In the beginning

For years now I am trying to become worlds best photographer. I want to make the mother of all images. The standard by which all others are measured. I am not quite there yet. Most of the time I am not pleased with the results and I wonder what I am doing wrong. But there are exceptions. You can see one of these below.

After years of boring my friends and family with slideshows, they urged me to find other ways to show of my pictures. Harassing complete strangers was not much of an option. Instead I tried getting them approved on different microstock sites and see if anyone was interested in buying them. I signed up with the following sites:

• IStockPhoto
• Dreamstime
• Shutterstock
• Fotolia

To my surprise the approval process went very easy and I was very excited to sell my first image. It is a strange feeling to know that somebody is actually paying you for the use of your images. More than being paid, I find it even more rewarding to see my images used. I even got published on the cover of a book! Wow

I will stop the sales pitch cause there also downsides. They will reject a lot of your submissions. You think you uploaded a beautiful image and all you get is an email saying "NOT APPROVED" . I still find that very difficult.