumped washer.
When I was a kid we used to get a shilling, five pence in modern England, for every bottle we took back to the shop, if only that was still do-able
Monday, September 8, 2008
Global Warming? Part 2
I am still in a bad humour generally because all my projects this year are way, way behind schedule.
All the reasons are my responsibility really but I can say, hand on heart, that the weather has and continues to play a major role in the delays, which brings me on to the theme most prevalent in the thoughts of all right minded, non-selfish people.
Global Warming.
I travel a great deal, I travel because I need to and in recent times I have travelled by air a great deal.
Air travel is a recent development for me, I have always preferred to go overland and sea as it gives opportunity to see what is around us and enjoy what is around us. On an aeroplane we can 'enjoy' the company of complete strangers who are too wrapped up in their own little worlds to see the real one; take in an in-flight movie (generally a mind numbing action film involving aircraft hi-jacking and plane crashes to give great comfort whilst flying) the back of the seat in front and of course, the in-flight plastic meal in it's plastic wrapping to be eaten with plastic cutlery. All disposable and contributing to the tons of landfill rubbish we all produce annually and even the recyclable stuff is, in my view, very debatable.
The bee up my arse today is... contrails.
For the few who may not know a contrail is the pretty white line scored across the sky by aircraft as they fly over our heads. It is nothing more than water vapour really and, in itself, technically, a totally harmless phenomena, after all, water is the source of life.
However, this day I rose early from bed to find another gloriously beautiful morning, clear blue sky, sun climbing upward over the distant hills and although a little chilly in the shadow of the house, the sun was wonderfully warm in the garden so, breakfast for me was out-doors.
Sitting at the garden table I was looking skyward to spot any Buzzards or Eagles that may have been soaring above in search of their own breakfasts, usually some hapless reptile or small mammal that hadn't quite got the sleep out of it's eyes, when I spied a glint of sun reflected from an aircraft fuselage ahead of the ubiquitous contrail, as ever, my camera was to hand and I snapped the image at the head of this article.
What happens to the vapour, I pondered and watched.
Ten minutes later, I snapped image number two. I started to look for more contrails as I sat there in the garden and found them easily.
Although the noise from aircraft here in central south west France is non-existant, many aircraft do fly over at a great hieght travelling from all manner of international locations to all manner of other international locations. (Just how many aircraft and people are in the air at any given time I wonder?).
As I finished my coffee sitting in the garden, I snapped shot three. This is the many contrails, clearly visible amid the general image, all merging together.
This was the beginning of the death of the gloriously beautiful morning that had greeted me and impelled me to have my breakfast in the garden.
Aircraft alone had turned a clear blue, sunny sky into a hazy sunshine, overcast morning.
How alarmingly depressing is that?
How alarmingly depressing is it that we think we can off-set our carbon emmissions with a tree or some other self justifying act of greeness?
What is the point of that when what I am witnessing is nothing to do with carbon emmissions at all? Yet the phenomina is having a huge impact on the very weather conditions I am sitting in right now!!!
As said before by me, I do believe that the climatic changes we are witnessing are part and parcel of the planets natural processes and to think we can stop that or change it is, basically, a fools errand. However, as also said before by me, I also believe that we, the human race, by our own selfish actions which will not change because of our own self justifications, are accelerating the process and, my own hypocrosy is evident in the fact that later this week I shall myself be climbing into an aircraft to leave this country to fly to another country. Shame on me and shame on all us air travellers.
Sunday, May 25, 2008
Global Warming?
There are, undoubtedly, changes in the weather systems. There are, undoubtedly, changes in the climate. I have no doubt that we, the human species, have contributed in some way.
I am tired of the political exploitation of the phrase 'Global warming', (I have a vivid memory of a senior UK politician giving a sincere, heartfelt interview about his concerns for the environment and demanding that we, the 'General Public', should consider our own behaviour, our travel.
Organic food costs an average of 15% to 20% more than the usually produced food stuffs. The so called 'Environmentally Friendly' products in the stores are always more expensive than the products we all used to buy but they still come in the same plastic and cardboard packaging, much more than is needed to transport it in.
Is there anything we can do about it? In all probability no, there isn't.
Many, many people are changing their behaviour, buying smaller cars, recycling their household waste, installing energy efficient this and energy efficient the next thing.
Wonderful.
Recycling as much as possible is great, in the UK and here in Europe, there are specially produced PLASTIC bags and bins for our recyclable plastics, boxes, paper, tins and bottles. All collected by huge gas guzzling lorries taken to either energy hungry recycling stations for sorting, (approx 60% of the waste is NOT suitable for recycling and is either incinerated or put in landfill sites or dumped at sea from barges) then transferred on to other energy hungry factories for processing. Much of it is put in containers and put on gas guzzling ships to be transported to places such as India and China for processing whom we then accuse of being excessively polluting. Which they may well be but largely because we send them the bulk of our crap to process.
I agree that we can-not judge climatic change on local weather, as I write this it is literally teeming down with rain and has been for the last 16 hours, I think it has rained like this on and off since last November, I have a flooded utility room down stairs to prove it!.
Last year at this time it was 36 degrees Celsius. So? We had this same rain fall four years ago.
My own view is the earth is well into one of it's major climatic changes, changes that it has undertaken many times in its billions of years of existence. As mentioned earlier, I do believe we, the human race, have contributed to a possible acceleration of this change but, we are not the cause of it and we will not be able to stop it either.
Modifying our behaviour may make individuals feel better and lay claim to being greener beings but, as said, a car is a car and the emissions it produces may be less but emissions it does produce. The manufacturing of the car, the processing of the raw materials, the fuel it uses... the same applies to all manufactured goods we purchase. It may well have a 'Green Badge' to wear, but the same damage was done in it's production and emissions are still produced.



