here's another search oddity:
a search for "bird Zaanse Schans" shows my heron on 1st page - but only after 10 images w/o any birds in them!
https://www.shutterstock.com/image-photo/grey-heron-ardea-cinerea-stalking-canals-1854713560

Quote from: HappyBunny on December 18, 2021, 08:58
Do you guys move after you have taken photos all around you or is it in your opinion just a waste of money because there will be another stock photographer living everywhere? I could start taking photos of every flower I see but photos of flowers I took never sold very well.

I move every two or three years for work - no, photography isn't my full-time job, unfortunately. The stock content I capture is incidental to where I end up. Firstly to London then Netherlands, then Italy, then Portugal, then Madrid. Where to next, not sure. It's fun and a good way to get out of my comfort zone, plus apparently it slows the perception of time since I'm always having new experiences.

If you geo-tag all my pics you can probably quite accurately pin-point where I lived/worked as I'm shooting so much locally.  There is so much more to shoot than flowers.