Hello.


In past 4 months I uploaded over 1850 images to dreamstime without any sells. Which made me wonder is it even good idea uploading photos there. Makes me wonder if there are better sites to sell nature photos.

Maybe Martha will see this or you can ask her, or Shady Sue. I'm not sure of any others who do concentrate on nature photos.

I think nature in general hasn't sold well in microstock. Low demand and a large quantity of images. You may want to consider a different route like art POD.

I've never submitted anywhere other than iS and Alamy, and IIRC Martha now is focussing on AdobeStock, so it would be hard to say where would be 'best'. I'm not really a landscape specialist anyway.

Travel/Nature sells ok on most  sites if you can have good , different nature travel pictures that are well caption with good info for the user/reader.

I'm primarily a travel and editorial photographer but I shoot a fair amount of nature, both landscapes/seascapes, some weather related images, and detail images of plants and insects. I agree that good shots with precise and accurate captions and keywords sell across various sites.

More than half of my images licensed by Alamy this year were landscape or seascape shots; some of them were licensed for personal use for one-off prints. About one-third of the images that sold on Adobe Stock this year were nature images, including landscapes and flowers. At dreamstime, different images sold, but again nature accounted for about 1/3rd. (When I was with shutterstock, they also sold there).

Nature sells best for me on Fine Art America, a print on demand site that sells photo prints. All types of nature sold there - landscapes, seascapes, flowers/plants, animals, and seashells. 16 out of 30 sales there so far this year were nature, so just over half.

It is essential to caption and keyword accurately and to include the scientific (Latin) name for the trees, flowers, or other plants that are significant in the image, and to include the location if it is relevant. This is the only way your images show up in searches. "Pretty flower" won't cut it, but I'm assuming you know this. 

While nature images are not a huge stock sellers, they are evergreen, that is, unlike lifestyle shots, they will keep selling for many years. If your nature images are well composed and interesting, not simply pretty snapshots, and if they are also keyworded well, they should sell.

Good luck!

Roscoe:
Thank you a lot for sharing your experiences in kind of landscape photography, agencies where it should get sell and for the GREAT short example for good title - it just SHOWS very well in short, how to creat a good title without many other words around.
Add the advice from somone above about the POD sites and a landscape photograph, who just want to start selling his work, has a good start.

I'm very late coming to this discussion because my husband has been in the hospital (not for Covid, thank God) almost since the thread started. He's not doing well, so obviously my attention is there, not here.

Best wishes to you both, Martha. Thinking about you.

Thank you. My husband of 53 years died Tuesday night, peacefully and painlessly with me at his side. It was a relief in many ways, because he had suffered through a long, difficult series of events. He is at peace now, and I am too.

This was not Covid or any normal disease. In 2011, he suffered through two rounds of viral encephalitis (an extremely rare inflammation of the brain). Although he survived that, it left him with brain damage and epilepsy. Managing the epilepsy has dominated our lives these last 9 years, but about 6 weeks ago the medications stopped working. He developed an end-stage condition called Status epilepticus, where the seizures just go on and on and on with stopping. His lasted 48 hours before they finally burned out.

If anyone is curious, Johns Hopkins University has a clear explanation on its website:

https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseases/status-epilepticus

Quote from: marthamarks on December 09, 2020, 22:49

Thank you. My husband of 53 years died Tuesday night, peacefully and painlessly with me at his side. It was a relief in many ways, because he had suffered through a long, difficult series of events. He is at peace now, and I am too.

This was not Covid or any normal disease. In 2011, he suffered through two rounds of viral encephalitis (an extremely rare inflammation of the brain). Although he survived that, it left him with brain damage and epilepsy. Managing the epilepsy has dominated our lives these last 9 years, but about 6 weeks ago the medications stopped working. He developed an end-stage condition called Status epilepticus, where the seizures just go on and on and on with stopping. His lasted 48 hours before they finally burned out.

If anyone is curious, Johns Hopkins University has a clear explanation on its website:

https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseases/status-epilepticus

So sorry to hear your news, Martha, though I understand your feelings of peace for him and for you.
Look after yourself now. These are especially difficult times to be going through this experience.

Thank you for that. I'm surrounded by people whom I can't hug and who can't hug me. But the warmth of their support is real, and the peace I feel is real too.

Please take care of yourself and be well

Thank you. My husband of 53 years died Tuesday night, peacefully and painlessly with me at his side. It was a relief in many ways, because he had suffered through a long, difficult series of events. He is at peace now, and I am too.

This was not Covid or any normal disease. In 2011, he suffered through two rounds of viral encephalitis (an extremely rare inflammation of the brain). Although he survived that, it left him with brain damage and epilepsy. Managing the epilepsy has dominated our lives these last 9 years, but about 6 weeks ago the medications stopped working. He developed an end-stage condition called Status epilepticus, where the seizures just go on and on and on with stopping. His lasted 48 hours before they finally burned out.

If anyone is curious, Johns Hopkins University has a clear explanation on its website:

https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseases/status-epilepticus

Sorry to read that.

Stay strong Martha.

So sorry for your husband loss R.I.P

Sorry for your loss, Martha