Saturday, February 5, 2011

January 2011 earnings



Highlights


This first month of the year was pretty good with a significant increase of sales in photo, video and audio compared to January 2010.

  • Photo
No BME to report this month. SS finished first, quite far away from  Istock and Fotolia. Sales at Veer and Fotolia were pretty low  and Istock was  only saved by two EL sales. Compared to january 2010, Shutterstock earnings were  up 18%, Fotolia up 3%, Dreamstime up 74% and Istock up 14%.


  • Video
3 clips were sold this month at Pond5 and Clipcanvas making actually  a BME.

  • Audio
Few sales at Pond5 with only 1% of total multimedia earnings.

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

Thursday, January 13, 2011

12 Graphic Food and Drink Background Pictures



Foods and drinks can made amazing  abstracts and backgrounds, even a simple pile of spaghetti or a  glass of beer on the counter. I made in this post a compillation of my most interesting  food and drink backgrounds  in this post, enjoy your visit:).
You can click on each picture to open it  a new window  and also  to order  a  license for commercial use.


Coffee beans with selective focusing
Bunch of multicolored candy pills
Uncooked Italian pasta spaghetti from top
Macro of a glass of fresh beer with water drop
Red chili peppers
Corn background
Closeup of a pile of dry brown coconut
Icy syrup
Strawberry juice
Closeup of a pile of white coconut stripes
Row of Bordeaux wine bottles stacked in a cellar with shallow depth of field