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I quit there. Tried 2 months, didnt sell anything. It is not worth the time....

I submitted a batch of 16 on Wednesday.

They reviewed them today - which is fast - found something wrong with the first one, and rejected the whole lot.

Now that's rejection for you.      (Was someone complaining about it in another thread?)

That probably changed. In my last batch of 10, 8 were accepted and 2 rejected (size problem).

I have uploaded over 100 but no sales yet.  I don't expect many sales but the higher prices will make up for it.  I am trying to upload photos that are not on the micro sites.

In the alamy pro forum there is a spreadsheet of the results of an earnings poll, like the ones we have here.  That has given me motivation.  There are people making good money with them.

I've been at alamy since 2004. I have 5,000 RM images there. I have sold images every month except for the first 5 or six months. Returns are about $6 per image per year. For about 80% of all first sales (ie the first sale for any one image), the image was online 8 months or longer (ie reflecting the longer turnaround for professional buyer projects). Don't expect quick sales.

Competition is tough. Good quality images shot on professional equipment and subjects not well covered or difficult to shoot do very well. Forget the iStock type of images (nice red tomatoes on white background, or smily business people, or cut-outs of everyday things). The micros have killed that market. Editorial stuff sells well at alamy (travel, culture, day-to-day real-life, current world issues etc etc).

Don't upload more of the same crap. Be selective, research your competition, look at magazines, newspapers etc. Read the news. Know what is in demand.

Alamy is about real photo business. Shoot for the market. Don't upload stuff expecting it to sell. There is no buyer risk purchasing an image for $5 (probably many images at micros don't even get used!). $500 is a different matter. Buyers are more selective.

1st post, eh? Welcome aboard. Good info.

  Alamy is not SS, LOL.

It took me about 6 months to have my 1st sale, and after that my rank was high enough to show in the first search pages.  Now I sell consistently between 2 to 6 images every month, which roughly is worth 2000 sales with SS

Last month Alamy was my 1st earner, 60% of total stock income.  I have 285 pics with Alamy and about 800 with micros.

You bet. Be aware that you're up against some big-time players on there ... Martin Harvey, Bob Elsdale, Ron Chapple, John Terence Turner, etc.

Your average 'dog in the garden', 'close-up of a brick wall' or 'office stapler isolated on white' isn't going to do very well on Alamy.

And they have just about the most involved and complex keywording/classification system going. If you thought iStock's was bad, you ain't seen nothing.

But, then, of course, there's the chance to earn serious money for good images. That's why the big players are there.