[clarionite]

Well, I have a few different Ideas on how they would benefit, and how to promote it.

First and foremost, as far as promotion, would be for a link to view the images and download the screensaver from the main page of this site. There are many other sites that promote and give away screen savers also. I'd have to do more research and look at some other areas to get it out before commenting on specific sites though.

The idea of two small watermarks on the images is for the benefit of both the site and the photographer. The photographer's website in one corner, and courtesy of ShotCritic.com in another. In the setup of the screen saver, there could be a hyperlink to this site. And somewhere on this site, there could be a list of photographer's sites included in the package.

I don't use screensavers on my development machine either. But I know a ton of folks who do. As far as giving away work... Is that any different than posting them on this site? Promotion and exposure is a good thing. I was reading a thread on another site earlier today about someone getting slammed and liabled in a blog by an idiot. Instead of getting an order from the ISP to remove the site that was hosting this blob, he forwarded the pages mentioned in the blog to his main page. His view point was that traffic to the site was a good thing, and he wanted to control what they saw when they came in. He felt that by doing this, it just made the blogger look like the idiot he was and he got some free exposure.

I don't know if I agree with the addage that even bad publicity is good publicity, but I do believe that getting your work out there for others to see can only help your business. And to control what is put out and how it is presented is key to that.

So, if photographers from this site chose not to participate in this I can understand. But I really think it's a good Idea. So, I guess it's something that if folks take enough interest in I'll message RG and ask his permission to do so, and his help in getting it integrated into the site. Who knows, He might not even be interested in it being part of this site. But if there's not enough interest, there's no reason to even bother him with it.