Stock Photography

I've been working on a deal with Photospin.com to purchase some of my photos for a little while now. Unlike other stock photo agencies, they pay you in advance for your photos, regardless of how many times they are downloaded. The good news is I can submit the same images to any other agency I want. I signed the contract and uploaded the pictures to the Photospin server, but I didn't know if they were accepted. Well after finding this check in the mail (I only found it the other day trapped in some junk mail) - I guess that means they accepted what I uploaded.

For the record, I do have some photos up on iStockphoto.com as well, but, as mentioned before, they give you a percentage of what people pay for your photos when they download them. So far nobody has downloaded any of the images I've submitted to them. So the honor of making me a true professional photographer beyond any doubt goes to Photospin.com.

Yes, it's another minor victory, but it keeps the momentum going. I'm also submitting more photos to iStockphoto.com (they are in review) so I'm hoping people will start downloading my work from there as well.

On another note, I picked up the photographs I submitted to the Orange County Fair yesterday. The woman who helped me get them from the "gallery" congratulated me for getting in - apparently a lot of people who submit photos get rejected. That felt kind of nice. I also got a nifty ribbon for being accepted.

She asked if I was getting ready for next year, and of course I told her I was. I've already got a couple of images in mind...