Kivak becomes renown published photographer

I know I'm being very unfair to the wide and diverse fanbase of this blog by not allowing sufficient time for everybody to make comments on this week's other posts, but when you've got something to say, you've just gotta say it. And today I'd like to very proudly boast of my new status as a published photographer (or at least the first time I've been published since my newspaper days).

My portfolio of mammary and gynaecological landscapes was rebuffed by Mr Flint and his associates, and my regular contributions of jpeg and wmv files to spankyourownmonkey.com receive very few hits. But luckily I had my other collection of architectural examinations to fall back on. And as you see, I've taken the trouble of making sure you all know what lovely high-end glossy magazine now bears the Kivak stamp of quality. If you click on the second picture here it'll become large enough to make out which one is mine.

This experience tells me that it must be an absolute doddle being a magazine editor these days. When looking for appropriate photographs to accompany your article on any given topic, you simply type the subject into Flickr's search engine, and hey presto! there you have a range of mostly amateur images to choose from. All you have to do is send the owner a quick email asking for permission to use their image and all the hard work's done for you. Admittedly I was offered payment for this picture, but being the generous sort of fellow I am I thought more of the greater public good that would come from the philanthropic donation of the image to humanity than the potential personal gain. Bedrich and Our Man In Liberec should now be agog with the many possibilities raised by their membership of Flickr, although I note that the uploading of images to the Anička&Pepa site has dramatically fallen away since Week 4 or 5.