A few months back I received an email from Sarah Bryan. She is a travel writer who was writing a travel guide to North Carolina and needed photographs to illustrate her book. Even though she had traveled to various parts of the state, she did not have the prequisite photos for all areas. So like many enterprising people who need quick stock photographs, she turned to Flickr and search for photographs of North Carolina and that is how she found me.

I was pleasantly surprised to received an email inquiring about permissions to my photographs. She had selected quite a range of photos from the traveling I have done over the state not just from my home city of Winston-Salem. The only caveat was that as a bargain price book, she could not afford to pay me. I would receive full credit for the photos used as well as a copy of the book.

Now, this is not the first time I have been approached by various people or groups for use of my photographs. Most people can not afford to pay me but to that I have no problem. It is not my primary career nor was I hired to take photos of a certain place like I was a few years back when I was commissioned to take photographs of the First Baptist Church in downtown Winston-Salem.

So my photographs are now illustrating a blog on the Blue Ridge Parkway, a church fellowship blog, an annual report for the North Carolina Bar Association and an internal document for the Planning Commission for Houston Texas. My requirements are the same for all: proper attribution to me for the photograph and a copy of the document that contained the illustration.

For the book Moon North Carolina, available for purchase on Amazon, Sarah used three of my photos which curiously enough were not of Winston-Salem. Two were from Salisbury and one from Wrightsville Beach. But I do not mind. It is gratifying to see my photos in print and available for many to view now.

The original photo sources for the illustrations in the book are shown below: