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...
And I’m not going to start this post by saying “Halloween”… I still read each article in both newspapers and online sources with the same thought in mind – is there something in this story that is going to become a bigger talking point in the future and, if so, how would journalists illustrate the story? Sometimes I see several things that intrigue me – other times not as many. Of course with so many articles being about the virus,...
I’ve been a bit indisposed of late and hence not my normal productive self. After two vaccinations and finally a booster shot about 10 days ago, I finally caught the virus. I wish I could have thought of some smart stock photo ideas of that event, but nothing came to me. My wife was first (and we are not at all sure where it came from as we are both mask wearers in public areas) and was quite ill for...
Another month and this time a real disappointment after two months where the Adobe Stock buyout offer resulted in some nice bumps to the income. Now we are seeing the new normal in the stock photography world and it really isn’t very pretty in my view. I still earned a pretty reasonable amount – $2502, but as the graph below shows, this is well below what I have seen in the same month for the past four years: As you...
This is going to be an article about things that I should have done, rather than images that I have actually taken! I’ve been in a somewhat lazy mood and while I keep thinking of concepts that could be created, I’ve not actually got up the enthusiasm to actually do them. And its not that sales generally have been poor – I’ve had some good high value sales this month. Just one of those things! So I’m afraid this post...
