Sales in June 2014

I’m going to get back to posting more regularly on my blog – I know I have been a bit slow of late. I’ve been working hard on rewriting my book – now at 3rd Edition, and also working more in my day job which pays better than stock photography! Anyway, back to some information on how sales have been going. Unfortunately, June 2014 was not great – I ended up with just over $2000, with no particularly good results on any of the sites. Shutterstock failed to reach the $1000 mark again, iStock ended with $267, and Alamy was an unremarkable $116. Here is what the graph looks like for earnings over the past 3 years or so:

Growth in Earnings June 2014

My own site, BackyardStockPhotos had two sales, one for $20 and one small one for just $2:
$20 sale on BackyardStockPhotos.com
I did sell one small print on FineArtAmerica, for a profit of $32:

Space Shuttle over Washington DC

Remarkably, I sold $60 on MostPhotos, which must be a world record. Normally it has been $5 to $10, but I’ve been noticing more sales there recently. As I have said before, I used that site because it was easy to upload to, and you could download the original image – so it made a great backup site for your images. But now that sales are starting to appear, it is turning into a nice site.

Finally, Zoonar continues to impress me – after $158 last month, I earned just $30 this month, but that is much better than a lot of sites. Again, easy to upload to.

If you plan to join any of these sites, please check my links over on the left!