Close, but no cigar!

Last night I had a new message pop up on Flickr from someone who worked for an advertising agency, asking me to get in touch with them about a shot of mine. So, I sent them an e-mail getting in touch as requested. This morning I had a reply from them, they were interested in a photo that I took a couple of years ago of the Tyne Bridge:



Link to photo on Flickr can be found here

The agency were interested in buying the image rights, and using it in a national advertising campaign for a rail company. Their payment offer was more than I'd have expected, but the trade-off would be that it would no longer be my photo, I'd give up all rights to it.

Now, bearing in mind that it was a spur-of-the-moment snapshot that I'd taken whilst on a short break in Newcastle, I decided to get some advice from a photographer colleague of mine here at the University, and she essentially said "go for it". So I got back in touch with the agency to say that yes I was interested but wanted a little more info on which rights I would retain.

They replied an hour or so later I received a reply which said "I’m afraid the client has gone with another route".

Ah well, nothing ventured nothing gained!