I will be the first to admit that I have found Stock Photography less interesting in recent months and have been struggling to identify new trends coming up. As a result, my own uploads have diminished – perhaps 10 images last month! But my ideas for this Premium membership group have been lacking as well, I have thought. As a result, I think it best to close this initiative. If you wish to cancel your regular payment, just go to...
It is amazing to me that I have been able to keep this up for more than 2 years now, with one, or occasionally two or more posts every month. If only I had followed all my own ideas – I could have retired! This is a difficult month to forecast new concepts that might catch fire, when the news is full of the invasion of Ukraine. As I have mentioned in the past, only certain hot topics are suitable...
I’ve been busier on new concepts these past few weeks, although there was one that I thought about early on and did nothing about – the online game Wordle. I knew about it, knew that it was becoming something that people were talking about, but never got round to taking a few simple photos of the screen. As it turned out, much discussion in most newspapers and many, many sites around the web. So, an opportunity missed! Increasingly, I think...
Another month, another surge in cases of this virus! I’m still getting sales of my various covid related imagery and I have some new ideas for you this month. As you will remember from previous posts, you are looking for stories that have two main strands – they will be the subject of both news and comment-type articles and posts and they will need to be illustrated by something other than a straight editorial shot. One that comes to mind...
I hope that some of you had picked up the thoughts and approaches I have been discussing in previous posts and created some Omicron images as soon as the news of the new variant was announced. I think there was some good money to be made being the first in line with an appropriate image! I’ve got to admit that I was slow to the gate on this one – a friend of mine got a very simple image online...
After my relatively poor sales in October, this continues to feel like a poor year for stock photos, I’m afraid. Although I have had some good days this month, I’m halfway through a business day and my count (on Microstockr Pro) is $10.61! Not a good sign! As you probably know, I’ve been focusing more on selling photos as prints since the summer, with efforts in boosting my presence on social media. I think this is starting to pay off...
And I’m not going to start this post by saying “Halloween”… I still read each article in both newspapers and online sources with the same thought in mind – is there something in this story that is going to become a bigger talking point in the future and, if so, how would journalists illustrate the story? Sometimes I see several things that intrigue me – other times not as many. Of course with so many articles being about the virus,...
This is going to be an article about things that I should have done, rather than images that I have actually taken! I’ve been in a somewhat lazy mood and while I keep thinking of concepts that could be created, I’ve not actually got up the enthusiasm to actually do them. And its not that sales generally have been poor – I’ve had some good high value sales this month. Just one of those things! So I’m afraid this post...
My brain must be working overtime as I have been creating some of the images that I talked about in the previous posts, and came up with some different approaches as I worked on my concepts. Along the way, I uploaded some very simple shots of butterflies captured in our tiny front garden – unlikely to sell, perhaps, but I thought they were nice and colorful! The first concept I worked on was the four day week. This doesn’t seem...
It is that time of month when I stretch my brain to its limits and see what images I think might be in demand going forward. But perhaps I will start with what I have been working on, and why, and then move onto the new ideas. As you know, I am always on the lookout for something that will be in the news and discussion articles around the world, but not be “news” in the sense that journalists will...
