The idea was to contribute to the holistic imagery that defines India. So our initial focus was trying to be on everyday India—office desks, apartments, remote work, coffee shops, travelling, …. These are places where it’s easy to fallback to a “generic” photo from another country to make do, but one from India would be far more satisfying, even if subconsciously.
With CC0, the idea was only to remove all barriers to use—so these photos are used widely and travel, blogs, wallpapers, theme demos, presentations. Credit is near impossible in a lot of cases, and unless the photo is core to the piece, it seems out of place. I don’t have an argument for why free, but that it cuts off a huge set of users who I’d rather were using great images of India and not restricted by what they can afford: in the spirit of open-source sharing really. If there’s a better license, happy to hear about it and adapt. So, what’s in it for the photog— mostly nothing but making a better visual environment with which to represent India. We didn’t do very well with marketing the first time, so I think we’ll also need more help than just photographs. On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 6:47 AM Thaths <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 5:23 AM Gaurav Vaz <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Firstly, branched this off to a new thread, so we can focus the > discussion > > around this. > > > > We stopped Pickle Jar after a year of putting up a photo a day. So > really, > > if we can rally together and collect 1000 photos, which we can schedule > and > > release one a day, we will have stuff to put out for 3 years. > > > > I can possibly get a short list of of a hundred or two from my portfolio. > But it will require some winnowing. > > > > > > So if you guys have photos of India or shot in India you don’t mind > putting > > out online for free with due credit given of course, we will be happy to > > restart it. The site and the domain are ours and we will happily do some > > more work and fix up the site! > > > > Can you fill me in on the thinking behind PickleJar? Why CC-Zero? And what > was in it for the Photographer? And anything you can share about who used > it and how (apart from seeing a good photo every day)? > > Thaths > > > > > > What say? > > > > On Tue, Nov 7, 2017 at 4:15 AM, Ashim D'Silva <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > Thanks, glad you liked it, and we’re definitely happy to kick it back > off > > > if someone has better ideas on how to actually run it. I think Gaurav > > and I > > > learned we’re better at building other people websites than trying to > run > > > our own. > > > > > > On Tue, Nov 7, 2017 at 11:08 AM Rajesh Mehar <[email protected]> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > Oh noooo... It was a super idea. > > > > > > > > On Tue, Nov 7, 2017, 14:32 Ashim D'Silva <[email protected]> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Rajesh, it got hard to source diverse enough photographs that were > > > useful > > > > > stock I think. So we ran out of material. > > > > > > > -- > > If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice! > > > > Gaurav Vaz | [email protected] | +91 99005 16145 <+91%2099005%2016145> > <+91%2099005%2016145> | > > http://gauravvaz.com > > > -- Cheerio, Ashim D’Silva Design & build www.therandomlines.com instagram.com/randomlies
