I figure this is as off topic as I can get. No model release, no property release, not newsworthy, closed event, trademarks and copyright. Other than that? :D It's still fun to take them. Crop and levels, nothing else.
(http://pages.prodigy.net/robert_baker/nosale/redbike-nesba-web.jpg)
that's a really cool shot, well done...
Thanks both. I was just bored and had this one that I did a quick edit on. I was thinking that 98% (Or make that 99%?) of what I shoot, never leaves the computer. I liked the red on red aspect. background was dull and drab, but that's Springtime in the Mid-West. I have over 1000 motorsports photos up on Alamy now, most well identified, driver, make, model, year, event, location, all the editorial necessities. No sales, not exceptional view counts or zooms. I thought it was a good idea? ;) I don't even print my own photos very often. I think I did a test panorama last December, fitting to into one 8 x 10 to get around the way the machines decide what I had in mind as far as format.
That brings me around to the second part of the answer. After spending a year thinking "would this be a good stock shot" while I was driving, walking or doing just about anything, I found that Spring made me realize that I enjoy shooting photos for myself more, and I suck as a microstock shooter. I'm not motivated to do what's necessary to create what actually sells and follow the market by meeting the demands of buyers. The challenge was interesting, I had fun with projects, the reviews made me more self critical of technical issues that I'd often overlook, favoring photo content. I guess I'm more of a news or documentary type person.
I'm going to do what I enjoy and have fun. I was kidding myself and saying I'm shooting to sell things for microstock. I wasn't really doing that.
If I wanted to torture myself I'd have a Flickr account and post the photo of the week, or day or whatever, but I just don't like the idea of right click and it's in the wild in cyberspace. Here I feel like there's a limited audience instead of a mass of people who spend their day "borrowing" photos and using them without credit.
This is all about having fun, not, oh wow shots, amazing photoshop editing, creative work or anything else, those are all fine motivations, just not mine. Just plain fun doing what I enjoy.
What entertains me? Some pretty boring stuff. This one is 91 photos, 22121 x 7082, 60mb file, 448mb uncompressed! Now that's my kind of fun. ;D Websize version below because it just wouldn't be right to attach that monster. Yes, it's up on Alamy.
(http://pages.prodigy.net/pporro/temppics/deter-home-spring-web.jpg)