Premium – more ideas for August 2021

My brain must be working overtime as I have been creating some of the images that I talked about in the previous posts, and came up with some different approaches as I worked on my concepts. Along the way, I uploaded some very simple shots of butterflies captured in our tiny front garden – unlikely to sell, perhaps, but I thought they were nice and colorful!

The first concept I worked on was the four day week. This doesn’t seem to be well covered in the main agencies although it is slightly difficult to search for as you get calendars that happen to have the number four in them. I don’t know if I have done enough to make it searchable – time will tell. I did a combination of simple shots:

Then I did a more complex one with tiny figures showing four days of labor:

With this one I used flash bounced off a white screen behind the calendar to make it a little more mysterious. I only have two figures that stand on their own and so I took two images and composited the workers into the empty days.

Then I started thinking about the recent announcement in the US and other countries about starting to offer a third booster vaccine for the mRNA versions of the vaccine. Not immediately obvious how to illustrate that and so I chose to use three syringes to illustrate the announcement. I’ve also just taken some more this morning using three fingers to show that a third shot will be needed. I used syringes still in their sterile packets to at least have some variations in the most recent imagess.

Sticking with the virus, I took a few images of the screen showing my negative Covid-19 test that I took last week. I also printed out the report and took a couple of shots of that. May come to nothing but it is always a good idea to take simple images of anything you get that might make the news and I hope this one might start to sell if and when the count of positive tests starts to decline.

My thinking about the current gulf between different groups of people in the USA and in other countries is that this is not going to go away in the near future and has a chance of becoming more violent, especially around election time. I can quite conceive of people taking their weapons to polling stations to deter certain voters from entering (the ones they disagree with) and so I created some images to try to illustrate that:

These days I create maybe 8 to 10 images for a concept, but I don’t upload them all at once. I upload a selection and then a couple of weeks later, I choose some more and get those online. It avoids the rejections for similars and perhaps increases the chance of my images being seen when the agencies promote newly uploaded images in the search results.

I think this concept of violence around elections (as well as the vast number of people who no longer believe the elections are fair any longer) will be a subject of many articles in the future and so I plan to continue to think of new approaches to illustrating this.

I also read an article where a number of people who work from home now are actually doing more than one job and are using difficulties in contacting them at home to enable them to earn two salaries but not really do either of the jobs very well. That would be interesting to illustrate, but having said that, I’m not sure that it will be the subject of too much debate – so there might not be much competition for images, but not much demand either.

That is all for now – I’ll write more as I think of more concepts!