In with the new year comes a new website for clients and photographers alike who are looking to hire a photographer, get a photography estimate, or just wanting to know what the current photography prices are in a specific area.

The National Photographer Group, llc, is behind this initiative to help merge photographer-seeking clients and photographers together into one forum where a client can use this single site to locate a photographer, get photography estimates, and find out the local rates of photographers anywhere in the United States.

Thenpg.com is the website... photographers will find the website easy to use as well as it to be a solid resource to find quality clients throughout the United States. What's more is that photographers will also be able to build a photography estimates based on the criteria the client has submitted to the site... thenpg.com uses a proprietary algorithm to assist photographers in knowing what their photography market is like. This is a one-of-a-kind website in this respect as no other website, or resource, has the data and algorithms to assist photographers in creating estimates.

thenpg.com also assists photographers in licensing their images... through a easy-to-use web interface, the photographer simply uploads images to the site where the images are embedded with a license code based on the information that the client and photographer have negotiated with each other, and a license is issued to the client for the specified period of time. At any time, the client can simply visit a special URL which will tell them all of the information about the license... furthermore, the client and photographer will be notified when the license is about to expire so that a re-negotiation, if needed, can be set up.

Photographers are given the tools to submit their images for an official copyright to the United States Library Of Congress, and since thenpg.com is an official third party of the client and photographer, thenpg.com becomes an extra resource for the photographer should litigation over the photographer's images come about.

Lance Fordham, Founder of the National Photographer Group, LLC, which is a company based in Orlando, Florida, said, "I have worked very hard to bring together a website which will assist both clients and photographers in their quest to create artistic works under a neutral umbrella in terms of standardizing the negotiation effort between the two parties. There are bigger plans in the future, but for right now, I think photographers and clients will find that the tools which are in place now will help move things along in a swift, efficient manner."