
This week’s royalty free images of the week theme is Space! I give you the moon, the stars and … what the heck is that?
June 2011 was a fantastic month here at NiltoMil. Actually, it was my second best month ever. Now, for new readers – when I say ever, I joined stock agencies in 2006. So I’m at about 55 months and though I didn’t really begin stock work until early 2008 (39 months ago) to have my second highest earning month ever is pretty fabulous.
The total for the month, though not another $1k month like February, was $847.04
Highlights for the month include:
BME at 123RF for the 2nd time in 3 months. For …
Royalty free images of the week. This week’s theme is Texture!
This month should be the start of summer slowdown but without really doing a lot of new work, I’m up. I don’t know why, really.
I only seem to post these type of posts once a year but now is as good a time as any. If you’d like to follow along with NiltoMil without opening your browser to my page every single time:
I feel like I’m making slight progress lately. Alamy, iStock and some smaller stocks are progressing well.
When I license my own images directly I am looking for 3 things: 1. A fair commission rate. 2. A decent price. 3. No categories. Easy upload. Fair reviews.
It seems we can’t catch a break as microstock photographers. iStock took back many sales, Shutterstock is rejecting everything and Dreamstime slashed upload limits for contributors…
So I have a problem and I know it. I’m addicted to organization. How is this a problem? It means I can’t free flow and do the “right” thing – I have to do the organized thing. The way this relates to stock … (click read more!)