Hi All,

 My company has just launched a new Macro RM/RF collection titled Spaces Images. You can find it at www.spacesimages.com to see a portion of the work. We are excited to start this collection with the support of Corbis for our launch. We are however multi ditributional so our RM and RF will be carried by many distributors across the globe.
 The collection is much different than my usual lifestyle work actually there is not a person in any of the work. The collection is based on the environments where people live, work and play. After spending 12 years analyzing our personal sales of now 15,000 images we realized by far our best sellers were locations without people that were Property Released when need be. That was the birth of the concept and after a year and a half of work we are now representing 40 wonderful photographers and are launching with 4,000 images.
 We offer all our contributors a 50/50 split so that photographers can continue to be able to afford making stelar photos in this tightening economy. If anyone here is interested in being part of the team please contact us throgh the web site. We already have a couple of MSG members signed and they are exceeding all expectations making the collection stronger every day.
 If you are interested in just learning more please drop me a PM and we can discuss in more detail. No cost to the contributor, we cover all key wording and distribution and you provide us with the finished image and a Property Release where needed, simple as we could make it for the contributor. I hope to hear from some of you, there is a great deal of talent on this site and it is a way to break into the Macro market if that is of interest. Also no expensive models to deal with

Cheers,
Jonathan

I saw the spaces collection last week.  I like that style a lot - very interesting and intriguing I think. 

Are the images uploaded to the spaces collection required to be exclusive?

Congratulations, Jonathan; on reaching that next level.  You and your partner must be very proud (as you should be).  Best wishes for a huge success.

Hi SJ,

 It is the strangest thing when we started noticing the trends. Since I have been involved mainly in Macro RF for this kind of content I don't know who it is that buys up all these images but they continually sell. From floor manufacturers to paint companies it is very consistant but still surprising.
 When we first presented it to Corbis they got it right away and showed us the numbers on the returns of these kind of images and across the board this concept was selling well for many photographers. I made 7k off a shot of someone's deck to their home in Macro RF and it is still bringing in sales. I only took the photo because my models were late
 I will let you know as we begin to gather data where we see these images used most. Thanks tons for the support, that means a lot to me coming from you.

Cheers,
Jonathan

Hi melastmohican,

 Please check these last two responses and see if that answers your question, global distribution to as many sites as actually make reasonable returns. There are about 87 agencies at this time that will make money and we hope to be represented by all of them. But you can't send your image you gave to Spaces to another agency, we take care of all of that end through multi distribution so you don't have to. One statement from us that covers all your sales to all our distributors and you just upload once to us.
 Blend Images is doing it and now so are Cultura and I believe a couple others, I think it will be one way photographers can do what they do best take photos and leave the rest to us which by the way is being supported by Rahul and the Lookstat team. Hope that helps.

Best,
Jonathan

Hi Jonathan,

I've read your post with great interest.
You choose a niche category, and as somebody already mentioned, it is hard to find enough material that is going to be of your interest. I am doing some commercials for local gyms, but they are not providing me with property release, so I can just forget about those. From now on I will be thinking about those types of images and I will try to collect some, and some day submit them to your agency Spaces Images.
I believe in your success, you do not sound like you are just fooling around like many of us, it looks like you already researched that in detail. And of course having Corbis as support is a huge plus.

And, congratulations Jonathan, I wish you all the best.
Kone

Hi Kone,

 Love to talk anytime. Please feel welcome to contact us if we can answer some questions. Thanks for the support, everyone has been super helpful.

Best,
Jonathan

Really interesting concept Jonathan. I checked some of the photos and they are really beautiful. I will check the collection more and will keep my eyes (and mind) open. I'm usually more a portrait photographer but it's always interesting to explore new avenues.

Hi FD,

 This site is full of talent without a doubt I am very pleased to here the support MSG is giving the new collection. Unfortunately as with all new web sites we have our first glitch and the thumbs are not loading properly. I will have our web designer fix it in the morning but the images are still viewable they just show up on a light background instead of a black one and the site is loading very slow. Thanks goes out to Rob here on MSG for letting me know, thanks Rob.

Best,
Jonathan

Jonathon you also have a typo on your photographers page

"Anderson Ross Photopraphy"

It's the first name in the first column here:
http://www.spacesimages.com/photographers.html

Nice site and interesting collection

Congratulations Jonathan