Interesting point regarding the boring brochures stone cold 11.
It resonates !
Few years back when TC had whittled down their pool of Professional Freelance Travel Photogs to myself and an equally seasoned colleague in Barcelona, they asked us if they could send brochure production staff out on shoots with us, in order them to have a clearer understanding of how overseas shoots hung together.
We of course smelled a rat !
Over a period of time, the people they sent out started bringing low-level SLR's with them and snapping the odd shot over our respective shoulders.
Some time after, a TC insider informed us that the company had invested thousands in the latest all singing, all dancing photo-kit.
It was only a matter of time before the work dried up completely and the work was all being done in- house, by the very production staff that had been shadowing us for months.
Perhaps that is where the rot set in.
Sending kids in to do grown-up's work :-)
Still at it albeit. Loads of other clients out there !
El Grifo