Please Excuse Me While I Clean My Lens

I wouldn't say I've abandoned microstock, but it has been pushed way to the backburner lately. I still have hopes of contributing a...

I really like the fact that Lee Torrens at Microstock Diaries shares all his earnings information with the general public. It really puts ...

At Shutterstock , apparently new images have quite a boost in the search priorities which almost always results in immediate sales right aft...

I've decided I shouldn't wait any longer for the review-based microstock sites like Shutterstock . After all, worst case I'd ha...

Ok, so let's say you shoot your kids on a white background for microstock and upload images to a few different microstock sites. Suppos...

Of the latest batch of 11 images that I submitted to Fotolia , only 3 were accepted! Some rejections I understand or at least can deal with...

This post has sat in my drafts long enough -- time to bang it out. Mostly, I'm just trying to outline my experiences with Fotolia and ...

I had my first sale at Dreamstime earlier this week -- the Stanford dish image above. It was the medium sized version too, meaning I got $...

I had my first microstock sale ever at Fotolia yesterday and it turns out to be the very first photo I uploaded to any microstock site! Of c...

I had a few more rejects from Dreamstime (12 of 16 images approved, 4 images pending) which are listed on this page. Also, of 19 submissio...

Dreamstime gave me my first refusal today for the Angry Blender image above, stating: We have reviewed your file and this is not quite wha...

There's a number of things I want to comment on related to microstock, so I'll just lump them all into one post. Currently I've ...

Selling images in microstock requires getting past a number of obstacles: You need to acquire an image (i.e. take the picture). You need to ...

I logged in to Dreamstime this morning and found that my first image was approved! 1 for 1, baby! Of course, one view and no sales = no mon...

Some my recent activities relating to MicroStock and ideas floating around in my grey matter: Approx 68 hours left until my first image is r...

I just uploaded my first image ( the snowy egret ). Mainly I chose it because it is one of my favorites and it seems pretty safe. Dreamstim...

My biggest concern with Microstock is microstock. Most sites prefer business people, happy families, etc. And I don't usually shoot th...

At Lorraine 's suggestion, I'm going to start with Dreamstime since they don't have an approval process; you can just start sub...

Photo Credit: Flickr user Guano So, is this topic just a ploy to get some Olympic photos on my blog? Well, yes. I do also have a point about...

I feel like all I've got is questions right now about this whole microstock thing. Let me list some out along with whatever answers I h...