I Think I Should Move To The Beach

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posted on 14th of october, 2011

I was reviewing my portfolios on various sites to see which images were working best for me and clearly it's my nautical images. Lighthouses have been an especially good subject for me, and along with boats and other images of the sea, they account for over half my total stock photo sales.

I found this one from Nantucket in a slide show on the site of Budget Travel magazine for September licensed from Dreamstime in an article called Charming Fall Islands. It's no. 13 in the slideshow

Other DT contributors include Chris Yenney (couldn't find the photo on DT), Jiawangkun, William Perry, and Balloonguy. Here are their photos:

The photo of mine they licensed was also in the Daily Telegraph (UK) earlier this year, and this month another of my stock photos (of boats in Rockland Maine) was in Coastal Living magazine. Glad I took some more lighthouse photos in Iceland and Florida in August. Hope to get them up here soon! (I'm way behind on my plan to hit 1,000 images on DT in the next year. Taking a lot - was in California last week - more beaches! - but no time to process and post them!)

I actually grew up an an island, so perhaps that's why the sea is my favorite subject.
Here are some of the other nautical images I licensed in September from Westerley, Rhode Island (middle) and the other two from Maine :

And my two newest uploads are beach photos from Newport, Rhode Island:

I'd be interested to know what kind of subjects are other people's best-sellers. And I hope the folks whose photos are here get a peek at the article while it's still online.

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Comments (17)

	Posted by Joyfnp on October 21, 2011 Marianne, I can't seem to find the proper place to thank you for putting two of my shots of the Merchant Marine Academy into your managed collection, so I'll thank you here!
	Posted by smartview27 on October 18, 2011 Wonderful view !
	Posted by Wordplanet on October 17, 2011 Congrats! To think I lived on Mount Desert Island for seven years and didnt start doing stock until I left! ;-) I know what you mean Edward! People used to tell me to quit my job and let my daughter model when she was little. I wasn't doing photography then (and the snapshots I have are all on ASA 400 35mm negatives) and while she's still gorgeous, she's away at college. And when I lived in Manhattan, it would've been great - now when I get in I feel like a tourist with my camera. But you certainly have a terrific variety of interesting photos. If you were still in such a beautiful spot you might not bother looking past the coastline for your inspiration.
	Posted by Peanutroaster on October 17, 2011 Congrats! To think I lived on Mount Desert Island for seven years and didn't start doing stock until I left! ;-)
	Posted by Wordplanet on October 17, 2011 Congratulations! Its a pity that I live quite far away from the beach! Jdanee, It looks like you get there quite often - lovely images. I live more than an hour form the nearest beach and several hours from those I love to photograph the most. That's why I really would like to move closer! :) You have great images! Thank you Laura. You have a great portfolio. So creative! Love that "painted" sunflower and the soap tower. And your portraits are lovely.
	Posted by Wordplanet on October 17, 2011 Congratulations! I think your photos were accepted by DT because they include boats (for the most part) or a lot of water. I uploaded 6 Florida beach shots, no boats, and all were rejected as not quite what we are looking for. I live in a beach town, Sarasota, Florida. Thanks KPhotos. I love your food images. I actually have a couple of very simple beach photos on DT with very little water and nothing but stones and sand. No boats. Here are a couple:
	Posted by Laurasinelle on October 16, 2011 You have great images!
	Posted by Jdanne on October 16, 2011 Congratulations! It's a pity that I live quite far away from the beach!
	Posted by Kphotos6411 on October 15, 2011 Congratulations! I think your photos were accepted by DT because they include boats (for the most part) or a lot of water. I uploaded 6 Florida beach shots, no boats, and all were rejected as "not quite what we are looking for." I live in a beach town, Sarasota, Florida.
	Posted by Wordplanet on October 14, 2011 Thanks for taking a look at my work and for the positive comments. Wangkun, I was happy to highlight your photo and those of the other DT folks with images in the article – anything that might help us all license more photos. I found another one of my photos on Travel + Leisure's website which makes 3 beach photos in major travel magazines or on their sites for September. It's really nice when they do those slide shows: it gets me dreaming of all the beautiful beaches I have yet to visit and those I'd like to revisit. I've enjoyed looking at everyone else's photos and blogs too – very inspirational ! Most of you have significantly larger portfolios than I do, but I'm hoping to add another 900 in the next 12 months - and another 1000 each year after that - a tough goal but one I need to reach if I'm going to get a good return. Brad, you really have a very diverse portfolio – even your sports images are so varied– love the chalkboards - and what cute...(More)
	Posted by Nero67 on October 14, 2011 Beautiful images!!!
	Posted by Jiawangkun on October 14, 2011 It's amazing to find my photo here, thank you for sharing.
	Posted by Egomezta on October 14, 2011 Your images are great, I guess we all want to move to the beach sooner or later.
	Posted by Bradcalkins on October 14, 2011 I've been doing a bit of an analysis and it turns out my sport photos do surprisingly well for me, despite my complete lack of interest in professional sports :) When you look at my top photos there are a lot of different photo types, but given the small number of sport shots I have, they have added a lot of dollars... I bought a football and baseball for the kids two years ago and did a handful of quick photos before they started playing with them - those images have made me $400 since then :) Plus I lucked out and happened upon a Superbowl site two years before the event:
	Posted by FabioConcetta on October 14, 2011 Have images really beautiful, congratulations!
	Posted by Mariaam on October 14, 2011 Beautiful photos!!!
	Posted by Joezachs on October 14, 2011 Light houses have an old world charm of their own and there is nothing like spending a solitary day on a beach.....