What are your thoughts?

They are doing you a favor. 

I have no idea whether he has uploaded solid stock imagery or is just starting out and has some work to do.  We all have room for improvement.  Lord knows, I do. 

Thanks,

Mat

Matt,

What a gracious offer to personally critique my images, although I am not just "starting out" I have been at this game for a few years now.

I do believe your statement "we could all use improvement" is a true statement, however I am comfortable in my abilities as a photographer and truly feel that Fotolia is just rejecting images they "don't want" rather than for the, as someone else said "laundry list of reasons" for rejecting perfectly good images.

That is not to say that I think I am a "perfect" photography who never makes mistakes, just that the images I have uploaded over at the Fo-rejection-tila warehouse are suitable for sales and will garner a reasonable ROI at some other stock site.

There are a number of stock sites that every once in a while will get way up there on their high-horse and forget that, for the most part the images submitted are sold for somewhere around 25 cents each. For the reviewers to expect the kind of images created with hours of pre- and post production as well as images shot with medium or large format equipment is just silly as far as I am concerned.

Bottom line, I agree with the "studio and people shots are the way to go with Fotolia" statement, even though my nature shots at Fotolia are some of my best sellers in my collection.

OK, this is weird, really weird . . .

So I have the emails that say "Image Declined" for technical problems or similar image and yesterday the images in question did not show up as "green" (accepted) but rather "red" (image declined).

And here is the really weird part, when I checked this morning, all but one of the images are showing "green" (accepted) even though I can place the images with the "Image Declined" email and know for sure it is the same image.

Weird?

Either someone over at Fotolia read this thread and re-reviewed the images and now all but one is acceptable, or space aliens came during the night and worked in partnership with Matt and now suddenly my photography abilities have been re-applied to me and I am not loosing my mind . . .

However, I am still trying to explain the "Image Declined" emails and Accepted images on the site???

Whatever the Area 51 explanation is, Thank You to either the Fotolia reviewers, Space Aliens, or Matt for taking care of this batch for me.

Gotta love them space aliens