PJ. Morley

Well, not just models but photographers and make up artists amongst others. Model River is brand new and looking for models, photographers and make up artists to register. Registration is completely free and allows you to find models, find photographers and make up artists and make contacts through the forums.

Although it’s in beta stage at the minute, it is fully functional. You can add images your portfolio, add all of the usual important information in a very comprehensive resume of physical characteristics, work experience and conditions of employment etc.

There are models of the month as voted for by other members which gives the winning model their own high profile presence and a neat little feature where you can link your youtube and myspace videos directly into you profile.

Goto http://www.modelriver.com

Canon recently launched the Canon 2008 Euro competition and the voting period for images starts in just a few hours from now at 00:01 CET. I submitted an image of this tree nymph butterfly in the Macro category. If you think it’s a contender, I’d appreciate your vote on the image.

You can vote here or click on the image to take you to the vote.

Thanks in advance to anyone that votes.

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You may already know that images can purchased at rock bottom prices from the various microstock sites but did you know that many of them offer completely free images to download and use under their royalty free licence?

Try the offerings from the following sites. You may have to sign up to the site to get access to the images but that’s free as well and they change them for new ones on a regular basis.

iStockPhoto - Offers one free image per week

© aabejon iStockPhoto

Shutterstock - Double freebies are available here. Shutterstock give a free photo AND a free vector image every week.

© Sergei Didyk Shutterstock

Dreamstime - Not just one free image but well…. lots of them. Just click on the ‘Free Images’ tab at the top of the page. The quality is variable however so you may have to look through a few.

Fotolia - 10 free images at any given time are available and these seem to change on at least a daily basis.

So there are a few to be getting on with.