Copyright Aid

Update- the photographer came back to me and said he wouldn't have charged me that much but then went on to say that it had cost him quite a bit to hire a car, buy petrol and take said photo and I (having thought permission would cost about £10 as I was not depriving him of further use of the photo ...

Thanks AndyJ. I did contact the newspaper and they said the photographer's company supplied the photo so it wasn't a case that the photo itself was so appealing but that it was supplied as fitting the requirement. (There is a similar photo every week in this particular property section of the paper ...

I saw a photo of rooftops in a national newspaper to illustrate an article that I would like to use as the basis for a painting. I don't do realism and I don't slavishly copy (I don't trace or use a grid) so the resulting painting would look less like the photo and more of an impression of the place ...