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One of my favorite stock photographers is Annie from Milleflore Images in Australia. I’ve known her since the early 2010s and have been constantly impressed by the skill and dedication that she applies to her stock photography and videography, particularly in the area of food photography. Not only does she style her images immaculately, but she also manages to infuse every image with the senses of smell and taste that you rarely get from a simple photograph of a plate...
Late again with this monthly report! But I have an excuse – I broke my wrist playing pickleball and then had to go to Kauai on a working vacation. Someone has to do it, I guess! And so, I have many more images to process and upload to the stock sites. The broken wrist did help expand my portfolio though: But back to January and earnings from stock photography and fine art prints. I ended the month with a total...
I’ve decided to write about keywording this morning. For some time, I’ve used the IMS Keyworder website application which allows you to insert a few keywords into their web page and then choose which images match your particular one and then select the keywords from that appear in the various stock agencies against those images. I found that you can quite quickly identify photographs which match your image and then quickly choose the keywords that you think match the image...
Another year goes by and another report of mine is late! My excuse – totaling these large numbers takes time! And one more diversion before we get into the meat of the report. Alex from Brutally Honest Stock has written a novel for his December/end of 2024 report. Definitely worth reading and an excellent summary of the state of the industry. December turned out to be pretty successful overall, but not because of stock earnings. I could see from Microstockr...
It has been quite some time since I updated my thoughts on how to sell your images as prints. I, of course, need to mention that I wrote an eBook about this and much of the information in that is still valuable (I believe) to anyone thinking of trying to sell their work as prints rather than stock photos. As I will report next week, December will likely turn out to be a pretty poor month in terms of stock...
I missed reporting earnings from Stock photo and Fine art sales last month, but I do have an excuse. We had just left on a cruise on the Nile River in Egypt with a side trip to Jordan. Plenty of photo opportunities, and I came back with 4000+ images, but I’m not very hopeful that it will be great for stock purposes. I’m not sure there is much of a market for such images, but I did have a great...
A full month here in Texas and I’m more settled and there are fewer boxes around. I even got my Epson 3880 printer installed as well, and so color prints are on the horizon! Weather can be a little boring: But onto the main subject with a quick diversion. Taras Kushnir has a survey for earnings and activities for stock photographers that he will analyze and publish on his blog. Worth completing to see how things are going in general...
As you know, I’ve been trying for the past 3 years to expand away from stock photography into the sale of my better photographs as prints via both Print on Demand sites and now with my own Etsy store. I’ve written about setting up this store in previous articles but on one of my trips to Austin looking for a new home I took the time to watch a webinar and a series of videos by the Craig Alexander academy....
I’m back with a very short update on sales from stock photography and from online sales of my work as prints. Why so long since I have been online on this site? Over the past couple of months, we have been getting our home in West Virginia ready for sale, looking for and buying a home in Austin Texas (actually Georgetown, TX) and then packing up, moving and starting to unpack in our new home. Quite an adventure and a...
A very belated report on my stock and fine art photography earnings in June 2024. I do have an excuse – we are moving to Austin, Texas in the next month or two and there has been a long list of things to do to buy a home there and start the process of selling my West Virginia home, including doing all the real estate photography – of course! But did the earnings in June make me smile? Yes and...
