Just a statistical question ... won't the number of prints you've sold be affected by the number of images you have online? I have 678 images with IS and have sold 2 prints.

Here's one of them:

One print sold:



http://www.istockphoto.com/file_closeup.php?id=1869399

I have 247 files online. The print was 11x14" and I got $2 for it.

The prints generate very little income but it is kind of a free money. Actually I am surprised that iStock bothers with it since it seems like lot more work for them.

Karin, I thought of you this week when a Vonage ad was on the top my homepage (local Free Press).  They must rotate, it's another one today... They used an image like yours.  The first thing I thought was "I wonder if they bought Karimala's famous brown paper bag!"  LOL.

Karin, I thought of you this week when a Vonage ad was on the top my homepage (local Free Press).  They must rotate, it's another one today... They used an image like yours.  The first thing I thought was "I wonder if they bought Karimala's famous brown paper bag!"  LOL.

Too funny!  :-)  I shot a series of them after seeing a designer use one as an overlay...looked very cool.  But a print?  LOL  My other favorite is the recent $50 EL purchase at Fotolia of a paper towel background.  $50 for a paper towel.  Whatever these buyers are smoking, please smoke more!  ;-)

I've sold 2.  Still can't figure out why someone would buy a print of a poorly lit paper bag.   

Don't try to figure it out. Just bank the money.   

There's no accounting for what people want in this game. That's one of the beauties of it.

Sometimes I think of myself as a sort of 'hunter/gatherer' seeking out images here and there like those people of old used to go through the forest looking for stuff for the pot.