Dear Lloyd, The reason you are a portraitist is because you love it. Even when you are dancing around the studio beating out the flames you love it. Even when you are sitting in the baby poser morosely working your way through your second flagon of sweet sherry after the last of the screaming customers have departed you love it. Even the bit where your bank manager crosses the street to slap you is bliss.... I have finally figured out what to do to resolve the negative-copyright-personal appearance rights question, and it is such a simple technical matter that I am surprised that the resident experts of what is after all a technical advice list have not reccommended it. Richard, where are you ? Ryuji, are you asleep? The answer is to simply lay in a stock of plated brass sheet, iodine, bromine, and mercury - and take up classical daguerreotypy. I do hope I spelled that right - why couldn't the business have been developed by someone in a country with simple names. Like Fox or Talbot.... Think of it. One shot picture. One shot development. Product leaves studio, money stays, let 'em do what they like with it. Lose your picture, gotta come in for another one. Want extra copies for Christmas cards? Sit down, this may take an afternoon. Got your money, Honey? Never mind the Nervous Nellies who warn you about the effects of mercury exposure. I've been exposed to it for 38 years in my trade and it hasn't affected my ability to see a sort of a green halo around most objects.... Uncle Dick ============================================================================================================= To unsubscribe from this list, go to www.freelists.org and logon to your account (the same e-mail address and password you set-up when you subscribed,) and unsubscribe from there.