Photocritic photography blog

We take our integrity very seriously - there’s no point in running a blog if you’ve been bought by The Man. I’m not doing this for the money (haha, if I was, I’d be bankrupt by now, running a photo blog is hardly a lucrative business), but at the same time, running this blog costs quite a bit of money, and even though we do occasionally get generous donations, it doesn’t even cover the running costs of the server and bandwidth.

I’m not made of money, and photography is a filthy expensive hobby, so I found myself faced with two options: Close down the Photocritic blog, or try to take measures to break even, so Photocritic isn’t costing me money, at least. At the moment (November 2006), I’m quite close to breaking even. Hell, I love writing for a big audience, and PC is read by over 75,000 people a month, so it’d be rude to turn all of you away!

Google AdSense

I’ve introduced Google AdSense contextual advertising. If you are reading an article about something that interests you, the advertising that is shown will be relevant to the article you are reading, and if/when you click on an advert, we are paid some money. I have no influence over what adverts are shown where.

Affiliate links

In addition Photocritic may occasionally use affiliate links on the website. In the interest of transparancy, we mark these clearly with ^al behind the link. The al link will be linking to this page, explaining what is going on.

When you click one of these links, we benefit in one way or another. Some times, we might get a cut of money you are spending with a retailer, we might get paid per click, or there might be other ways we benefit. If you want to learn more about Affiliate links, how they work, and all that, have a look at the Affiliate Marketing article on Wikipedia.

I will never sell out…

Don’t worry - I cannot be bought, and will never recommend products, services, or retailers I don’t trust and believe in. If a website happens to have an affiliate scheme and we are going to link to it anyway, we may as well use an affiliate link: If you decide to spend some money with them, then we get a small percentage, which goes towards improving the Photocritic blog.

And if I ever make money off Photocritic, rest assured that the money will be invested wisely into my beer fund :-)

Advertising on Photocritic

If you’re interested in advertising on Photocritic, contact me on hajejan@kamps.org.

Disclosure policy

This blog is a personal blog written and edited by me. For questions about this blog, please contact me, Haje Jan Kamps, on hajejan@kamps.org.

This blog accepts forms of cash advertising, sponsorship, paid insertions or other forms of compensation.

This blog abides by word of mouth marketing standards. We believe in honesty of relationship, opinion and identity. The compensation received may influence the advertising content, topics or posts made in this blog. That content, advertising space or post will be clearly identified as paid or sponsored content.

The owner(s) of this blog is not compensated to provide opinion on products, services, websites and various other topics. The views and opinions expressed on this blog are purely the blog owners. If we claim or appear to be experts on a certain topic or product or service area, we will only endorse products or services that we believe, based on our expertise, are worthy of such endorsement. Any product claim, statistic, quote or other representation about a product or service should be verified with the manufacturer or provider.

This blog does not contain any content which might present a conflict of interest.

- Haje Jan Kamps
Director, Editor, Chief Photographer, Programmer, and tea-boy of the massive 1-man machinery that is Photocritic.