Earnings from selling digital photos – June 2012

A very good month. I’m not sure how many posts I can make starting with those words, but June has blown all previous months out of the water and is up almost $150 over my May total to end with around $1750. I say around, as two sites are still down from the major storms in Northern Virginia last night – YayMicro and Cutcaster and so I can’t update the earnings from those two sites.

So, what was good about June? Shutterstock continued its steady earnings – I now get 38c a download as I have passed the milestone of $10,000 in lifetime earnings. I got 5 Enhanced License downloads in June and 7 single downloads of varying amounts. All told, Shutterstock came in at $605. Veer is often a very variable site for earnings, but this month I had an image that sold for $99.75 for unlimited reproduction, Multi-user, resale rights – the most I have ever earned on that site. Here is the image:
Crashing Waves at Sunset
Photocase is a very strange site – I only managed to get 3 images online, but one of them – a dolphin statue in Mazatlan – seems to sell from time to time. In June, I had one sale of that image for $58!
Some of the other sites are also doing well now – 123RF at $106, helped by a large sale of my favorite bengal kitten!
However, the star of the show this month was Alamy – with five sales to net a total of $248, to bring the last three months earnings to $650. After months when I used to get nothing from the site – this is really nice to see. I have tried much harder to get my keywords accurate and put some important relevant ones in the “main keywords” section, but I am not sure that is the answer to my success. I just hope it will continue! As an example of what sells on Alamy – this one sold for a net amount of $100:

Prickly Pear Cactus Flower


Here are my normal graphs – I’ve continued to upload regularly, although had more rejections from Shutterstock than normal this month, which is disappointing!
Growth in earnings from stock photography through June 2012

Growth in Earnings


Earnings from sale of digital photos on stock photography agencies June 2012

Annual earnings through June 2012


Earnings from sale of digital photos on stock photography agencies June 2012

Earnings in June 2012


Earnings from sale of digital photos on stock photography agencies June 2012

Files online June 2012


Earnings from sale of digital photos on stock photography agencies June 2012

Growth in Online Files

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