eBay: Original vintage photos of George Sellios' layout

Oops! I placed the wrong URL for the auction - here it is:

Bob Boudreau

The description on the auction pages mentions that:

Photos are no longer allowed to be taken during the rare occasions that the FS&M is open to the public

Does anyone know why not?

Presumably so that visitors won't be able to do what the e-Bay seller is doing.

I'd hazard a guess that Mr Sellios wants to make all the money from his layout, rather than share it with others, such as Mr Boudreau.

fl@liner

That's what I've heard on another forum. I look at it that my photos are an historical record of the F&SM layout early in its construction. George doesn't offer such photos so I don't see anything wrong with offering them to those who might be interested. He's not loosing out on my offering the photos.

Bob Boudreau

Bob has proven to be an expert modeler as much of his work has been featured in the model press over the years. Sell some of your photos Bob.

I think the only equitable arrangement would be to split the proceeds with Mr. Sellios. After all, the photographer was invited to see the layout, not make a profit from it.

"Railfan" wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@14g2000cws.googlegroups.com:

Tom:

Eh. I suppose you could say it was an invasion of privacy, but if the photos are just of the layout proper, then that's been shown many times

in the hobby press, so it's more-or-less public knowledge, at least to anybody interested in buying them. I question why anybody would be, if these are like most F&SM photos you see in the magazines, which tend to be straightforward layout-depiction photos, instead of the atmospheric ones that draw you into the modeled scene. I think I could quite easily see somebody buying photos in the latter category.

Cordially yours: Gerard P.