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...
A second year without much travel! It’s great to be a travel stock photographer who doesn’t get to go anywhere new, although as I explained in a post last month, capturing images in your hometown might be worthwhile! But in this annual review of my efforts in stock photography, I’ll see if the lack of new imagery impacted my earnings. Spoiler alert – yes… You have seen this annual chart before, but this shows how 2021 dropped off from the...
Another year comes around! So, firstly, a Happy New Year to you all and let’s hope that 2022 shows us some light at the end of the tunnel. December did not look like a great earning month right from the start, with a very slow few days, and although it picked up a little, I still ended up with $2309, which as this graph shows, is the lowest for 5 years, but when I checked in my stats, it is...
My good friend Alex (and his anonymous partner) recently posted a statistical analysis of the most profitable locations (major cities) for stock photography, taking their earnings in that city and the cost of living into account. Their top 3 cities turned out to be Seville, Jerusalem and Rio de Janeiro. Here is their main table (although you should go and read the rest of the article!) That got me thinking. Are those the best places for travel stock photography or...
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...
The November issue of my monthly reports on earnings from selling photos and videos online is out. OK, it is here, but that first sentence sounded more impressive! For quite some time I’ve been a bit displeased with the way the earnings were trending, but at last we have a break in the pattern with earnings of $2925. I’ll bump that up a little more as the story unfolds, but that is well above the $2425 I saw last month....
I only mention affiliate links to programs and products that I actually use and the Jixipix range of Apps falls into that category. As usual at the US Thanksgiving holiday, they are offering a sale of 45% off their products. I have the Pro Bundle, that includes impressionist painting, pastel colors, jigsaw designs and others, and I actually have the water color app as well which I use quite often. I’ve used them mainly for fine art stuff that I...
Interestingly, I received an email from Alamy this morning that said: We have been contacted by Merck and Co about this image. We initially explained that the images in question would be acceptable for editorial uses however Merck have responded to this to say that the images depict packaging and counterfeit medication not manufactured by them and therefore is not legitimate representation of their product, Molnupiravir event when depicted in an editorial context. They claim that this could lead to...
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...
October is supposed to be the start of the winter higher sales period after the summer slump, but, for me at least, that didn’t happen this month! Last October was a career best with $3900! I didn’t expect that, but equally, I didn’t expect a career low for October of $2457. As this graph shows, this is far lower than any of the previous 5 years and is either showing that the industry is in a terminal decline, or my...
