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I would think that you'd be wasting your time on anything other than the big six. Of which iStock would be the most likely to get you results I reckon.

I also know a guy who's getting a reasonable turnover on Shutterstock, however he's doing the sunset variations funnily enough.

thanks both!

jimi king, good to know IS is one. I like IS a lot.

btw, that's funny ... variations on sunsets big seller on SS

RT... sorry, please FLPA ... is which site? fotolia?

Unique shots should always be sold under RM licences.  To put them as RF in a micro site is to devaluate them. 

IS and SS  both give me reasonable return on my nature shots. I won't get  rich on my nature stuff in micros.  I do far better  pimping my work myself.  Natural Life Stock was supposed to be  'pure nature',  but it started taking on anything out of a camera.... and it failed.  I had a decent 'folio there and never sold one pic in the year it was in extistence.

Landscape/nature will sell on micro,  but it does not sell well.  AND as you've been advised,  that which sells is usually unique and well above the average. So  dullegg, if that's all your shooting,  forget making a bundle in micros.

Macro and RM will serve you much better.   If I stumble across another micro 'nature' site,  I'll let you know.  Please do the same.  =tom

thanks tom , thanks leaf...

what about selling direct to nature magazines eg ducks unlimited,etc...
or are we talking big time difficult impossibilities...
ie. like dreaming of selling to nat geog. 

thanks ppl!

wonderful, thanks RT for the info. i wll check them out to gauge my images .

also, StockXpert has a few outstanding bird shots there but a specific contributor. i like his style, but i cannot see if he had any sales there.

how do you find out if those outstanding shots of his are selling or not?

wow, haven't visited it yet, but it sure sounds like a top notch site.
and the more incentive to build up a boss portfolio of nature photography, if that is what we want to specialize in.

i have always shot nature but only when the images are unique.
they don't come easily, and it's take a lot of patience to wait for the right composition. but i felt there wasn't too much incentive to build a formidable portfolio in that section.

now, i think differently. maybe there is a site to aspire to.
THANKS again RT

You're welcome, I only mentioned it because you said in your first post that you had specialist shots, and they thrive on that type of imagery.
I don't think you need to aspire to them, Jean Hosking that runs it is a nice lady and although I don't know their minimum requirements for submissions now, I know that if you have a few once in a lifetime shots they would probably be interested.
But remember this is a 'specialist' site, you won't see instant results and in fact you only get paid every six months, but they will promote your work and any serious buyers in that sort of market will come to them.

with limited knowledge

wildlife will sell very slowly on micro so look at macro either rf or rm, where it will also sell very slowly (but you'll get more for it). But most macro agencies dont want it (alamy excepted), so there is about half a dozen specialised wildlife / nature  agencies such as FLPA, animals animals, etc but they all pretty much only do RM and there is a huge number of want to be wildlife photographers and so these agencies are some of the hardest to get into.  So either build a collection of really excellent wildlife and choose one of these agencies, or just throw it on the micros

(personally it gets kind of depressing on the micros though when you look at what you went through to get the shot and work out it made you $5 for the year)

Agreed! This has also worked for me. For sure, try the gallery route.   

Something else that opened some doors (actually a lot of doors),   we donated some of our large landscape/nature prints  to charity auctions.  The pictures pulled in some very respectable money and.... the 'advertising' did us good. We got nice response (other sales and for hire work) and...  helped the reputation of, and name recognition of our company locally.  Also, by networking with the other 'donators' and auction buyers, we've have become a first consideration when someone needs a picture taken.
  One example.  A picture was needed of a historic building. I went out, spent about 10 minutes, shot about 6 pix, submitted one....  $500. 

I am a big advocate of pimping your own work. Instead of pennies for a sale(in the micros),  you could pull in hundreds and even light 4 digit money when you are published. Try it!!!   Definitely, try charity auction, just have your name and/or company name out there for all to see. Advertise, advertise, advertise.   =tom