Two being my charm because this is the second time I have submitted to assignments (not successful on first attempt) and I have now had 2 images selected for the current assignment, Sea, sun and fun. Although I am ecstatic about their acceptance and there is reward in the fact that there were 2 accepted, I am among good company when looking at some of the examples shown here, as well as all other accepted submissions by fellow contributes and I believe amongst such quality it will be tough going to get into the top 3. Best of luck to all contributes, enjoy the reward of already having your images selected, and to whoever the winners may be, enjoy the great prizes being offered by DT and their sponsors [link=http://demo.payoneer.com/partners/DreamstimeContest/dreamstime.html]...

Some of the more successful sellers here might get a good laugh out of this one but its all part of the fun. The idea behind my heading is that on the 7th September I will have been online at DT for 1 year, therefore in just over 4 days time actually, I will be 1 years old as a contributor, and I have a little over $7.00 to make to get me over my first $100-00 mark. Small amount in such a short time, is it possible, yes I can do it - or is that yes you can? Kind of tongue in cheek advertising in a way but hey if I can make this small milestone before my birthday, I will try it :0) Thanks for a great (almost) year so far though, to fellow contributors, the community, DT admin and staff and last but not least the buyers that have bought some of my images so far. May the next year be fruitful...

Well it was a year ago today that I decided to join DT and start submitting - for the first time - images to stock image sites, below is a brief reflection of my activities over the past year here at DT...

To start with a few days ago I posted a blog -$7 in four days, I can do it!- stating that I had about 4 days left to go before I reached my first $100-00 sales mark, well I can gladly say that today on my first birthday here at DT a sale of this image

pushed me just over my first $100 mark and is obviously the highlight of my year in reflection.

410 accepted images online

Acceptance ratio of 52.4% (Would be higher if I did not like wildlife so...

I read once somewhere here in the DT blogs that a good photographer should be able to take a photograph of anything and make it look great. That said this brings me to the point of this blog - its more of a quiz to which I hope to find some answers through responses though :0)

Although I agree with the statement above, I am not completely convinced I believe it. For me as a wildlife/landscape photographer by heart, I find it extremely difficult to visualize yet alone set up still life photo shoots, or even harder to take pictures of models etc (maybe a studio would make this different), and basically would struggle with the creative side of this style of photography. With my natural tendencies towards Wildlife, Nature and Landscapes, the hard work is done for me I guess, the models are already...