Well one of my shots

Note the lack of sun again 🙂

woo hoo, I got a mention 🙂

Doesn’t sound like anything unnormal. All they are doing is making sure that their material is used for a Positive outlook. Private use free of charge, printed material, “well only if you print what we want you to print otherwise never again etc”.

Dude, you already paid for the typhoons with your tax’s. why do you want to pay more 🙂

Same rules apply here in Australia. I have had to deal with the RAAF on some issues recently. They allowed me to go flying with the Roulettes for a few days. While I have a copy of the images, it is no secret that they are in fact Crown copyright as I was invited to participate etc etc. For them to be used in any way, I have to seek permission. I can not use them otherwise. Once Permission is granted. no money is paid and no money is allowed to be made from it by me.

It’s all about PR.

It is a common mis understanding that photographers make big money from pics of aircraft

I once had an Airshow tell me that for media Accrediatation I only had to pay them $110.

Considering that after I pay for Petrol and accomodation and then food, I declined. Went to Temora instead. Seems that Media access for a small period in Australia at some venues got very little attention. A side effect no doubt that every one with a camera started to apply for it. To the point that some people even offered to pay the Oranisers 10 percent of all sales. No idea what the organisers would have done with the $20 extra revenue earnt 😉

It’s for us to put a client ad together for approval. If it goes ahead they’ll probably supply their own image, but if I can sell yours to them I will do.

I think he was pretty upfront that the image is probably not going to be used. I would assume if it had gone to the next stage, a money value may have been negotiated. At which point the Photogrpher could proceed or not.