Microstock Adventures

Can i make money from my interest in photography and illustration? That's what i thought when i looked online a couple of years ago and ...

There were some delays in creating the mass of images for the later months of 2009 and beginning of 2010 that i wanted. Partly that was due ...

Signed up with 123RF a few months ago and have an appalling approval ratio. 26 files submitted and 18 rejected. Reason? None given. Just ...

By sharp comparison to the above http://www.stockxpert.com has been a dream to use. The upload process seems a little odd to start with as t...

35 images live and for sale on Dreamstime as of tonight. Not even a milestone really.. well maybe a mini-milestone. It certainly seemed a l...

Reply from 123rf: "Hi there, Connection problems could be a cause of this kind of situation whereby the images were not able to be ...

26th Jan 2010: Just signed up today with www.bigstockphoto.co m and am awaiting the first approvals. I was only allowed 15 to go for submis...

Looks like i will be doing some research tomorrow to find out what is needed to be approved for Veer. 10 submitted, 10 rejections. From th...

All 15 images approved at Bigstock today and will be live and online shortly. I will submit more tomorrow. ;-) Approval rating 100% (so f...

First month of the year over already and these are the updates along with earnings chart for the month: Bigstock accepted further 15 imag...

Well, i guess there was a good reason all images were being approved at lightening speed on StockExpert. That's because they sold out to...

So far Alamy has been ok to upload to. Until the other day i hadn't had a rejection although i also haven't had any sales. The ot...

I came up with an idea for an illustration based on the Olympic logo and thought after checking that it would be ok as an editorial on shutt...

What is up with Crestock ? I have been with them for quite a while and have a handful of photos approved with a few sales amounting to $2.75...

I hate to moan about rejections... we all get them. But when it's due to inconsistent reviewers at the same agency it's hard not to ...

Well it took them a while to get back to me regarding my question about the Olympic Rings illustration and why it was rejected. Seems my in...

Speedy reply from DT this morning: "Hello, Thank you for contacting us. As you can see in the refusal reason, the requirements for silh...

February was a better month again and the earnings total beat January with a total of £7.45 ($11.29). At long last a sale on Canstock. (Ac...

Just a quick mention about a matter regarding Canstock's keywording. I noticed on my images after logging in that my illustrations inc...

A little posting on my experiences with other stock sites i haven't mentioned very much, if at all, to date. Yaymicro : A nice clean loo...

I thought i would write a little about the books i have read to expand my understanding of the microstock business. It's not a massive l...

Well it took 8 weeks for them to review my initial 10 submissions but i am now approved at Stock Photo Pro with a 100 % AR to date. In fa...

Well, March was pretty good and better than Feb.  I had slightly less downloads on Shutterstock than i would have hoped for considering t...

This second book i would like to bring to your attention is " Digital Stock Photography - How to sell and shoot " - by Michal Hero...

I am considering not bothering to upload any more to ShutterFarm. It's been 2-3 weeks since i emailed them for the second time to ask ab...

Well, after getting four photographs approved a good 18 months ago and with this new found urge to get back into this micro-world i have bee...

OK, so this is the last book on the subject of creating images (in one form or another) that i wanted to share with you folks. Unless i buy ...

Had the first sales in the last couple of days at Fotolia and 123RF. Been a long time coming at 123RF. I do dislike Fotolia's credit sys...

Not much has happened lately. I have come to a crawl as far as uploads and haven't added anything new to the sites during April as yet. ...

I have lately started to get unauthorised emails pretending to be from twitter as well as spammers trying to add me to their twitter page ...

Well, as expected, April's total wasn't very impressive. Without uploading any new material for the whole of the month i didn't ...