A few weeks ago, an email appeared in my inbox with the opening lines…
“Hello Marco,
I came across your website whilst I was looking for images of the sea.”
Ah…how much more romantic could that be? …looking for images of the sea. I started to hum an old Cure song and was whist away to years gone by where the sand and sea were more than a sunburn. Not that killing arabs would be much fun but it was the lyrics that took me back to my youth. All from a woman asking me if I had images of the sea.
Being my usual suspicious self, I came close to ignoring the email as I hate doing free stock research but her request was too specific. They were looking for shots of the ocean so they could use as a composite for a larger project they were working on.
Michelle from Printed Space Ltd, a company based in England, further explained they wanted blue water ocean shots as they were designing an ocean- theme print to be placed on a floor of a private home somewhere in Great Brittan. How intriguing. To hear the pitter-patter of a young lad on my silent image of the ocean. To see a dirty soccer jersey (ooops football kit) in one corner and a PS3 in the other, oh the dream.
Michelle and her design team had most of the other elements which make up the ocean but didn’t have, I would say, the sandwich to hold all the stuff inside. The comp they sent seems to show my ocean shot holding the sharks, reef, and snorkelers all together. Its a very impressive design and I’m excited to have contributed my work to the design. Now only to put my feet down on the actual floor plan…now that’s the challenge.
To be honest, I’d never would have thought to have a floor plan as such. I could only imagine stumbling home one evening only to find myself drowning in something other than my own sorrow. I clearly would never wake up or if I did, might I have the need to rename myself Jonah?
The image they liked was from my helicopter series over the Big island a few months ago.
My image was a complete outtake…but you never know when one’s outtake is someone else spot on image. No?
“Hey kid! Wipe your dirty feet!”