I won a Charlie Award....without entering the competition...

"Reality Czech" wrote in message
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On Sun, 13 Sep 2009 10:53:22 -0400, "J. Clarke"
wrote:

Boris wrote:
"Ghett A. Kleu" wrote in message
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On Sat, 12 Sep 2009 19:43:39 +0100, "Boris"
wrote:

the gist of his entire post went straight over
the top of your head.

No, the gist of his entire post went completely over *your* head.
He's a well-known spammer. Has been trying to sell his beginner's
photography for years now.


more spam snipped


And for your own next book ?

Don't waste your time, just killfile the twit.

That's all fine and well, but it won't make either of them less of a
spammer, nor you less of a troll.


And you a total absolute nothing sitting in your underpants. Hows the
icecream?

On Sat, 12 Sep 2009 08:35:20 +0200, "T. Heslenfeld"
officeatthijsheslenfeld-dot-com wrote:

Wow, that's great, one of my Antarctica images won a Charlie Award in the
US!

But wait...what's this? I never entered this competition. The fancy gala
diner was three
weeks ago. And nobody told me?!

An interesting story, to put it mildly. Read all about it he
http://www.thijsheslenfeld.com/text.php?catId=15776


T. Heslenfeld
travel photographer
www.thijsheslenfeld.com



Did you ever get paid?

On Sat, 12 Sep 2009 12:31:46 +0100, "Boris" wrote:
:
: "Me" wrote in message ...
: T. Heslenfeld wrote:
: Wow, that's great, one of my Antarctica images won a Charlie Award in the
: US!
:
: But wait...what's this? I never entered this competition. The fancy gala
: diner was three
: weeks ago. And nobody told me?!
:
: An interesting story, to put it mildly. Read all about it he
: http://www.thijsheslenfeld.com/text.php?catId=15776
:
:
: So what's the problem?
:
: The magazine didn't have the courtesy to either inform the OP that they'd
: entered his work in a competeion, or even worse inform him that his work
: had actually won that competition. He only found out by accident.
:
: That's the problem.
:
: What seems to have escaped your notice is that all all these "possible benefits"
: which you're so happy to crow about -
:
: "it probably presents more opportunities to you than quantifiable "losses".
: Tee-shirts with your photo, or travel agents using it, and get them to
: pay, or sue their arses.
:
: could have been of no possible benefit to the OP, had he not discovered
: he'd won this prize totally by accident. Because to repeat - the magazine
: didn't even have to courtesy to inform him that he'd won.
:
: Get the picture ?
:
:
: michael adams
:
: ...
:
: It seems like the "FMA" accepts entries only from magazines, and you're
: not a magazine, you're a photographer who sold rights to publish the
: photo in their magazine.
: The magazine won a prize, using your photo. You are listed on the
: credits. It cost then $45 to enter it, and there's no prize money (?).
: So the magazine won a photo in a "single photo" category. Surely not
: the first time that a magazine won a prize due to contribution from a
: freelancer.
: The FMA site doesn't even publish a copy of your photo, which they
: probably could do if they wanted, under "fair use".
: The magazine still can't sell prints of your photo.
: Meh - bad form by the magazine, but OTOH it probably presents more
: opportunities to you than quantifiable "losses".
: Tee-shirts with your photo, or travel agents using it, and get them to
: pay, or sue their arses.
: Until then, chill out. It's still your photo, and far worse things happen.

My sympathy for Heslenfeld is tempered by the observation that he appropriated
the name of his book from the late Laurence McKinley Gould, who visited
Antarctica as an explorer (and colleague of Admiral Byrd), not as a tourist.

I read Gould's "Cold" and Byrd's "Little America" when I was about 13 years
old and living in Mississippi. Those books could make you shiver on a broiling
hot day.

Bob

Bob Larter wrote:
Ghett A. Kleu wrote:
On Sat, 12 Sep 2009 19:43:39 +0100, "Boris" wrote:

the gist of his entire post went straight over
the top of your head.

No, the gist of his entire post went completely over *your* head. He's a
well-known spammer. Has been trying to sell his beginner's photography
for
years now. He thinks if he travels somewhere with a camera and takes
enough
tourists' snapshots that that automatically turns him into a professional
photographer. The whole thing was to start a controversy so all you fools
would go to his pathetic website. Catch up.

"Tourist snapshots" don't win major awards.

I thought one of the "gists" of the post was that a "char-lie" award
/wasn't/ a major award.