The excitement of waiting dashed... but for good reasons

And so after only two days of trepidation I got the news that my images had been accepted for PhotoShelter... a bit more keywording and setting up and...

I'm a stock photographer... ! Try going to - psc.photoshelter.com     - and search for capoeira

Plus a couple got editors selection, all very exciting - sure I won't actually sell a thing!

Spent the evening reading up on all their advice and tutorials... and have to say for any aspirers out there give them a shot they really seem a friendly bunch.

Fired off the Alamy ones too - but think I'm going to focus on PhotoShelter and their note that there is a serious lack of decent seniors imagery... Might as well make use of the fact that my dad is an active old steed at the age of 86!

Other work is coming along well, pulling all the content together for the Darcys website that I have designed and done the photography for.

Spent 8 hrs yesterday on getting very geeky small bits of code sorted, but makes sense to get the heart of it right - so that it can be updated easily later on...

Ash *

Fingers crossed the process begins...

I have just submitted my test images to the first image library that I'd like to work with. Can't really believe it has taken this long... 5 years since I graduated, but hey, better late than never!

So PhotoShelter is my first port of call - great people, been really friendly, helpful and made me already feel part of something. On that point for anyone who is interested check out this link:

20th of July - take part, learn something and maybe win something...

 OR  ?

Just weighing up next whether I put more effort into Alamy or Getty. Get the sense that Getty is the more prestigious, harder to get into, but has more kudos, whereas Alamy really aims to hit the world with quantity of great quality images... will make my mind up soon. I need the dosh!

I know its sad, but been getting addicted to my flickr stats, been intrigued to see how i can control how many view my images, rate them and favourite them based on what I upload...

Any visits, much appreciated!!!

Ash