As you are probably aware, we have not been accepting new submissions via this group since last July.
We have now made the decision to make that closure permanent, and also close down the Discussion forum in this group.
We WILL be reviewing all of the images still in the pool over the next few weeks, so there will still be invitations going out for some of you to join the Flickr Collection on Getty Images. However we will NOT be notifying everyone of reviews, since we will be using a different system. So if you do not get an invitation in the next month, then unfortunately your submission in the pool has not been successful.
This does NOT mean we have stopped inviting new people to work with us. On the contrary, over the last few months we have invited more new contributors than ever before. We are just going about it a different way, more like the way we did in the beginning, with editors searching through Flickr for images in areas and subjects we are most in need of. So if you still want to participate, the two best things you can do are
1) Make sure your images are well captioned and tagged so that editors can find the images from the places and subjects they want.
2) In your Privacy & Permissions settings under “Make your photos eligible for invitation by Getty Images?” select “Enable the "Request to License" badge on my photos AND allow Getty Images editors to invite my photos”. That will allow editors to select your images and also allow any potential customers who see your photo on Flickr to request to license it through us.
If you have more general questions about Getty Images and Flickr, the group Getty Images on Flickr is still available, though you cannot make submissions there.
Thanks a lot for your interest, enthusiasm, and patience.