Plausible Picture: The group accepting the Hubble-relation distances is subdivided into two principal schools of thought. One school feels that a single or a binary core contains most of the mass. Theoretical calculations indicate that single "stars" with the required masses could be stable enough during sufficiently long periods of gravitational self-collapse to fit the observations.
Thus, one plausible picture of a typical quasar is that of a very rare condensation of matter several billion light years away in space, consisting of perhaps 10 million to 100 million solar masses of gas in a core a few light weeks in diameter, deriving energy both by contracting in its own gravitational field and, at least sporadically, by thermonuclear reactions.
The advantages to the buyer are obvious. Does it seem like a bad arrangement for the photographer? At first glance it might seem so, but when this same picture is sold over and over, perhaps fifty times in the course of years, the photographer eventually realizes a handsome total return for his effort in shooting the picture for stock sales.
That's why the stock picture photographer doesn't get rich quick, but enjoys a long-term income advantage for his work. Many a picture has earned, over a period of years, more than $1,000 in fees.
The picture was important because it constituted legal evidence. My would-be client didn't want to take a chance on entrusting this picture to just any photographer, because he was afraid the picture might be muffed.
I turned down the job for two reasons: first because I don't want my Camera to embarrass any woman and second because I didn't want to be dragged into court as a witness in the divorce case.
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