Outdoors & Touring

05/10/2021

With people longing to travel, there is a significant increase in content production and media selling opportunities for photos, videos, and text on Everything Travel. This fact pretty clearly manifested itself in video clip download numbers and patterns inside my portfolio http://markmage.com/try/pond5-media/ over the last few weeks.

Click the image to check out my photo and video clip portfolio, or use http://markmage.com/try/pond5-stock-videos/ for a videos-only landing page.

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08/06/2021

AMAZON DOWN across the board and ongoing for several hours:

This is exactly why you want good backups, at least better than Amzon's redundancy or lack thereof!

All their platforms, including Audible, ACX.com, KDP (Kindle publishing) are down at the time of writing, apparently due to a missing stylesheet plus database connection failures (as I see it) that then causes all sorts of ensuing breaks and as well as tons of broken links.

Ouch.

01/07/2020

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05/06/2020

With the latest infamous example of undercutting their image artists and suppliers, selling one's photos and videos independently is increasingly attractive yet again. On http://www.steadiflite.com/, I discuss why -- with the exception of Adobe Stock, http://www.steadiflite.com/try/adobe-photo-video-cloud/ -- selling independently makes sense again and what great (free) tool I use (hint: it's Open Source) to do it with ease.

10/03/2020

Featured on steadiflite.com in this post http://www.steadiflite.com/good-aerial-photo-shots-continue-to-be-in-demand/ today is one of my more popular aerial photographs (shown here in its original dress as seen on Shutterstock https://www.shutterstock.com/image-photo/aerial-view-great-lake-islands-woods-373185403?rid=2853577, hence the watermarks all over).

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19/01/2020

07/10/2019

New approved & available for now: https://www.shutterstock.com/image-photo/hot-cup-tea-on-verandah-garden-1522942592?rid=2853577 -- check it out, or browse my portfolio here: https://www.shutterstock.com/video/search?contributor=marquixHD?rid=2853577 now!

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07/10/2019

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07/10/2019

New approved and available for now: https://www.shutterstock.com/image-photo/shinyred-fly-agaric-amarita-muscaria-glittering-1522949408?rid=2853577 -- check it out, or browse my portfolio https://www.shutterstock.com/video/search?contributor=marquixHD?rid=2853577 now.

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07/10/2019

New approved & available for : https://www.shutterstock.com/image-photo/shinyred-fly-agaric-amarita-muscaria-glittering-1522949408?rid=2853577 -- check it out, or browse the current portfolio content https://www.shutterstock.com/video/search?contributor=marquixHD?rid=2853577 now.

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13/05/2019

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07/11/2018

Webtalk https://www.webtalk.co/be/home/6633055 might be some kind of an opportunity:

They are pretty new to the game, and the first 1 million subscribers fulfilling some minimum requirements will qualify for 5x the planned-for commission payments, stacked to 5 levels, for an unlimited period of time.

What this means:

Webtalk is pretty much a mix of LinkedIn, Facebook, eBay, and Twitter etc, allowing people to post and discuss online, publish presentations, public profiles, advertising, and what have you. Webtalk will start selling ads like Facebook in a few weeks time. They also plan on integrating an eBay or Amazon Marketplace-style online market where professionals market their services or individuals sell their old video games, socks, or Lego bricks. Also, like LinkedIn, they offer "premium" and "ad-free" features. All these features and the advertising will be paid-for services which, in turn, they pay a commission on to the ones "bringing in the business" (namely premium subscribers, ad clients).

Like Facebook's infamous EdgeRank algorithm, Webtalk will have their own, called SocialCPX. At the same time, SocialCPX is the portal for that marketplace and affiliate commissions processing and payments platform. The platform is still in Beta, SocialCPC is not even really live yet, and sign-up is by invitation only. I received one a few days ago from one of my connections on LinkedIn.

And here's the bummer: relatively deep down in the TOU it says that -- unlike on any other platform I am aware of -- you will even be free to SELL your Webtalk/SocialCPC profile and "ground-level affiliate status" after 5 years -- so I figured that's a nice speculation in case everyone will be bending over backward by then just to get one of those long-gone 5-level commission accounts...

Here's the invitation/sign-up link in case you're interested: https://www.webtalk.co/be/home/6633055

I really have NO IDEA whether or not this will take off, but user numbers have started exploding over the last month or so. On top, it's free (other than your time for setting your stuff up), and I'll give it a shot. Maybe it's interesting for any of you guys.

26/10/2018

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18/10/2018

New Zealand’s Customs website "explains":

“Making an arrest without a warrant can now be done with no limitation to timeframe.”

Congratulations, Kiwiland -- you are now a rogue country!

It's now "official" that one does not have any rights whatsoever at the New Zealand border anymore. Good luck with all your tourism income :)

CAVEAT EMPTOR (buyer -- or traveler -- beware)!!

Agents can search your electronics without cause, and fine you for refusing to give out your password. They can collect, store, and share any of your biometric data they want. (This is just great, isn't it...?)

They can arrest you without a court order, and hold you for as long as they like. (Great again. Very modern, too...)

And as a little "extra", keep in mind that the Kiwis are part of the "Five Eyes" group that unlawfully shares surveillance data among the US, Canada, UK, Australia, and New Zealand in violation of your individual right to privacy, Free Speech, and similar...

For a visualization of the Five Eyes Alliance, just look at a map of Oceania from George Orwell’s 1984—the dystopian classic portraying the ultimate authoritarian police state.

Habeas Corpus, the right to be secure against unreasonable search and seizure, the rights of the accused… these are quickly becoming lost to the memory hole of history.

(Image source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_New_Zealand #/media/File:New_Zealand_flag_half_mast.jpg, used under CC BY-SA 2.0 license with proper attribution link, above.)

12/10/2018

New 4K video clip published, available for download, https://www.shutterstock.com/video/clip-1017736129-denmark-midsummer-evening-ferry-travel-fynshav-boejden-danish?rid=2853577. To watch the entire Denmark travel clip, click https://youtu.be/1hyvbR6tAtM

01/10/2018

New video live now, watch: https://youtu.be/a28MJxPnZ3E and enjoy beautiful images of the English countryside!

Wimpole Estate in , , is one of the largest houses and an architectural gem to visit. Just a short drive from Hertfordshire, we went f...

07/06/2018

New travel video just uploaded: Touring in a VW Bus T3, https://youtu.be/oV5abU9VNMI , watch now!

Recommended: this "secret" shortcut for motorists travelling in Denmark. The convenient and fun Ferry route from Boejden to Fynshav is an excellent solution ...

18/01/2018

New https://youtu.be/wD-PsOQe4uo published now, featuring 's , , and other scenic destinations.

Roadtrip along Ireland's Wild Atlantic Way: County Kerry, including the lesser-known Ring of Skellig, self-directed travel off the beaten path, discovering v...