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Stock photo examples –January 28,2012

Well,my new year resolution to post every week got forgotten last week! But I did have an excuse –I had to go to a conference in Hawaii and tacked a week’s working vacation (taking photographs) in Kauai onto the trip. Over 1400 images later,I am struggling to go through and edit the [...]

Ideas for Stock Photos –Jan 15 2012

I’m keeping up with my resolution to take and post new images every week!

Good shot

This first one was a real joy to produce. I saw a video on PhotographyTalk forum which showed how to get a shot of wine flowing from a bottle. His example was one where the wine appeared to [...]

Weekly examples of stock photos Jan 8

Last week I started with a New Year resolution to post once a week with some example stock images taken that week. I did this partly to keep the pressure on myself to take more images and I also hope it will be helpful to give you some ideas. This is the second week,but [...]

Latest Stock Photos

As I mentioned in the annual review,I did think about committing to a stock photo a day target for 2012,but decided against it –too much of a commitment! Instead,I will post,at least once a week,images that I have uploaded in the past seven days. I’m not saying that all [...]

Annual review of Microstock activities in 2011

I’ve just published my December stock photo earnings results,and thought it would be helpful to review the year –how I did,what changed,lessons learned and thoughts for 2012.

First,a graph of earnings per site through 2011:

Annual earnings in 2011

The December results showed the growth in earnings,but in [...]

Earnings in December from selling photos

The December results are pretty good,and also quite consistent from month to month. Although December obviously has two major holidays,and work tends to slow down in many offices,the final sales of $1188 are better than I expected. Shutterstock came in really well with a couple of Enhanced Licenses on Friday (of the [...]