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2005
Subject: Hi
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2005
Subject: Pictures
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005
I hope this message finds you well. Your photographs (on your website) are awesome! I was wondering if you would mind if I used one or two as the background on my PC? Please let me know.
Warm regards,
Ben, United Kingdom
Subject: Dharamsala
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005
I first wanted to tell you that your pictures are absolutely beautiful. I especially like the people of India. My friend and I were wanting to go to Dharamsala to do some volunteer work (teaching English, working in an orphanage). I have read on the US dept of state website that the area of Kashmir and the India-Pakistan border is unsafe. In your opinion, is the town of Dharamsala very safe?
Thank you,
Dianna
Subject: Permission to use images
Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2005
Namaste!
My name is Bhavit M from London and I am involved in making a souvenir book for a temple opening in Porbandar, Gujarat next February. The temple has been inspired by the famous saint Bhaishri Rameshbhai Oza. See site: www.sandipani.org/mahotav
I would like to use some of the beautiful photographs you have taken of temples. Would it be possible to get higher resolution images so that print quality is good? The entire project is a non-profit making one and this book is totally non-commercial (no adverts and not to be sold, only distributed free of charge to devotees attending the opening Mahotsav). Hence, we have very little budget, from which we would be glad to make a small contribution that you can put towards any good cause of your choice (as requested on your website).
If it is possible to get higher res images, please let me know and I will inform you of which photos I am hoping to use. We would most certainly acknowledge you in the book and also send you a copy by post.
Look forward to hearing from you soon.
With warmest wishes,
Bhavit
Subject: Website
Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2005
Dear Shunya,
Your website is just amazing. I spent much time on it this evening and was so impressed by your beautiful pictures and your breadth of travel. I wonder if it would be OK with you to put your site on my website as a very interesting link. I hope you will have a little time also to look at my pictures.
Best wishes
Kim
Subject: Use of photographs
Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005
I found your website while searching for some qualitative pictures of Syria. I've been to the country myself earlier this year and am currently preparing to print my travel diary. Unfortunately my camera was broken during my visit to Syria w/out me noticing it, thus, I only have a few pictures of use.
I really do like your photographs a lot and therefore would like to ask you, if it was fine w/ you to use them for my diary. The diary is not for commercial purpose; I'll only print and distribute it within my family and among friends (about 30 copies). As a matter of course, the source of the pictures, that is your name will be put down and if wanted, I'll forward a voucher copy to you. The text will be in German though. I can asure you, that it's content is politically correct and free of racist or prejudiced remarks.
Since I might also publish my travel description on the net, I'd like to know, if I were allowed using your photos w/ link connection to my site as well. Naturally, your copyright will be mentioned accordingly and I would inform you when the site is going online.
Thanks in advance for your response.
Kind regards
Ina
Subject: Terms of use for your pictures
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005
I was browsing through the internet and came across your site. You have an amazing set of pictures (especially for India) on your website. I would like to use one of the pictures for a website that I am developing. It’s being developed by a non-profit Organization under University of Maryland which has a free access to many different Language Resources. If you want you can visit the website at www.langnet.umd.edu. We are redesigning the website and would like to use some of the pictures from your website.
Can you please send me all the details of the conditions for using the pictures on this website. I will appreciate an early reply. Thank you,
P, National Foreign Language Center
University of Maryland, College Park
Subject: Pictures
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005
I am at work researching new ideas for our website and I want to let you know that your site looks good, you have great pictures. The photographs that I saw were amazing and breath-taking.
I work for a company that offers giraffe home décor, stuffed animals, fine jewelry and chocolates. When I saw your website, I thought that maybe you would have an interest in the things that we offer. I appreciate the work put into this website and I hope that you will look into ours. Thanks
Chelsea
Call Center Representative, https://www.wildlifegifts.com
Subject: Astounding Pics
Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2005
Hello Mr Shunya,
Was just google-ing on the web when I came across your webpage .. Was really amazed to see such a huge collection of some of the most beautiful places in the world clicked by You ..Some thing really astounding .. I especially liked the Sunset and landscape pics .. Nevertheless all pics depicting emotions are also superbly taken .. Like the depth of Focus. Will be browsing through your images to see all of them ..
Subject: Picture permission
Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2005
I just found the following picture on your website. It is an excellent picture, and I would be interested in including it in my PowerPoint presentation, in which I shortly will mention the thoughts of elderly people. The presentation will be held in our church. I would be thankful if you could give me the necessary permissions. The lecture is non-profit and the presentation will not be distributed commercially.
With best regards,
G Erbes
Austria
Subject: Diwali Photos
Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2005
Subject: Very Important
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005
Subject: Authorization to use some of the pictures
Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2005
Subject: Permission to use photograph
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005
I would be grateful if you could let us have permission to use the photograph Kasinga Channel Fishermen which I found when searching the internet on the Google site. This will be used for the publication Sexual Health Exchange. This is a publication sent free of charge to individuals and NGO organizations in developing countries. I look forward to hearing from you.
Ms. DT, Information & Library Services
Royal Tropical Institute (KIT)
The Netherlands
Subject: Image permission
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005
I came upon your excellent site while searching for images of Sufi dancing. I am editor of Pan, the magazine of World Pantheism, a small eco-spiritual
non-profit "shoestring" outfit :) I was wowed by your images of nature and culture and would like the opportunity to use some of them them in our magazine and our websites, with the appropriate copyright notice: © 2005 Shunya.
You can check us out at www.pantheism.net, I can't be sure, but to judge by your choices under "Food for thought" we might be something that might interest you. We are completely naturalistic and nature-oriented - our views go under several other names such as religious naturalism, naturalistic spirituality, eco-humanism etc. We are not evangelistic or missionary.
Best wishes and keep up the good work,
P Harrison
Subject: Pack trips in Brazil
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005
Loved your article on Pantanal ... [Do] you happen to have a web site that lists working ranches in Brazil where I could stay and ride horses for a week or so...
A Cleminson, Gambier Island, BC, Canada
Subject: writings
Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005
I was directed to your site through your article about Peru/Inca ... in “Destination”. What a splendid elaboration!!!! Nicely written.
This one of the best site which I have ever visited.
Regards,
Ajith, Botswana
Subject: request pictures for non-profit project
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005
Dear Mr. Shunya,
My name is G Mendoza. I am working for Luna Media, a small non-profit video company based in San Francisco. If you would like to read about our previous project _Hope_, see this article from the Apple website.
We're interested in socially progressive themes and ideas, and we are currently working on doing the video for a museum exhibit on the African diaspora. The exhibit involves tracing the movements, geographical and social, of humans from 200,000 years ago to the present. This will be done in a three minute video montage of stills and moving pictures, and we are interested in using the following pictures of yours (in digital form): landscape15, in the Tanzania Serengeti landscapes series; and PyramidsGiza1, in the Memphis, Egypt series.
The museum where the exhibit will be displayed is a small, non-profit educational museum, which will be opening in San Francisco in December, the Museum of the African Diaspora. This piece would be part of their permanent collection.
We appreciate any help you can give us. [...]
Sincerely,
G Mendoza
Subject: Cusco-Machu Picchu Diary
Date: Sun, 03 July 2005
In planning a Sept. trip to Peru I ran into your writings of your 1994 trip. I was enthralled. You write wonderfully! I felt abandoned that you did not take us on to Arequipa with you. Felt as though you left me standing at the train station in Cusco watching you take my eyes and ears with you as you left. Thanks for the look at Peru through your wonderfully observant and humorous eyes!!!!
Sincerely,
Doug, Minneapolis, USA
Subject: Novaya Zemlya
Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2005
I would like to know how you got to these northern places, especially Svalbard and Novaya Zemlya. Was it difficult to find information to travel there? And/or expensive? Your pictures are beautiful. I especially love this one.
Thank you.
Jessica
Subject: Photo permission
Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2005
I’m writing to ask permission to use one of the beautiful pictures on your site. I would like to use it on a backdrop at an event Senator Boxer is doing on protecting our oceans this Thursday. Obviously, the event is not for profit, and the picture will just be used once.
Thanks,
-Lisa P
Democratic Communications Center
619 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
Subject: Himalayan photos
Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2005
The [new Himalayan] photos are fabulous. Really incredible ... thought about marketing them?
R, USA
Subject: your site!!
Date: Mon, 30 May 2005
hello there.. i have to say i was amazed at the great collections in the site and sent it to all my friends who are into photography, the experience of browsing the site feels like touring the world online!!
however i need to tell ya something, the photo added to the people photos with that woman with deformed eye.. what beauty do u find in this shot, people seeking the landscape and special photographs in your site would be certainly irritated when they see this one, the site's not about terrorism or medical treatment or eye diseases or any of the sort.. people expect beauty and this photo is a great disappointment, i found myself soo sick and left the site when i saw it and i don't think this will be my personal reaction.. so that's just a hint..
good luck
XXX, Egypt (architecture student/poet and play writer/music reviewer/ex art reporter)
Subject: GREETINGS FROM KENYA
Date: Wed, 18 May 2005
I am a teacher of fine art in mombasa, kenya, east africa. I enjoyed your website immensely. Ah, all the photos and text are amazing! Please tell me about yourself. You write so well. I am a muslim, Baluchi, originally from Iran but I am a 3rd generation Kenyan. I enjoy travelling, painting and reading travelogues. I hold a BSc. degree in Biochemistry. I shall be very grateful to hear from you. Regards.
Subject: Request for picture use
Date: Tue, 05 May 2005
We publish textbooks for schoolchildren. We are looking for a few nice coloured pictures of Greece, mainly the Acropolis of Athens, the Parthenon and the Theatre of Epidaurus, to print in our books. We really liked some of the pictures on your site and would like to use a few if you allowed us ... The books in which we intend to print the pictures will be priced at about Rs 100 (US $ 2 appx).
Hope you will be able to help us. Looking forward to hearing from you.
Sincerely,
XXX (For Bharati Bhawan Publishers & Distributors, India)
Subject: Sariska NP
Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005
I have seen your marvelous pictures from Sariska National Park. I plan to make a short visit to this park this October - it is conveniently located on my way from Jaisalmer to Delhi. But I have found it very difficult to get any first-hand experience form this park. Could you please be so kind and share your experience?
I have never been so much after seeing a tiger and so I do not mind that much their apparent disappearance there (although very sad). I would just like to get a feel of Indian nature, see the forest and other kinds of unspoiled nature and see and hear some animals and birds. I would have about two days to do it in Sariska. What are my options?
Normally, I prefer moving on foot in parks as the best way to meet the nature. Is this possible in Sariska? Where can I find a good and reliable guide to show me nice representative places? Do you have any names and e-mail addresses? What place or trail would you recommend? Also, I have read about a possibility to rent a "hide" from evening at some waterhole (I know, October is not a good timing) and spent a night in it. It sounds as a good way to get some feel of nature there (voices of jungle and so ..). Is it really possible and where and how to do it?
Of course, normal way it to hire a jeep and make some tour of the park. Where to rent a jeep and what are good roads to take? I have read that it may be easier to make Alwar my base and rent jeeps and guides there - it was written that it may be too many other people trying to get these services at Sariska itself. What do you think about that? And, last but not least what expenses I should expect - in general, I am travelling on low budget but do not mind to spent more for some reasonable experience and memories to take home with me.
I am sorry for this long message but it seems to be impossible to get any reliable, unbiased, and first-hand information about Sariska. Thank you very much in advance for your time and any help you may offer.
Best regards,
Vaclav
Subject: request
Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005
I was privileged to enter your website and was so thankful of it. Absolutely professional pixs and enormous amount of information that is so relevant and interesting. I am writing to seek your permission to use some of the photos taken on Singapore [for] a mini video clip to invite a group of Chinese students from Beijing for cross-cultural performances in Singapore.
Can I pls? Thanks
Serene
Subject: East Africa Pictures
Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2005
... Saw the [Tanzania & Uganda] pictures yesterday, they are awesome... fantastic!
I really enjoyed the wildlife pics and [my wife and I] were completely enchanted by the Zanzibar pics, as they have something almost magical about them. I have no doubt from the pics that some of your best people experiences must have been in Zanzibar ...
All the Acacias, lions, birds, antelopes, elephants and the funny monkeys made great pictures too. Really liked the landscape shots in Serengeti and Ngorongoro!
... Keep at it man! I am sure that your photos provide countless hours of inspiration to many cubicle trapped denizens around the world.
A, California
Subject: image 'noria wheel'
Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2005
To whom it may concern.
We are a company in Hamburg/Germany of exhibition designers with a focus on interactive exhibitions with technical or scientific content. On behalf of the engineering company Danfoss AS in Nordborg/Denmark we are currently designing the attractions for an interactive science park in Denmark. The park covers roughly 3.5 ha with several indoor and outdoor areas. It is a park for families and kids, with a specific focus on the target group of eight to fifteen-year-olds.
For one of our exhibits we are on the search for a suitable image of a noria wheel. We have found the image in the attachment on your website.
We would like to use it in the science park. Is it possible to get this image with the following image sizes?
12 x 8,5 cm, 240 dpi, approx. 1200 x 800 Pixel.
What does it look like actually with the rights? We need the rights for 10 years. How much would this be?
Thanks a lot in advance.
With kind regards,
Dragana Vukovic
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Kunstraum GfK mbH . vivid exhibitions
Niendorfer Weg 11 . D-22453 Hamburg
Subject: Your site
Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005
I can't tell you how much I love your site and pictures. They are absolutely phenomenal. I want to be a professional photographer. I was very curious about what camera(s) and film you used in especially your India pictures. Did you get a degree in art or did you just start making a living (which I assume you do) with your camera? I am so impressed with your work. You are my inspiration.
Thanks for your time, and I'm looking forward to your reply.
Briana
Subject: wonderful
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2005
dear sir
your site is so beautiful and informative. thank you for viewing such site.
i'm a graduate in photography and got interest in graphic design.
thank you sir
augustus
Subject: Your photography
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2005
Hello Shunya,
Nice photography (an expansive corpus).
I understand the investment of time and energy required to produce such photographs.
Cordially,
Jacob