Bas Gerzon found an isolated version of one of our soccer fan photos in use inside a shop as decoration. A nice, unexpected, and novel use of one of our images!

More information will be added as soon as we learn more ourselves…

Recently, we conducted a brief search on the internet, to see if we could once again find any of our images in use. With success. Below, a few highlights and a word of gratitude to those who bought a license to our photos via one of our agents.

How did we find our images-in-use?

Usually, we use two various approaches to locate our images in use across the internet. One is TinEye, which has a very handy firefox plugin available. TinEye is a reverse image search engine, allowing you to find images on the web, that are a match to the one you submitted. Its searches are based on images or links to images, in stead of keywords and – phrases.

Another way is to use Google. The trick is, to exclude the images submitted to our agents from the search results. Google’s query options are the key here.

Our search strings are:

Corepics @ [agent] -site:[agent.com], where obviously the parts between brackets need to be replaced by the agent’s name and website address. We tend to repeat the search for each of our agents.

Some agens, such as Dreamtime, provide automated links to customers. It makes sense, to google for that exact phrase. In our case, this means to google for: “© Corepics Vof | Dreamstime.com“.Here, too, excluding the agent itself from the search results by adding -site:dreamstime.com narrows down the results nicely.

If this addition still isn’t enough to narrow down the search results to something relevant, adding terms such as:  photocredit , Credits or copyright to the search string might help.

When doing these searches yourself, you’ll find plenty of examples of cross branding, where if you google for one agency, you’ll end up with receiving the results for other – competing – agents, as well as plenty of results relating to partner sites. Also, you’ll uncover many breaches of license terms this way, so be prepared!

If you search for your images in a different way, please share; we, and our readers, do appreciate it!

The Sphere of Influence

One of our more elaborate photoshop manipulated images was used on the cover of T+D magazine‘s February issue. With special thanks to Jen Smith for contacting us!

Taxi!

Another nice one is the banner of a German taxi Company, featuring an image of our nightly drives:

National Institute of Standards and Technology

Considering our technical background, it’s always nice to see one of our images in a familiar context. In this case an article about supporting manufacturing growth through export.

More technology uses

During our quest, we found many more of our technology images in use, some of them up to several times on several websites. For example on Filtersource (left) and several PDF files (right)

Russian connection

The guys at Shkolazhizni seem to be enjoying our images too. We fount several of our photos on their website (1 | 2 | 3). According to Google Translate, they are used with rather adept article titles, too:

• ” How to make bucks from oil and cardboard? Success Secrets of billionaires“
• “ Learn English? As we were breaking the language barrier“
• “Whether to change homemade food at a restaurant?”

International Childrens Games 2011

Another – this time sports related – image was used on the main page of the official website of the international Childrens Games 2011, held in  Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada.

We did find many more since last post, on the internet, but also in print in magazines and newspapers, however, we’ll leave it at this for now, and conclude with how we go about our searches.

Interesting article on Money Week, on saving on your heating bills. The reference to keeping your socks on is, of course, our very own interpretation. But they did use our image from the fireplace series:

Yet again, found through TinEye. Thanks for using our image!

Incredible. Because someone didn’t have the cash (only €7,00, in stead of the required €17,00 for the fair, a 24 year old guy jumped out of a taxi, driving at 50km/h. Now there’s a darwin award well deserved!

We drove quite a bit harder when we took the image used to illustrate this article…

Read the original – german – article on the “Kleine Zeitung” website. (English translation)

A recent find of one of our images brought a smile to my face. A clever rework of one of our images, nicely done, too. Can you spot the difference?

We found the image using tineye‘s firefox plugin, extremely useful to find images being used around the web. The article itself can be found on disruptivebanking.com – thanks for purchasing our image!.

Our Restaurant shoot at Dijkers seems to be popping up everywhere. The latest find of one of our images is on an italian site, Fitnesspeople. Nice

The image in question was purchased from Dreamstime.

A google translation below the read more link, as usual!

Eat at the restaurant, never being conditioned by the diners at the table

At the table we are influenced by others in the choice of dishes and portions. Better to choose food according to our dietary needs.

Author: Arianna Bernardini (Mar, 12/01/2010)

When we go to the restaurant, the choice of plates and dishes that we order is not totally free, that does not only depend on our will. The preferences of our guests are able to condition, even if we do not realize it.
A sustainable, and a study published in the Journal of Consumer Research, designed and conducted by Alexandre Steyer of the Sorbonne in Paris and Pascale Quester, University of Adelaide, who examined the choice of dishes from the customers of Flam’s restaurant in Paris.
The two scholars have analyzed the behavior of people sitting around a table ordering dishes and drinks selection within a fixed price menu.
According to data collected, researchers have established that we tend to choose foods other than those ordered by our guests only when each of them chooses a different plate, or, conversely, when most people order the same scope.
Tend to follow the overwhelming choice if a mid-point percentage (between 30 and 70%) of people sitting at our table is oriented for the same dish.
A proof of the influence that others have on our choices of food to provide a study appeared recently in this journal.
An experiment conducted by American and Canadian researchers analyzed the behavior of 210 university students, who were asked to watch a video and use free snacks offered. Accompany each student during the movie there was an alleged relationship that, in fact, was an accomplice of the researchers. The girl’s task was to serve first and snacks to take on different portions each time.
As expected, it has been observed that the students adjust the amount of snacks eaten portions taken by the colleague.
Moreover, we know how the social contexts and the actions of others often influence the way we act. And this can happen even during meals should not surprise us.
The research described should make us aware of the mechanisms of imitation that can take when we eat together. And lead us to consciously choose the dishes and the portions that serve more to our health and that fall into our regular diet choices.
In short, to resist the temptation to impose throat that other diners will instead grant is a way to assert our individuality to the table.
Photo: © Corepix | Dreamstime.com

Last week, Restaurant Dijkers called us, to tell us about a full page ad for the Diner Jaarkaart in De Pers, a national newspaper, featuring one of our images, taken at the restaurant in Haarlem. After a quick call to Dinner Jaarkaart, to thank them for using our image, they kindly sent us the original ad as PDF.

Read more, and get 25% off dining out in the Netherlands…

Diner Jaarkaart appropriately mirrored the image to fit within the layout, looks great, don’t you think?

With a small touch of irony – it would’ve even better if Restaurant Dijkers, also affiliated with Diner Jaarkaart, would’ve been mentioned in the ad, too. Given the anonymity of microstock, that’s a little too much to expect, though. Hopefully, these mentions settles this unavoidable oversight!

Get 25% off eating out with the Dinner Jaarkaart – download the ad here, print it out, fill in the form and follow the instructions!

With special  thanks to Diner Jaarkaart, for sending us a copy of the advertisement!

A new type of use for our images: Motion. In a short You Tube film, a few of our images from the cliché shoot were used in a rather expressive way. See the film here. Kind of gloomy and depressing, but cool!

My Stock Photography currently features an article about Corepics, the way we work, and our current cliché challenge. With special thanks to Roberto for providing this opportunity! And what a great title! MicroRocks!

Read the full article on my stock photography here, and make sure to check out Roberto’s other articles, they’re great reading material, and a continuous source of news, trends and information

Also, don’t forget to vote for your favourite cliché!

Happy New Year! still sounds a bit premature, as it’s only September. But, I guess that’s exactly what our models felt like when we popped a few bottles of bubbly at 10.30am on a Tuesday in March. That’s when we staged this photo as part of our Wining and Dining shoot at Restaurant Dijkers.

If you’re already beginning to feel a slight panic, and the stress is mounting because you’re always lost for words on New Years Eve, Fear no more! The article features 9 tips for what to text your friends on 31 December. The full article (Spanish) can be found on Practicopedia.com. Googles translation is included after the read more link.

This image was yet again sourced through Dreamstime. Thanks to Practicopedia for purchasing the image, and providing the credits underneath the photo!

Original phrases in congratulating the new year
One more year, the crisis is the underlying theme

New Years Eve is one of the parties that increased volume of messages generated.

24/08/2009 – by STRANGELOVE
To congratulate the New Year is one of the oldest customs that exist and why we should try to be original and find new ways of doing it. Here are some of the messages for New Year thank you most fun.
1
The crisis. “With the crisis can only congratulate one of my friends 2010.
And she chose you.
I thought ugly and unpleasant for anyone else to remember!
Happy New Year ‘.
2
Pun. ‘That 2010 brings you everything you’re looking for and is 2010 times better than last year.
Happy New Year! ”
3
Joblessness. “To my new colleagues at the tail of Unemployment: Happy 2010.
WE CAN! ”
4
In honor of the Civil Guard. “Friends are like radar of the Civil Guard, though not always see them there.
Happy 2010! ”
5
The importance of saving. “With the crisis you have to save, so: Merry Christmas, Happy 2010, to bring you a lot of Kings, Happy Birthday and we talked for the next year 2011 ‘
6
Do not forget the SGAE. “In these days of peace and love SGAE reminds you that after 2010 everything related to Christmas is canon.
Thank you and Happy New Year! ”
7
A little green humor. “The ALC (Association of Cooked Prawns) reminds you that at this time there are more important to peel … Happy 2010!”
8
The Magi, always present. “New Decree Law of Christmas from now on, Balthazar will be the first in line (signed Obama).
Happy 2010! ”
9
Do not skimp on messages.
‘Hola todos / as this is an exclusive and personalized sms you / you / I send to you / you / you.
Happy New Year ‘