Always an interesting month – just 28 days, but it follows a usually slow start in January. This month followed that pattern with a growth from January, a growth over Feb 2020, but still a middle of the pack sort of performance. The final score was a total of $2812 for the month. This is all becoming very stable (which is good), but the growth of years gone by seems to have stopped. Not surprisingly, bearing in mind the pressure...
OK, you have uploaded your best work to your favorite Print on Demand site and are sitting waiting for sales – where are they? How long do you have to wait? I’ve been through those anxious days and although I am far from satisfied in my results, I am starting to see a little progress. My latest sale came last week with a framed 10 x 7.5 inch print of the Vietnam Women’s Memorial in Washington DC: I’m following a...
I’ve written about this a few times, the most recent being my attempts to push my images higher up the search order on Fine Art America. I don’t know if that made the difference, but I did sell two images at the end of January. This one as a 72 inch wide print: And then this one as a coffee mug: OK, I thought – that was interesting – perhaps I should continue to add images and do a bit...
I’ve been very slow this year on creating my own images (due to a focus on the Opera video and updating my stock presentation), but I have managed to add a few new images to try to capture the latest trends. As I mentioned last month, there is a big growing demand and interest in e-sports and I did talk about a very popular drink among gamers called GFuel and my order finally arrived a week or so back. So...
This month started very slowly and I thought this could be one of my worst months, but it ended with a bit of a bang and so crept into the middle of the road category of earnings! The bang was a sale of a 6 foot (almost 2m) wide print on wood of this panorama from Hanalei on the lovely island of Kauai: I received the email late on the 31 January and so it really made a difference to...
A few years back I did a presentation on Stock Photography to a camera club in Winchester, VA and put a video of it online. I updated the presentation and had a virtual zoom based session with a Northern Virginia meetup group last week and again, the session was recorded. The whole thing lasted 90 minutes including the questions, and so if you have that much spare time, you can find the video on my YouTube channel. I’ve also been...
I mentioned last month that I was trying to work on developing more traction on my Fine Art Portfolio on Fine Art America. I had around 800 images over there and as I have reported here, have had occasional sales. I tried an experiment to lower my prices, but that did nothing much at all, and so I put them back to more reasonable levels: Then, in early December, I decided to spend time trying to get more traffic to...
Time to look back at a very unusual year and not just in Stock Photography! It is fascinating to think about all the changes that we have lived through in just one year with some pretty major changes impacting us all in our profession (or hobby) of trying to make money from our photography. Of course the biggest change that impacted newer and smaller contributors significantly was the decision by Shutterstock, with little notice, to completely rework their contributor payout...
I got up this morning to work on my annual report of earnings from stock photography, but found that three of my hard drives were missing in Windows (and the BIOS). Back in March I built a new PC with the latest technology. However, the power supply was still in good shape so I reused that. I had some issues at the time because the new motherboard had two power sockets for the CPU and my power supply only had...
Another year, but perhaps not a very different year… Firstly, I was amazed at how badly the year has started at most of the agencies, Shutterstock in particular thanks to that terrible decision to reset everyone’s level on January 1st. I can’t believe the open way they are just boosting their income yet trying to say it is “good for creativity”. However, let’s see if we can come up with some new creative ideas for 2021 and start to make...
