getty images

As the sun rises on the West Coast, the news is not good - PhotoShelter, in an effort to sustain their PhotoShelter Personal Archive is closing the PhotoShelter Collection October 10th, according to sources.

Paul Melcher's blog - Thoughts of a Bohemian -Jupiter is Not Responding, talks about the decline in the Royalty-Free market:

Photographer Thomas Barwick produces a great deal of images.

Getty Images has 3,479 images available online via their Digital Vision brand, and other brands - including Photographer's Choice, where he may well have paid to put the images up.

So, you can add (as descibed here on the Time Life Archive page) to the "...

My colleague, Stan Rowin brought to our attention a Goldman Sachs slide about Getty Images (NYSE:

Getty Images (NYSE: GYI) is a lot of things.

Right now, they are on the chopping block, having just left the auction block.

I spent a good portion of yesterday, the day that the Getty Images (NYSE: GYI) sale to Hellman & Friedman was announced, contemplating the ramifications.

In between assignments, I fielded (and made) a number of calls about the aquisition.

Rumors fly left and right.

Google is buying the AOL news division once Time Warner does it's little breakup. Microsoft is buying Yahoo, or, post-no-go, now, it's Apple is buying Yahoo.

Lots of rumors.

How do these things potentially impact photographers?

Where do I start?

Or, better yet, when will it end?