Urban Snapshot #5852

Along S. Cicero Avenue, Chicago

Bridge Of Sighs

Train Bridge, Falls Of Ohip State Park.  Louisville area.

Bridge of Sighs

Medical Lake, Washington

Hazy Shade Of Winter

A cold, rainy day in January, 2005.  Silver Lake Park, Highland

Corner Post

Along a dirt road, near Medical Lake, Washington.

Cat Tails On The Palouse

Just outside Albion, Washington

Creepin' 'Round Your Back Door

Snowy Day

Lake Barkley State Resort Park, Cadez, KY

Down On The Tracks

Edwardsville Illinois.

Weathered Wood #555

One of several in a series.  I couldn't decide which I liked best....  Posted at a couple of locations:  here, LSquared Imaging, and at a couple of new sites for me:  FineArtAmerica and The World In Black And White...

Since 1920...

I had originally posted this at the LSquared Blog, in color version.  I had decided the color of the "For Sale" sign stood out better.  But I decided to try a monochrome version, amd a slightly tighter crop.

I like this one better.

Former Tourist Trap

Continental Divide, MN

Painted Desert National Park, Arizona

Compare with the "straight from the camera" version:

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Recent Sales, 7/28

One of my old, and silly, shots had a sale today at Shutterstock. This is a just a simple close up of a lampshade, taken in a hotel room, way back in August 2007:

I was taking shots around the hotel room, decided to try this, and lo and behod, it was accepted!! And has continued to have the occasional sale! This silly little shot is in my Top 20 at SS, in terms of number of sales. I also made a version with the color shifted to blue, and it has some sales also. And those hotel room shots have been strong performers for me overall. Go figure!

Microstock Photography - June 2008 Graphics

Yes, I'm an engineer. And that means I keep statistics. Here's a couple of graphs showing recent microstock performance. Now if I could just figure out what they MEAN.....


Above graph is total $$ sales per month, all sites combined. The red line is the 12-month rolling average trendline. Overall sales are pretty even, which is not too bad considering how little effort I've put into microstock over the past 6 months.

I have 6 sites where I'm "active". One of the things I track is what percent of business comes from the two biggies, compared to all the rest. In a perfect world, I'd like to see somewhere between 1/3 and 1/2 of my businees coming from the others. Not sure why, but that's what I'd like to see.

Anyway: Sales breakdown for June:
IS: 38.9% of sales
SS: 32.3% of sales
SX: 7.3% of sales (tie)
123RF: 7.3% of sales (tie)
FT: 7.3% of sales (tie)
DT: 6.8% of sales

ShutterStock - Where Do the Dollars Come From?

I did a quick analysis of earnings from ShutterSTock over the past 2.25 years:


Clearly, the bulk of earnings come in drips and drops, those tiny "25 a Day" sales (which used to be $0.25 per image, but now are $0.33). I've only had a couple of Enhanced sales, but they add up quickly (at $28.00 per). The On Demand sales are kind of new, it will be interesting to see how much they increase in ratio with time...

Not sure how other, more dedicated, microstockers measure up, but I'm going to ask at the Yahoo group...

Microstock Sales - $/image

All sites, combined:

Just looking at StockXpert:

Microstock Sales

This is a graph of my overall sales in microstock since I started, I February 2007.