As you know, I am slowly but surely building up a portfolio of stock photos.

I have been submitting photos to Shutterstock for over a year now, and although I mostly have low value sales of some 25 US cents, the sales are quite frequent and do add up. I find the uploading easy and fast, which makes it even more worth it. If you are thinking of starting with stock, I do recommend Shutterstock as one of your first stops. You can register here

For those of you who are interested in trying out micro stock photography, I can recommend to try out 123rf . Having dabbled in the frustrating world of micro stock, I feel that their site is very userfriendly, with fast uploading. And once they sell, the pay is generally much better than most other sites. I even had a sale of €35 ones!

They do like to reject images for flat/dull colours, which basically could mean anything. But in general, when i look at my online portfolio, many pictures do look more dull than on other sites. So try to tweak your pictures as much as you can for some brightness without distorting your pixels.

Summer is over. To get the last out of it, we went for a short break to Sicily

Brochure cover taken for EC language school

… if this whole club is dead; ‘cuz the party’s in my head