That was a $500 shot

A couple of months ago, someone left a comment on my flickr page.  Odd, I thought, some stranger claiming to be a part of an advertising agency wants to use my photo for an ad campaign, and pay me $500.  This sounds like a scam, somehow.

Then I got an email explaining the same thing in further detail, along with a number to call.  I called the number, and sure enough, a real person was offering me $500 for the use of my photo in a campaign for the New York City Office of Emergency Management.

“Does this sound like a satisfactory offer?  Will you allow us to use the photo?”

Who would refuse?  It’s weird though.  I mean, why my photo?  Why that photo, which I’ll be the first to admit, isn’t the greatest picture.  I mean, it’s practically blurry in parts.  Who am I to argue, though?  If you want to pay me for use of that photo, when there are hundreds of other better quality ones of flickr, go right ahead.  And anyway, don’t these people have some stock photo archive?  They’ve resorted to scouring flickr?  WTF, man? 

Well, I haven’t received the money yet, but now I have grounds to because the damn thing is actually on bus stops now.  Unbelievable!   Does this, along with the world renowned Bagel Brothers commercial I once starred in exhaust my 15 minutes of fame?  I hope not.

The best part about the whole thing, besides the obvious?  Every time I take a photo now, I mutter “That was a $500 shot”.  Maggie loves that.  I’m such an ass.