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I shoot what I like, and I am not photographing what I don't like.

Watch out!!!   You might just hear a knock on the door!!! LOL....
BTW, Where is 'out this way',  Nativelight? =tom

I shoot what I like and then if there's anything that's "stockworthy", I upload it.  This is why I'm with a couple of different agencies that have quite different portfolios when it comes to "style".

It also might explain why my portfolios are reasonably small.  I don't go out to shoot purely for stock.  I've tried that a few times and it didn't really click with me.  Felt like I was forcing something.

Looking through the lens and clicking is capturing a specific moment that is gone. Each one, whether it is perfect or not (or stock or not), will some day be looked upon by eyes that can never see that second again. Its a chronological history of our generation.

I wonder, at the rate we are capturing "everything"... will we ever capture it all?

Is it possible?

Yes, I love it.

I have to agree with AKA tom and nemo1024--I find that shooting items in a "little white box" boring. I don't think I have the patience for that type of shooting.  I do like shooting for micros,  however.  Shoot what catches my eye.  If they  get accepted and sell, great.  Some of my ' after thought grab shots' sell better than my studio images.



Every moment brings something new.

Sorry, Tom.  I didn't see your question until someone revived this thread today.  "Out this way" is the Rocky Mountains of Colorado - Colorado Springs to be more specific.  Pikes Peak is my "backyard."   

There are those who do Microstock as "work".  They shoot what sells and hope to get it past the reviewers.  What's important to them is the check they get each month.

Then there are those that just always have a camera with them.  In this age of Digital, they can shoot as much as they want, knowing they can simply delete what they don't like.  When they get home, they submit it to MS sites and if they get a check that month, it's "extra" income to be used to get new equipment or take the family out to do something special.

There is a pretty good mix of the two camps here on the forum (including some who are really in the first camp although they *believe* they are in the second camp).

Personally, I think the commercial category of MicroStock is pretty much saturated.  There's not a whole lot left that is truly new or unique.  Indeed, more and more, you are seeing sites reject submissions for not being unique enough if their eyes.

(One remedy is for someone to start offering commercial flights to the Moon and other planets.)

My brother decided to give up on his normal nature stuff (landscapes, animals, flora, etc..) and do some editorial stuff (following the political candidates around at the moment) and he's selling 10 times what his other stuff sells for lately.

No! I do it only for the money. I like to shoot industrial art, old abandoned factories, big old rusty machines, and stuff like that. That does not sell well on microstock.

Wow, topical images sell better than pretty pictures of nothing in particular ... who'd have thunk it? (wink)

I was doing 3d work for a large defense contractor (think flight simulator content).  Military work ain't my thing.

Yep, it sure is ... this is the best and most rewarding job I've ever had!

Y E S !

Keywording bores me.

I'm not in it for the money, just for the challenges that some shots bring. I decided to take the education is fun route.

Yep, I enjoy all of it. I love it. Well, maybe I don't enjoy keywording but it doesn't bother me either.

I enjoy stumbling upon a good shot just as much as I do assembling one. Isolations don't bother me.

If I could live off of this it would be a whole different quality of life from my 50-70 hour per week corporate technology day job.