Tuesday, November 30, 2010

November 2010 earnings




Highlights

Earnings show a slowdown from previous month although the big4  are still holding with respectable earnings. No video sales to report so royalties are split between photo (97%) and audio (3%).


Reporting by media
  •     Photo
Once again Shutterstock takes the first place with plenty of OD sales. Not too far behind is Fotolia with a new BME and third  Dreamstime only few dollars away from a BME thanks to a special 100% royalty day. Although earnings for the  big4 photo are growing, Istock is 300% down compared to last year.

  •     Video
No sales this month which is a  first for this year.

  •     Audio
Audio sales represent a  bit more  than 3% of total earnings with  most sales coming from Pond5.



As usual, stay tuned for more blog updates in December  and in the meantime, you can follow my  updates on Twitter. You can also join my facebook photo page here.

Wednesday, November 24, 2010

11 Beautiful Subway Pictures



As a traveler, it is always a new experience to take public transportation. Subways especially are often a good playground to take candid shots, compose graphic pictures or play with motion blur.  Tripod are generally not allowed but small ones like the gorillapod go often unnoticed. Fell free to post your metro/subway pictures on the comment section.

You can click on these pictures to see a bigger size and get the contact details of the artist if you want to license his or her work.

Metro Woman

Subway scene 


auditorio

Train departing from Los Angeles metro selenium tones

Shoot and Scram

Southbound train



Al mal tiempo, buena cara

Subway Car

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Singapore subway

Finally

October 2010 earnings



Highlights


The end of the year slow down did not kick in yet as earnings this month were very close to numbers in September which was  my best month of this year. Photo is always the best earning media (89%) followed by video (7.5%) and audio (3.5%).


Reporting by media
  • Photo
Shutterstock is leading again this month with a new BME (helped by 2 EL) followed by Fotolia with a BME also. Istock is third this month performing a bit better than usual. Dreamstime is not to far off a BME as well.

  • Video
Two sales this month including one at Pond5 with a $50 commission and one at Istock with $5 commission, no need to comment on this one:) No sales at Revostock and Clipcanvas. Since Isyndica is not around anymore and because of my slow connection speed, I upload my clips to Pond5 only.
  • Audio
With a bit more than 3% of total earnings, audio had another BME this month with sales at Pond5 and Revostock.

As usual, stay tuned for more blog updates in November  and in the meantime, you can follow my  updates on Twitter. You can also join my facebook photo page here.