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You can see this question from time to time in the forums. Some agencies help you with this answer by providing some useful list. I some times look through this list, but often I have to search for them because a forgot where they are located. So I created this page to keep them handy.

http://photo.hlehnerer.com/WhatIsSelling.html

Please let me know if there are some missing.

Everything sells guys. It's about how many they sell. Being unique,different and technically perfect will always rise to the top regardless of how much crap there accepting nowdays. there into numbers gang, it makes them worth more, it makes us worth less. thats the truth.

I can remember what an oldtimer stock contributor once told me 5 months ago when I asked her the same question. She told me, it's not what you the photographer thinks is amazing so it sells. It's what is generic that the buyer can use and use again. recycle stuff. your peers may not think it's so great a photograph.
 it's not an Ansel Adams or W E Smith, but it's something a buyer can use over and over again. I still find it hard to put on two different "head" when shooting for gallery , and then shooting for stock. but to be successful in stock, that's vital.

I hated her answer, but I realised she was, and still is right.

Yes, 100% right.
Generic, generic, generic.
If you want to (only) create art, you're in the wrong industry.

not necessary true, some nature picture or backgrounds are selling quite well

Amen, hali.  Peanut butter sandwiches sell better than a glorious artsy-fartsy shot of a sunset on the beach.  Sad, but true, true, true.