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Yep, we can count on that.

I wish Miz was still around, he's laugh his butt off at my pickle billboard discovery.  Miz was a good pal of mine - we spoke daily over IM and he listened to me piss and moan about my stressful corporate graphic design job.  He'd probably flip over in his grave if he heard that I went from 1000 images to 4000 in a year's time.

The only reason why I saw this thread, was because Matt showed it to me.  I try to stay off the forums lately so I can try and get more work done.  

Old hippy - I hope you can at least support your weed habit off those macro sales

Loop - AMEN.  Get that paper, homeboy.  Pennies per sale adds up a lot by the end of the month when you've built up enough volume and quality.  With the abundance of RF micro and midstock agencies, you can also spread your work out across a slew of agencies across the world.  That alone makes a huge difference in your monthly income, I can't stress that enough...as long as you have the time and prioritize which agencies are worth that time.

Old Hippy, is wrong on so many points, maybe some time on research would help.

It was camera manufactures that created the digital cameras and made them affordable, so everyone could compete on an equal footing where skill not money now matters.
The internet created the distrubution method to upload and display the images to customers all over the world.
The software companies created tools to prepare and correct the digital images and the payment gateways.
The traditional agencies shut the doors on new photographers and microstock was created.
Flickr opened up the social photography sites where photographers can compare images.
Microstock gave everyone images at an affordable price and allowed the use of images for many millions of NEW users, that just want a couple of images for a website or article and would never have brought an image from a traditional site.

I remember the high street with a lot of traditional outlets, they have all gone and we go to the superstores now, times changed and so did buying habits.

There are many other reasons traditional sales are falling, one being the traditional customer base, newspapers and magazines, these are struggling to survive as the internet becomes more available and faster more and more people get the news online, how many 20 somethings do you see reading a newspaper or magazine?

But hey whatever it is the Micro shooters to blame!

David  

Speaking of Miz, I keep seeing his name pop up as "Suggested Friends" to add on Facebook. 

Guess he's reminding us he's still here, in spirit, at least

Gebbie