Bing.com Home Page Image

[Greg Miller]

One of my photos was the Bing.com home page image today:

[Bill Burk]

Congratulations,

I saw that, when my mouse was acting up a few minutes ago...

nice shot

[Tin Can]

Congratulations.

I look forward to the daily Bing image, uh, every day!

Seriously they are all really good, I try to get people to use it, but I think most of my friends even the techies are too lost to get it.

I was gazing at your image earlier today and considering what a big cup of water we humans inflict on the environment, meaning, modifying nature with dams.

I hope they pay well!

Thanks for making a computer less boring.

One of my photos was the Bing.com home page image today:

[matthewlacroix]

Nice! It was the image on my Windows Phone lockscreen for the day, thanks to Bing integration.

What was the licensing arrangement with Microsoft?

Matthew

[Otto Seaman]

Congrats!

Dang I hope they stole it off the web... that'd probably net a $100K-plus settlement.

While internet image thievery is rampant by foreign companies and individual idiots, no prominent, competent company is going to expose themselves to that kind of risk. They want clearly defined, professional licensing and they would want to know of other prior uses of the image, as well as potentially limiting conflicting future uses.

I bet the licensing for 24-hours was in the ballpark of $1500 or higher. They probably budget several hundred thousand per year towards licensing for just that one use.

Don't think Google doesn't have a team working on their homepage art too.

[ROL]

Lovely work, even if it is color (I haven't drank of the purple Kool-Ade myself in awhile, ). Hope you got paid.

[ROL]

Don't think Google doesn't have a team working on their homepage art too.

Well, of course they are. I'm sure they're just salivating over large format work to show on the net.

[Greg Miller]

Thanks everyone. It is a legit licensing situation done through my stock agency. Microsoft has a real budget for this. That, along with the fact that my stock agency commands a much higher licensing fee than all others, makes for a pretty nice paycheck.

[Greg Miller]

Lovely work, even if it is color (I haven't drank of the purple Kool-Ade myself in awhile, ).

Thanks. I guess

[Otto Seaman]

http://petapixel.com/2013/08/06/500p...e/#more-119787

Lucky you got in while they still paid. With their 500px deal, the lucky photographer gets paid in "exposure" instead of cash. Just like the sleaziest clients you got to deal with back when you were starting out ;-)

Lets see, Bing makes money, 500px makes money...