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An auspicious day!     posted on 10th of april, 2008

Today I reached 100 uploads, and coincidently, also 10 sales. This has been a long and sometimes frustrating road! Along the way I have learned that stock photography is quite a different beast from travel or just "pretty" shots. My natural tendency towards subtle muted lighting isn't very compatible with stock apparently!

It is fitting that this 100th upload is a background shot of asbestos shingles. Backgrounds have been my most successful acceptance category, although not my most successful sales category.

The most successful sales category? Let's break it down, although I agree that analyzing 10 sales is probably not too valuable.

Out of 10 sales, 6 were vertical, 4 horizontal in format. I tend to prefer vertical formats when I shoot so that is no surprise.

4 have water in them somewhere. Water always makes me feel better!

2 are religious in nature. Somehow I end up in a lot of churches and graveyards...

5 are travel or destination shots. I do a lot of this!

My personal favorite of the entire "sold" group is this South Padre Island shot. Those are my shoes, and this is the place that I drop them when I get down to the beach for my morning walk.


Tags: hooray hundred sales ten uploads

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Congrats on the 100 mark, I have been following you sense we both kind of went full swing around the same time, I have up 52 pictures, so you have left me in the dust per say...hahahaha. But is great to see a fellow Houstonian doing well. Keep up the great work...oh I am working on some photos right now that will be great for your Texas collection - posted by Moonb007 on April 11, 2008
Congrats Amy! Beautiful 100 uploads! - posted by Roberto1977 on April 10, 2008
Hi Amy,
congratulation to your first 100 images online.
Lets keep uploading....
Ciao, Holger - posted by Flatscreen on April 10, 2008

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