I’m on a bit of a Power Week v2 right now.? I’m trying to find out how many images I can get uploaded in a week – from editing, keywording, uploading & submitting.

Here’s the issue – you run into bottlenecks, tie-ups – places that slow you down.? It doesn’t matter where that place is, somewhere along the line you will hit it if you’re fast enough.? Does anyone remember Power Week v1?? My bottleneck was not having enough images to process.? I could literally edit images faster than Sarah & I were shooting them.? I ran out of images after editing 400 in 3 days.

Fast forward to Power Week v2 – I’ve now got a backlog of almost 4,000 shots from our trip to edit & upload.? I will NOT run out of images this week.? So what now?

My internet upload speed.

I edited 200 images yesterday.? After about 4 hours of work on those same images today I had them ready to upload.? I pushed upload SIX hours ago.? I was out for a few hours this morning and pushed images at 6:30 pm.? It’s almost 1am and I am 31% done with my upload!!? According to this speed, if it stays constant, it will take anywhere from 19 to 24 hours to complete my UPLOAD.? In the meantime, I’ve already edited another 85 files.? By the end of that 19 hours, I should have another 150 to upload.? I am pushing the VERY limits of my upload speed.

I think my next post will focus on ALL of the steps in this process – so I can find & eliminate bottlenecks before this happens.? But for now, just know that if you submit 200 images to 123RF, Bigstock, Dreamstime, FeaturePics, Fotolia, ImageCatalog, MostPhotos, Shutterstock, StockXpert and Yaymicro at the same time, you will beuploading for a LONG time.

No image with this post – I’m too busy and too lazy at the same time.