Lubitel anyone?

Saw this one on the Souq Mubarakiya on Monday (same shop as the medals).
They actually have two of them, one with an exposed film in it. Tickles me.

Fotolia – yippie :)

Most of you might know about it.
Some might do it.

Stock market sites to sell your pictures. Yes, the payment kind of sucks, yet I still am making more money there then on my zazzle site to sell my pictures as cards and mugs, etc.
It’s less work too

If you need tips on how to work with it, let me know. All in all in the last 6 months I made 15 Dollars (update: 16,50). Not much, but hey, I just take the shots, work them a bit and upload them there.
You will have some rejections, but it’s worth a try.

OK, here’s the one I’m on:

There’s a bunch more, I will post a list this week if you want to know

Have fun!

Bazaar & newspaper

The Bazaar we had on Friday last week was a success, I would say.
I’m not sure HOW much we made, the lack of communication there is one thing I don’t like, but that’s another story.
I sold quite some cards and one big frame, yeah, maybe made some contacts and MAYBE some of them need some more cards / frames one day
Got an order for 40 cards, which is not exactly bad and have been in the newspaper yesterday, grin, one whole page,all mine
I will try to take a decent picture of it and post it later
I don’tlike everything the reporter wrote and how she wrote it, but I guess that’s pretty normal with such things, sigh

 

Stock market sites and fotolia

Is anyone out there at Fotolia to “sell” pictures?

I have a few shots up there and from time to time I sell one (yes, it’s peanuts…but it sort of feels good).

Anyway, I thought their payment system of fifty fifty is quite alright, but today I have checked the site, after having had two peanuts sold and found that they keep more of my money now. I remember a long email with them explaining some changes, but sure I didn’t read it. They have changed the Layout of the site quite a bit and the payment, I guess.

I will not upload any new shots right now, but leave the ones I have there and see what will happen.

Just wondering, if anyone is there and what your experiences are. Or are you somewhere else and how is it there?

Absolut vision

Acclaim Images

bigstockphoto

canstockphoto

crestock

dreamstime (I’m not sure, but is this the one that stole pictures from a flickr photographer?)

Foto Libra

Getty Images

gimmestock

istockphoto

photographersdirect

pro.corbis

shuttermap

shutterstock

stockphotomedia

stockxpert

usphotostock

It’s paying off

Effort and time spent on Zazzle is paying off.
No, not in money – yet.
But in Awards.
Yes, I know… but here, getting an award like “Today’s Best” means that you show up on the zazzle front page in random with the other products chosen for that day.
On the 8th I had 4 chosen and today I have another one.
And you know what, it makes me feel good

Catch it
by
Rainmountain
Get this custom postcard at Zazzle

Renovating

After looking around for a place once again, where I can sell my pictures without a big hassle and without a huge amount of cash input, I stumbled over my old zazzle account and found, after retrieving my password, that they have changed a lot over there. The Layout is much better and you can do a whole lot of more things. I have started uploading a few more shots there and create a few more new products and even landed 4 of them on yesterdays daily featured . And I found that in the last two months I had two sales activities. Something which has not happened yet on my SmugMug account, which I payed for.

So, I guess, in the next few days I will be busy, placing new stuff at zazzle and trying to sort them in a decent order. I need a place which I can put as an address on my card and pictures sales over here as a reference. And this seems for right now the better alternitive than SmugMug. You can simply do more various products with your stuff – and it’s for free . OK, you still will not become rich and the main money part goes to zazzle, but heck, that’s fine with me, still better than any stock market site so far.

Off to work ….