Perhaps the funny “featured image” will give the game away, but after buying a drone in December (a Mavic 2 Pro), I’ve been working on a double track – learn how to fly it safely and take some interesting photos and videos and secondly, learn all about the law and regulations around flying a drone commercially in the USA. Using the images and videos from a drone on stock agencies is definitely counted as commercial use and while I’m sure...
First, my apologies for a lack of posts recently! I hope you were able to get some images online for the first part of the CoronaVirus epidemic. I did a few shots – not too many as I was away on a photo shoot/conference/vacation which slowed me down. Friends of mine have also come up with some interesting takes on illustrating the impact of this. As always, you need to be thinking about the sort of articles and discussions you...
At long last I can add a new post to this website! And the lucky post is my review of earnings in January. It turned out to be a reasonable month in the end – most of the month seemed to be slow and behind what I would have expected, but there was a burst of activity towards the end that helped my results. The month ended with earnings from photos and videos combined of $2889. Not too bad at...
I’m really sorry for all the troubles that you will have had in accessing this site in the past week. I’ve been tearing my hair out with my hosting company, Inmotion, and as we got to day 6 and still had troubles, I finally moved the site to Bluehost instead. Depending on how long it takes for the internet to update the changes, you should be seeing this post on the new hosting company. Maybe I will write about my...
I’ve written before about the sky replacement capabilities of Luminar 4 from Skylum, although, of course, the program does much more than that. To be honest, I’m so used to Photoshop and Lightroom that I haven’t had the time or inclination to investigate its other features, but if you are looking for more “One-click” improvements to your images, I’m sure it can deliver! I’ve been playing with its sky replacement functions when I have either a concept in mind that...
I think I’m already a bit late with this one, but I have a feeling (and a big worry) that it will turn into the biggest story of 2020. As such, it could generate a demand for a whole range of illustrative images and videos. I’m talking about the corona virus epidemic in China. First, I suspect it is a lot worse than we know, and if it spreads in another country, it will be the subject of endless discussions...
I won’t do these every two days going forward, but I wanted to mention a few things on my mind as potential subjects. First though – check out the daily email from The Hustle. It’s a short email with interesting slants on technology and business news and often gives me things to consider as well as ideas for new stock shoots. There was a recent one about three big lawsuits building up – Google vs Oracle over open source code,...
2019 has now come and gone and its time to review how the stock business performed during the year. Overall, it was not too bad (and could certainly have been worse) as I ended up with total earnings of $35,595 compared with $35,790 in 2018. I would really have liked to continue with some growth over previous years, but the slow second half of December put paid to that. Here is the trend: As you can see from the above,...
I’m sure you have noticed some premium articles being published. I wanted to reassure readers that I will continue to post other items for general consumption as before. I’m not turning this blog into a subscription only website. I wanted to get a bit of premium content online, but I still plan to report on the 2019 annual results shortly and add more information on stock photography and videos going forward that everyone will be able to read.
I promised to update you with ideas that I have for new images. Most of these are ones that I haven’t got my own head round and so I will rarely have competing images, and I will also explain why I think it might be a good subject to try to illustrate. You will probably find that some of these are US specific, but as I mentioned yesterday I believe that the USA is probably the biggest single market for...
