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The top image comes from Philadelphia – we shot with these three models and one other on our trip.? They are all fantastic models and we hope to shoot with them all again!? We’re actually shooting Ronice’s wedding in April? so we know we’ll see her soon at least.
The next image is Laura – one of the best “character” models we had on the trip for sure!? She did a number of different looks including this nautical theme.? I like the red, white & blue theme as well …

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While NiltoMil covers a wide variety of topics from SEO on Technorati to shooting with models, the main point of its existence is to document our progress from $0 to $1,000,000.? As such, the end of the year is a good time for 2008 wrap up and goal setting for next year.
As of December 31st, our total earnings will be just a shade over $6,500.? While a decent amount of money, we will not get to $1,000,000 with years like that.? Obviously there’s? a need to greatly …

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It?s always great when a project starts to gather momentum. I wanted to take a moment to AGAIN thank my blog readers for coming to see what I?m up to. I know the last month has been off but it?s going to get really exciting around here VERY soon. October 8th and counting!
There have been a few bits mentioned about NiltoMil.com that I think warrant posting about:
1) Image of the Day at Snapvillage for 100 Yard Dash – my #1 most popular image ever.
2) We?re doing an interview with Moodboard, …

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If you?re following our microstock TRIPS at http://www.wewillexplore.com you may already know this but we secured our first sponsor for the trip today. Pro Photo Rental has agreed to sponsor us with some gear for our trip in exchange for some images from their lenses and telling you & them what we think of the gear. This is great news! We?re going to have much more access to cool lenses & such as well as the ability to branch out of our ?normal? gear and shoot with some fun …

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Leaf had an interesting question in the Microstock Group Forum – What are your lifetime microstock goals?
Like many photographers, my goal would be to travel all over the world. I would love to have the resources to drop everything, fly to Europe and shoot for a month. I would like to see Africa, revisit the Great Wall of China, freeze my butt off in Alaska. Life is not a journey, it?s an experience. For me, traveling would be that ultimate experience.
My top places to visit, not in any particular order:
1 …