Fotolia Blog USNews about stock photography, graphic art, web design and Fotolia knowledge baseAnd The Winner Is ...- February 28, 2008 Today we proudly present the winner of our 3 000 000th image competition. The contributor who uploaded most images in the 3 million seconds after our image 3 million is Mrs. Ana Liza S. Steiert from Berlin with the impressive number of 3,719 images. With Ana we found a particularly typical Fotolian who perfectly reflects what Fotolia is about. She was born 1965 in the Philippines. Following a career in the hotel and catering sector she has lived and worked in Macau, New Delhi, Dubai, Cairo and..http://blog.fotolia.com/us/news/contest/ana_liza_steiert.html Be my valentine- February 4, 2008 Like any tradition and superstition there are different sides of the story. One of the stories tells that St. Valentine was a Roman who broke the law and married people in secret. Another story tells that he was a priest that also cared for the sick. But in this story he was executed merely for his beliefs. And on the day he was to be executed (February 14) he had a visitor and gave her a note to reassure her that said "from your Valentine" -- this seems to be the origin of the tradition. So I.http://blog.fotolia.com/us/culture/valentine-_tradition-_supersti.html |