Half-time update on selling photos in July

After a couple of poor months, July has been unusual, to say the least. The month started well with the purchase of the full rights to an image on Dreamstime, followed by a couple of enhanced sales on the following two days on Shutterstock – one of our bengal cat with a mournful expression and one of the city of Abu Dhabi. In the meantime, Pond5 came in with two sales from Kauai – one of the pier at Hanalei and the other of a rainbow in Waimea Canyon. Then I did one of my rare checks of Alamy, as I had not had a sale over there for many months. I was very pleased to see a royalty free sale of one of my images of a goldfinch eating from a garden feeder that sold for $196, which after the 40% commission to Alamy means that I end up with a payment of $118 for that image. So far so good! Finally, on 18 July I sold two footage shots on Shutterstock, one of the rolling waves off the coast of Kauai and one a zoom into a Foreclosure sign. To make life complete, that same day I also got another enhanced sale off Shutterstock for the same mournful bengal kitten shot. So far, things are looking up this month!

Bengal Kitten with sad look

Skyline of Abu Dhabi

Goldfinch on bird feeder