As I write this, countries around the world are starting to experiment with opening up their businesses and activities. My particular area has not been heavily closed, and I’ve even managed to have two games of golf, but this change is opening up new ideas for stock photos to illustrate this next stage. I think there are lots of opportunities to think of here. A couple of trends will be important in my view. One will certainly be that people...
As I outlined in my end of April earnings report, I’ve managed to keep my earnings above water, with a lot of help from Coronavirus related imagery. In this post, I’ll walk through the sort of things that I’m working on now and what I’m thinking about for the upcoming months. As I’ve discussed before, I think this new state of affairs will be with us for a long time and we will just have to get used to some...
It is getting harder to remember life before the virus. I guess it is a month now since West Virginia officially started sheltering in place although I think I probably started a little time before that. And really, no end in sight to any semblance of getting back to normal life. I know I tend to be on the more pessimistic side of things but my current view is that we will not get anything like normality until the middle...
As you will have seen from my post yesterday about what I have been up to in early April, I’ve concentrated more and more on shots that I can create at home that I think will gain some traction during the current emergency. We are able to go out (but not in any groups) around my area, and so I did take a few drone shots when the weather was nice last week, but it is cold and miserable now...
As I explained earlier, all the news and most of the magazine/website articles for the foreseeable future will be all about the virus and its impact on life everywhere on the planet. I still see sales of travel images, but since the start of April, they have been somewhat fewer than before. Of course, you can’t really take many more travel shots, but it might be a time to go back through your portfolio and see if there are images...
What a difference a few weeks make! Just over a week ago I was about to go to Disneyworld with my family and now we are pretty much housebound as I am sure you are also experiencing. At least, as stock photographers, we have some income still coming in and our job is to see how to improve and increase that. As I mentioned before, I ignored my own advice to create and get coronavirus images online until I really...
Talk about being prescient. On January 26th I wrote this: 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 as well as major concerns. I’ve already ordered some 99% dust masks for potential subjects (and potential use!) and I think you could create many images and videos around that and the possible implications. Food...
I don’t know if I am happy or sad that most of my predictions in the earlier posts have come true. I hope you managed to create some suitable images and have got some traction. I must admit to a big failure on my part. I created a few using my face masks ordered from Amazon, but then went off on an overseas trip and have spent much more time working on processing those images and videos than I have...
Firstly, I have started adding “Premium” to the heading of these posts for members only so that others who see the emails about new posts on the site don’t waste their time visiting the post only to find out that they can’t read the whole thing. Thanks to one of my followers for pointing that out. It is hard to see anything in the news these days apart from corona virus stories – and quite a lot of those articles...
