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Key words in this issue: Changes | Your Car | Photobuyer Changes | Free Airline | Shooters | Legal Training | Field Guide | Sell Photos |

NEWSWORDS: Jamiroquai Suit | Kournikova vs. Penthouse | Lynching | PDN Contest | Apogee | Photo Editing | Scanners | 9-11 | Child Models |

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## PhotoAIM weekly newsletter for 05/18/02 ## 380c

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PhotoAIM, the weekly newsletter from PhotoSource

ISSN 1530-0511

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TAX TACTICS

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Your business vehicle

Q: Can I use my family car as a business vehicle and deduct certain expenses?

A. Yes, if, for instance, 10,000 of your family car's 20,000 miles per year is for taking your stock photos, you will get a deduction of 50% of all family car costs. The advantage: you may depreciate 50% of the family's car purchase prices as well as deduct 50% of insurance, tires, gas and oil, repairs, upkeep, etc.

Q: For tax purposes, does it make a difference what kind of vehicle I drive?

A. If used 100% for business the maximum for a business vehicle in 2002 is $3,060.00. The maximum allowed for a "truck" in 2002 is $24,000.00. Many stock photographers use a truck in their work. The IRS defines a "truck" as a vehicle built on a truck chassis with a gross weight over 6,000 pounds. If you own a SUV, it'll probably qualify.

Q: Does the IRS allow a deduction for commuting from my downtown studio to home and back?

A. No, but if you have your stock photography business at home, take advantage of the updated home-office deductions. You can have an office elsewhere and still deduct costs for the area of your home used exclusively and regularly for your business. The IRS allows a deduction for getting from one workplace to another. If you work in your home office where you perform tasks (filing, research, scanning, phoning, emails, billing, etc.) and then drive to your other office you are now driving "from one workplace to another." You've increased your business miles and the amount of your auto deduction.

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This week's featured photographer on PhotoSourceFolio: Jim Cronk :

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As a special service to our PhotoAIM subscribers, we provide you with a fresh, up-to-date list of photobuyers every month. Look for this list every third week of the month, to update or add contacts to your personal Market List.

CHANGES

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F&W PUBLICATIONS, former address: 1507 Dana Ave, Cincinnati OH 45207-1005; current address: 4700 E Galbraith Road, Cincinnati OH 45236.

JONES PUBLISHING (Box 5000, Lola WI 54945-5000) former contact: David Hipschman, Editor; current contact: Jennifer Julin, Publisher.

HOLT RINEHART & WINSTON (10801-3 N Mopac Expy, Austin TX 78759) Contact person Stephanie Morris, Assistant Photo Researcher. Former phone: 1 512 721-7000; current phone: 1 512 721-7135. Contact person Elisabeth McCoy, Photo Researcher. Former phone: 1 512 314-8526; current phone: 1 512 721-7152.

NORTH AMERICAN FISHERMAN (12301 Whitewater Dr Ste 260, Minnetonka MN 55343) Contact person Kurt Beckstrom, Managing Editor. Former phone: 1 612 988-7230; current phone: 1 800 843-6232.

GLENCOE/MCGRAW-HILL COMPANIES (8787 Orion Dr, Columbus OH 43240-4027) former contact and phone: Barbara Buchholz, Senior Photo Editor, 1 614 430-4298; current contact and phone: Paula Gear, Senior Photo Editor, 1 614 430-4297.

HOUSEN HOME CARE, former address: 11141 Georgia Ave Ste 326, Sliver Springs MD 20902-4658; current address: 2402 Sheraton St, Sliver Springs MD 20906-5010.

AVOID!

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(From Alan Klehr)

Ever heard of the "4 Free Airline Tickets" scam? In my earlier days, I almost got suckered into paying for one of those scams. There are many varieties of that game, but usually they give you the "free" tickets, but you have to pay for a week's worth of nights at one of their hotels, and you pay the "rack rate" or maybe even higher, who knows. When you do the math, it turns out you end up paying about the same amount had you bought your own tickets, and got the hotel for their usual discounted rate. But of course, on your own, you could stay at any hotel, not just theirs.

SHOOTERS

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Herb Gatewood received a notice that his photo of Brandywine Shoals Lighthouse was published as the April photo in the New Jersey Lighthouse 2003 Lighthouse Calendar, published by Down the Shores.

Larry Mulvehill has some of his Asia pictures featured in the May issue of Shutterbug. You can view the page layout at > http://www.larrymulvehill.com/sbug/sbug.htm <

Art Shay's 81st book, "Animals," is now out. His stage adaptation of his last book, "Album for an Age," will open in the ATC Theater, Chicago, directed by renowned Chicago director ( a Mamet trouper) Mike Nussbaum. It's called, "Where Have You Gone, Jimmy Stewart?" and is about WW2, photography, etc. ( Art was a navigator in Stewart's squadron). It opens Oct.25 for a week of previews, and then opens for a month 's run on November 4, 2002. The theater decor will be largely made up of some blow-ups of a selection Art's 1000 magazine covers.

Jeremy Hoare, will have his photos exhibited in Tokyo this month. Mr. Hoare, who travels worldwide and represents many magazines and book publishers, shares his insights and expertise as our PhotoStockNotes travel columnist.

GOOD STUFF

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AFGHANISTAN, LIFTING THE VEIL, is a compilation of photographs and text from Reuters award-winning journalists and photographers covering more than forty years of conflict in Afghanistan. Traveling throughout the cities and countryside of Afghanistan, over 25 experienced Reuters correspondents and photojournalists chart Afghan culture and turmoil. Covered are key moments in Aghanistan's history, including the Soviet occupation and rule by the Taliban. The book brings events right up to the present day, with the U.S.-led war against Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network and the Taliban, and reviews the future for the war-torn country. ($29.00; ISBN: 0-13-047951-9) Contact: Prentice Hall, One Lake St. Upper Saddle River, NJ 07458. Phone: 1 800 382-3419. Web:

LEGAL TRAINING. Learn how to survive in the legal system without a lawyer. Four Videos: Video #1 -- Introduction to Courts and Civil Procedure; Video #2 -- The Appeal Process - Representing Yourself; Video -- #3 Power and Pitfalls of Federal Court; Video #4 -- Preparing for Trial. $23.45 each.

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC PHOTOGRAPHY FIELD GUIDE: PEOPLE & PORTRAITS, by Robert Caputo. The Society has published new specialized field guides full of hints, tips and advice on how to make great pictures. ($21.95; ISBN: 0-7922-6499-1) Contact: National Geographic Books, 1145 17<sup>th</sup> St, N.W., Washington, DC 20036-4688.

QUOTE OF THE WEEK

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"If you speak the truth, have a foot in the stirrup."

-Turkish proverb

FREE THIS WEEK

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THIS WEEK'S WEB FEATURE

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Position yourself so that photo researchers come to you for your stock photography. It's easy. Join the PhotoSourceBank. Photobuyers use this directory of specific photos and photographers to find the pictures they need.

Watch for developments in the field of stock photography in PhotoAIM's

PHOTOGRAPHY IN THE NEWS

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You'll be the first to know…

Note: If the URL is long, it may extend to two lines. In that case - clicking on it won't work. Instead, "copy and paste" the URL.

New South confronts old lynching photographs

http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/05/10/lynching.exhibit/index.html

Call For Entries

New Book Prize In Photography Launched

http://www.pdn-pix.com/news/index.html

A free online magazine designed to inform and entertain photographers

of all ages and levels.

http://www.apogeephoto.com

Word processing for everyone? AbiWord: A free, cross-platform answer to Word

http://www.msnbc.com/news/751496.asp?0si=-#BODY

Photo editing 101: What software NOT to use

http://www.zdnet.com/anchordesk/stories/story/0,10738,2865139,00.html

Fire-sale scanners We rate a pair of sub-$100 scanners with high-end

features. Find out if these models suit your fancy.

http://www.zdnet.com/products/stories/reviews/0,4161,2865189,00.html

Photo Gallery -- Day of Infamy - Photographer Greg Betz was in New York City

on Sept. 11, 2001. Now, for the first time online, Business 2.0's gallery

hosts some of the images he captured in the wake of tradegy.

http://www.business2.com/gallery/0,2182,6,00.html?ref=cnet

HP's Imaging and Printing Roadmap

http://www.pcmag.com/article/0,2997,s=1489&a=26949,00.asp

Booted from Internet Explorer, RealNames to shut down RealNames Corp. is

shutting its alternative naming system for the World Wide Web after

Microsoft Corp. decided to stop incorporating the system in its Internet

Explorer browsers.

http://www.nandotimes.com/technology/story/400640p-3189582c.html

Too Broad a Ban on Child Models?

http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,52379,00.html

51 journalists who died covering the news in 2001 to be added to Journalists Memorial

http://www.freedomforum.org/templates/document.asp?documentID=16165

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