A woman looks down a long road, under storm clouds and at clearing skies over a sunrise, towards better times and success in a stock photo that could well [...]
An elephant at the bar...and an email campaign to promote my stock photography.
Leveraging Assets
I often find myself wondering why the world needs any more stock photos, and lamenting the [...]
Fear can be healthy if you harness the energy for motivation rather than letting it freeze you into inaction.
Tech Developments and Fear
I just watched an interview with [...]
Is stock photography now dead, or is the sky really the limit?
My Top 100 Selling Stock Photos
Over the last year my top 100 selling stock photos (out of [...]
Is the stock photo industry moving full-steam ahead, or is it a train wreck about to happen?
A Train Wreck About To Happen?
A lot of photographers see the stock photo [...]
A transitioning industry such as stock photography business results in a wild roller-coaster ride!
Stock Photographers, Agencies, And Clients Are Missing Out
Both stock photographers and stock agencies everywhere are missing [...]
Vibrant color, motion and energy from the streets of India are revealed in this striking image of daily life in Indian cities.
Seven different captures were combined in Photoshop to [...]
Aurora Photos has announced an iPhone stock photo collection. I read about it on Jim Pickerell’s site < http://www.selling-stock.com> during my just-completed trip to India. During the trip Nevada [...]
A tidal wave of pictures in a sea of imagery illustrates a glut of stock photos on the Internet.
A tidal wave of photos are flooding into the stock photo [...]
Getting great images in front of potential buyers is key to making money in stock photography.
The Conundrum Of Microstock
One of the fundamental problems in the stock photo industry, as [...]
A speaker is bombarded with rotten eggs and vegetables in a stock photo about the risks of putting yourself out there!
Putting yourself in the spotlight has risks and rewards. [...]
Building traffic is a long term endeavor that may hold the key for continued success in the photography market.
An Unpleasant Truth For Photographers
The recent sale of The Huffington Post [...]
Creating clips that can stand alone, as in this slow motion wine pour clip, may be important for motion stock success in the coming years.
Motion Stock
Recently I participated in [...]
The Stock Photography Market is in transition; Will the future see our stock photo revenue be coming or going?
The Merging of "Traditional" and "Microstock"
It is not only inevitable that [...]
Lol funny doctor-patient visit in which the physician's otoscope light goes in one of the vacuous patient's ears and out the other where it creates an oval of light [...]
Confusion and lack of clarity make decision-making and choices for the future of one's stock photo career difficult.
Social Networking, Stock Agencies and a Whole Lot of Images
I have recently [...]
An African American woman executive stands, briefcase in hand, on a long straight road watching a sunrise of possibilities
We create our own realities; see the future as bright and [...]
A tidal wave of change for businesses or individuals, with possibly dire circumstances, is illustrated with this picture of a wave about to hit a businessman
A tidal wave of [...]
The road ahead for stock photographers lies under storm clouds, but are those rays of optimsim and future success awaiting us?
I have compiled the advice offered to photographers from [...]
About The Photo: The above photograph was shot on a trip to Mongolia. In this case "The road ahead" is a rough one filled with pot holes! While the [...]
Value Added Stock Photography
After a couple of unexpected and rather invasive abdominal surgeries in the last year-and-a-half, four months ago I had a plastic surgeon perform an abdominoplasty (tummy [...]
iStockphoto has announced their intention to sell logos and it is causing quite a stir in the design community. I guess a lot of designers think that the low [...]
Opportunity, Success, The future
As I was coming out of Whole Foods tonight with six small red potatoes and two salmon (farmed) filets, I ran into a young photographer whom [...]
There are a couple of principles that I have built my photography business around, principles that just might help you land on your feet in tough times. Those principles [...]
The light at the end of the tunnel: the Internet.
Photographers are under duress
Most photographers feel under duress these days. Assignment photographers are feeling the stress of losing work to [...]
It seems that a lot of photographers have cut way back, or have stopped shooting stock altogether. I can understand that. Every time I turn around I hear bad [...]
When I first started out in the photography business the formula for success seemed very simple. Make great pictures and get them in front of potential buyers. That hasn't [...]
Someday there will be an ‘e-bay” of photography where consumers and businesses, designers and art directors, agencies and photo buyers will all go to find and license image for [...]