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the Microsoft Redmond Campus is part of Bellevue , Redmond , Microsoft Primary Redmond Campuses .
Interesting places in Microsoft Redmond Campus:
| Microsoft HQ | Building 25 | |
| Microsoft Building 26 | Building 35 | |
| Microsoft Way | Building 33 | |
| Microsoft Building 16 | Building 8 | |
| Building 10 | Microsoft Building 21 | |
| Microsoft Building 9 |
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Flickr Getty Deal to Be Limited to 2,500 Images at Launch (See Update Below)
Made by Thomas Hawk
I'm presently at the Microstock Pro Photo Summit in Redmond. Lise Gagne, one of the top iStockphoto sellers as well as an artistic director for iStockphoto just finished speaking. Joseph Jean Rolland Dube, iStockphoto's VP for Content Development is also on stage. I asked Gagne and Dube to provide some color on the upcoming Flickr/Getty deal. iStockphoto is a 100% Getty owned business. According to Dube, the Flickr deal had been in the works for a while before yesterday's announcement. At Getty the deal was code named Project Populace. Dube said that in it's initial launch the Flickr collection at Getty will only include 2,500 images hand selected by Getty Editors -- a tiny fraction of the images available at Flickr or for sale at Getty Images. The goal from Getty images perspective is to come up with a singularly different collection that is fresh, completely different, handpicked from the corpus of Flickr, said Dube. These images will have nothing to do with traditional stock photography or microstock. Given that, at least initially, this Getty Collection will only include 2,500 images I seriously wonder how meaningful or significant an effort this will be. It would seem to me that 2,500 images would hardly represent a meaningful economic effort to Getty, Yahoo or the photographers involved. It also makes me wonder how the community at Flickr might react to this deal. With likely far more photographers at Flickr interested than might be room at the inn for, I would suspect that many Flickr photographers who are not selected for this program might feel slighted at not being included. Even if the initiative only included a single image from 2,500 Flickr photographers, I'd think that there would still be many unsatisfied and very talented Flickr photographers left out in the cold. On Getty's website they claim that they serve up over 3.2 billion thumbnail images per month. 2,500 would seem to me to be a mere drop in the bucket in terms of what the company offers. After his presentation, I asked Dube if and when Getty's Flickr collection might be extended beyond 2,500 images and he would not comment. Dube would say that one of the big reasons for choosing Getty for the deal was that iStockphoto is one of the best companies in the world at clearing images. JIm Pickerell, who runs the site Selling Stock and publishes a stock industry newsletter also shared the stage with Gagne and Dube. Pickerell expressed concern that Getty might not want to spend the money or time editing Flickr's large collection and also suggested that existing Getty Pros would probably not like the Flickr deal because they have already been seeing declining sales and this would likely only create more competition for their images. Of course if Getty did not seriously allow very many Flickr images into their collection or gave them less than equal marketing footing this might not represent much of a threat to Getty Pros at all. Update: I just received a clarification email from Bridget Russell at Getty Images. According to Russell, the 2,500 photos at launch number that was presented today by Dube is not in fact correct. From Russell: You have in fact been given an incorrect number. We intend to launch our Flickr collection in the coming months with tens of thousands of images, with thousands more added to the collection each month.
Melina Mara, Washington Post
Made by Thomas Hawk
Melina Mara is a photojournalist who works for the Washington Post. She had some great stories about shooting Washington DC. On thing she emphasized was how much more closed our government has gotten to photographers in the past decade. According to Melina these days the photo press corp in Washington DC frequently are set way back, even further away from the action than the general public. Melina talked about the importance of integrity as a photo journalist in Washington. That you see, but you do not hear. In other words she said she has all kinds of information in her head that she's overheard while shooting politicians that her reporting colleagues try to get out of her but that she's always mum on. She talked about the fact that photojournalists today cannot shoot on the Capital Hill floor because years ago a politician complained about distracting flash. Her presentation made me feel for the struggle that it is to be a political photojournalist. I thought Melina's presentation was the best presentation at the Microsoft Pro Photo Summit yesterday.
2005 Chevrolet Aveo (US)
Made by skinnylawyer
A long weekend in Seattle and the Puget Sound region. I am starting off with a visit to Redmond, home of Microsoft Corporation and the US headquarters of Nintendo. This Daewoo-built Aveo is my rental for the weekend. Although the car is registered in California, I rented it locally. Driving up from Los Angeles in an Aveo does not seem like such an appetizing idea anyway. It was not exactly pleasant to drive, either, but at least its fuel economy, even in city driving, was near 30 MPG; only a hybrid would have done better.
Small Head Todd the Monster
Made by Todd.Schiele
A shadowy self portrait. I'm more and more amazed by the sun in the Northwest this time of year. We're seeing so much less rain and storminess than we usually do, but this picture was taken about 2:00 on a break at work. It's surprising how low the sun is so early in the afternoon. Of course, two weeks after this picture, the snow and ice and rain slammed us for 2 weeks. Record snowfall, I-5 closed between Seattle and Portland...lol. Don't be surprised by Northwest Weather. just expect anything, and enjoy it. :)
Microsoft at Sunset
Made by chuck.h
First attempt at HDR. Took this photo as I was leaving work on a Saturday at Microsoft. I drove out of the parking garage and saw this fantastic sunset over the soccer fields. I never published this shot before, because I couldn't portray the scene as my mind saw it. Using a couple tips from the HDR Tutorial by Trey Ratcliff I came up with this. I'm decently satisfied with it for now. Handheld, 3 bracket exposure at f/2.8 1/1600s 1/800s 1/400s
2010-06-08 DII Event: Doug Mahugh
Made by orcmid
[F101201] Hmm, a photograph of Dougerino without his camera showing. Taken during the pre-meeting breakfast, I think Doug was working on his welcome slides. I confess that I had more screen captures to splice into my slides and more review of the slides to perform while listening to the morning presentations myself. I was having stage-fright at the time I took this photograph, but once I focused on the event it was all better. There were fewer photographs to select these few from, though.
Natalie Dybisz, Miss Aneila
Made by Thomas Hawk
Natalie Dybisz publishes on Flickr as Miss Aneila. Her own website is here. She is one of Yesterday Natalie talked about her success on Flickr and the artistic exhibitions and sales that it has led to. Much of Natalie's work revolves around self portraiture and she talked about that as well as an upcoming book that she is looking to publish along with other female photographers of self portrait work.
*Updated* Office Space Bliss
Made by What has been seen, cannot be unseen!
Because the original was so popular (being stolen by several Wallpaper websites) I've decided to update office space Bliss to a more High definition version. The original was jpeggy and a bit rough, this one looks a bit smoother. Heres the Original: Please check out the new work on my Photostream: www.flickr.com/photos/burtgummer/ its interesting and smells good !
How much of the 45 Billion will I get????
Made by kellergraham
For having to endure Microsoft's purchase of Yahoo?? News Microsoft-Yahoo merger to get hard look from regulators - CBC News Microsoft tables $44.6-billion offer for Yahoo - CTV News
Daniel Sheehan
Made by Thomas Hawk
Believe it or not, in a entire room full of photographers at a conference about photography, me and this guy are the only two sitting in the front row doing some serious shooting. Update: talked to this photographer at the last break. His name is Daniel Sheehan and he's shooting the conference for Microsoft. His website is here: www.danielsheehan.com/
Blue Red Green
Made by Chicken®
and some yellow I was pretty busy this week but still managed to grab this series on my way back from lunch. I can take many weeks of rain for these glorious days inbetween :-) I will be MIA for the next two weeks, first DC and then Toronto. First time in DC, so I will try to catch some time outside of the convention center before the sun sets - not very hopeful though.
Microsoft Research TechFest 2007
Made by Laughing Squid
See the blog post for more info: Microsoft Research TechFest 2007 This photo is licensed under a Creative Commons license. If you use this photo, please list the photo credit as Scott Beale / Laughing Squid and link the credit to laughingsquid.com.
2010-06-08 DII Event: Chris Brotsos
Made by orcmid
[F101206] Microsoft Chris Brotsos presented along with Shelley Gu. Chris is on the InfoPath team. I tend to forget about InfoPath. It was valuable to be reminded how important digital signatures are in InfoPath use cases and how that is supported in the Office 2010 System also.
Please don't bother the geese
Made by douglas
You can find these gents all over the city, and absolutely nothing bothers them. I mean... if this were me, and I was like a whopping foot tall, and some giant machine of screeching metal destruction was anywhere near me... I could only dream of playing it this cool.
MS Snow
Made by Simonds
Snow came to Seattle last week messing up everything. Cold weather is keeping it around and making it feel very midwest around here. Took this shot early at the Microsoft athletic fields the day after the storm. Polarizer seemed to love this shot.
Nancy Pearl Action Figure
Made by B.K. Dewey
Nancy Pearl is my hero. I've always wanted the Nancy Pearl action figure but never wanted to spend my own money on it. Luckily for me, it was one of the White Elephant gifts at the office this year. Many thanks to Aaron who got the gift to me!
robin
Made by johannal
For 8 straight days this little guy kept smashing against my office window, fighting to get in, desperately flapping his wings, clawing against glass. No idea why he thinks he could. Even more baffling is the fact that he wanted in.
The BIG Day
Made by Simonds
We have launched. Years of hard work, pain and time away from family and now we get to watch the big marketing machine go to work. This was taken at the mini-party on campus where we watch the NY launch event on video screens.
Interpretations
Made by .Bala
The theme for the carving competition was Bugs. (free to interpret) Being the geeks that we are, one team made this. (No snide remarks about bugs and windows :P)... The pic to the left in the diptych apparently is a Core Dump
Take That Balmer
Made by hockeymandave
When you're in Redmond with a backpack, an Apple beanie, an iPhone, and a Mac, you simply can't resist. This was the result, enjoy! Seattle, Washington Journey Quickest photo to 100+ views, less than 2 days ago. 01/31/2010
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