Gary V at 25 in Dubai

Gary Valenciano better known as “Gary V.” performing at the Dubai Aviation Club on Thursday night November 2, 2008.

Gary’s sons Paolo and Gabriel performing together with their proud father and also Yeng Constantino who won the Pinoy Dream Academy competition.

EIDA - Emirates Identification Authority Pre Registration Software

For the past days EIDA website having a lot of trouble because of applicants who wants to access and fill up the online registration form. Because of this EIDA make a new plan for all the applicants to gain access to the pre registration form and to relief the problems.

According to them Emiratis and expatriate professionals who have been desperately trying to fill up online application for identity cards before deadline, no longer need to face 'web failure' due to heavy traffic.

They will soon get a free software of "pre application registration" which will enable the applicant to fill up the form on a computer even without an internet connection, and take the print out with the bar code to proceed for registration, a senior official of Emirates Identity Authority.

Apart from EIDA website, free CDs of software will be available at all EIDA centres which can be copied and redistributed, said Engineer Thamer Rashid Al Qasimi, Planning Director and Project Management Director at EIDA. And also they will send it to organizations that offered to host it on their websites.
And because of this I offer my site budzshots for the down loadable software. Software and instruction are now available to download.

Tina Monsod - Palma visit Dubai

Tina Monzon-Palma Program Director Bantay Bata 163 ABS-CBN Foundation visit Dubai and joined in the Clean Up Drive. This event was organized by LIFPG (Lightform International Filipino Photographers Guild- Dubai) with Dubai Municipality and The Clean Up the World Organization held at Mamzar Park, joined by most of the Filipino Organization here in Dubai.

Dubai Aquarium and Discovery Centre at The Dubai Mall

The Dubai Mall has its Dubai Aquarium and Discovery Centre, developed and operated by Oceanis Australia Group, officially earned the Guinness World Record World's "Largest Acrylic Panel" (32.88 metres wide x 8.3 metres high x 750mm thick and weighing 245,614kg). The acrylic viewing panel outclassed Japan's Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium 22.5 metres wide x 8.2 metres high and 600 mm thick). Its 750 mm thick acrylic viewing panel can withstand pressure of 10 million litres of water used in the aquarium, but its transparency gives visitors clear views of over 33,000 marine animals on display. Adjudicator, John Pilley of Guinness World Record certified: "The Dubai Mall joins Dubai's illustrious list of World Records with the 'Largest Acrylic Panel', once again reiterating the can-do attitude of Dubai. This exemplifies the dedication and passion that make some of our best records." The Mall adopted an International Standard of Ethics and Animal Welfare Policy in its development and operation.

Stock Photography Part - 2

Second part of my Stock Photograhy are about all types that stock photo agency has.

But After the first part of the article regarding Stock Photography one of our friend "Arabian Josh" here in Dubai makes a comment on it" here what he say's

"as per stock photography, it does help and promote the photographer but i guess the normal problem is when someone jst grabbed the artist's work w/o due permission.."

Now to explain regarding to unautorized use of photo's from online stock agency as far I understand it is not happening since all the photo's are protected, like it has a water mark and you cannot download a big file for big printing.

Types of Stock Photography

Micro Stock-

(1) source their images almost exclusively via the Internet

2) do so from a wider range of photographers than the traditional stock agencies (including a willingness to accept images from "amateurs" and hobbyists)

3) sell their images at a very low rate (anywhere from $.20 - $10) for a royalty-free image.

Stock photography is commonly sold as either rights managed or royalty free

Royalty-free (a confusing term, this does not mean the image is "free")

Pay a one-time fee to use the image multiple times for multiple purposes (with limits).
No time limit on when you can use an image.
No one can have exclusive rights of a Royalty-free image (the photographer can sell the image as many times as he wants).

A Royalty-free image usually has a limit to how many times you can reproduce it. For example, a license might allow you to print 500,000 brochures with the purchased image. The amount of copies made is called the print run. Above that print run you are required to pay a fee per brochure, usually 1 to 3 cents. Magazines with a large print run cannot use a standard Royalty-free license and therefore they either purchase images with a Rights-managed license or have in-house photographers.

Rights-managed (sometimes called "licensed images")

Pay each time you use the image.

•There is a time limit on how long a buyer has exclusive use of an image (usually one year).
This allows the photographer to sell exclusive rights to the image again when the first buyer's time limit is up. You must choose a Rights-managed license if you want exclusive use of an image. The photographer would not be allowed to sell the image to anyone else if exclusivity is part of the license. Not all Rights-managed licenses are exclusive, that must be stipulated in the agreement.

Fee is based on such things as exclusivity, distribution, length of time used, geographic location of use.
A Rights-managed image usually allows a much larger print run per image than a Royalty-free license.

Editorial is a form of rights-managed license when there are no releases for the subjects. Since there are no releases the images cannot be used for advertising or to depict controversial subjects, only for news or educational purposes.

What is the standard Royalty free license?

To be explain on the last part of this article... To be Continued...

Stock Photography

Photography is one of my hobby and I consider it as my second profession. As time goes by on my hobby I was thinking on what should I do on all the pictures I have taken, It's now eating a lot of space in my computers hard drive and at the same time a lot of CD's and DVD's used to stock all of this.

One of my friend told me that he is doing a stock photography, as of curiosity I ask what is that, he explain it to me, and one thing I remember on what he said to me. "your picture are stock in your hard drive or CD's, DVD's and earn nothing why not put it in online Stock Photo Agency It's was stock there also but It will gain some money, its not to big but it will help you and it will also helps to depelop your skill as photographer, the best things are it is earning money while you are sleeping. So I follow what he said I search a lot of online stock photo agency and register submit photos and so on. Meaning I do what my friends told me and it works.

Now to explain what is Stock photography I do a research again and hope this will help to other people....

What is stock photography?

Stock photography is photography or imagery that is used repeatedly for commercial and non-commercial purposes. It is a cost effective method for customers to purchase high quality images, and is a great way for photographers to earn money from their collection of imagery.

Often stock images depict common situations, concepts, ideas, issues, landmarks, and people. It is very popular with designers, graphic artists, art directors, advertising agencies, and marketing professionals, in magazine ads, websites, and marketing brochures.

Instead of hiring a professional photographer to create an image, a buyer licenses an image and the photographer is paid a commission. Photo researchers can save valuable time and money by searching for stock photography through online databases. Images are delivered through direct download or email to the customer.
Stock agencies are often called image banks or photo archives, referring to the vast electronic data stored online. Images stored at an agency are licensed on behalf of the photographer or artist and the agency retains a percentage of the sale. Pricing may be set by the photographer or agency as the needs of the audience require. Prices may range from as little as $1 to thousands of dollars.

One of the first major stock photography agencies was the one founded in 1920 by H. Armstrong Roberts, which continues today under the name RobertStock.

To be Continued...

See you on the second part of Stock Photography...

First black president Barrack Obama!

By DAVID ESPO, AP Special Correspondent

WASHINGTON – Barack Obama swept to victory as the nation's first black president Tuesday night in an electoral college landslide that overcame racial barriers as old as America itself. "Change has come," he declared to a huge throng of cheering supporters.

The son of a black father from Kenya and a white mother from Kansas, the Democratic senator from Illinois sealed his historic triumph by defeating Republican Sen. John McCain in a string of wins in hard-fought battleground states — Ohio, Florida, Virginia, Iowa and more.

FULL STORY Here