The new schedule has not been introduced yet, but it will be "sometime after the middle of July".

It was likely credits purchased in 2007 but before the price increase. 

Well, I just used the non-secure upload and 10 photos are missing.  That doesn't make me feel too good.

A couple days but sometimes it seems to take more than 24 hours after that to show up in the newest. 

Fewer sales and sizes are much smaller also.  Is it only bloggers buying photos this summer? 

I just got "7 out of 10" must be approved.  Haven't seen that one in a while....  and there was only 3 in the batch. 

Wow, Lisa - 100,000 dls, you are 10 times more productive than me. 

I rememeber once you being very humble when I commented about you being a terriffic photographer or or a great microstocker or something to that effect....  The numbers prove that that the buyers agree with me. 

Onward and upward!

[Thanks tan510jomast!  Glad my presence here is helping a bit.
We've got quite the challenge ahead (getting trickier by the day - ahem * flickr+getty * cough cough *. Thanks for your support!   

I, likely others too, find it reassuring that you visit us here.  Once you get ftp I will join the party. 

Oh boy, do I ever need to raise my expectations   Last season I thought this might be the year that I could make 10,000 at stock, but in order to do that I would have to actually grow my portfolio - something I seem unable to do when my business is growing faster than I expected.    My earnings have stayed more or less flat for about a year.

I think that a bigger goal for me in the immediate future would be to build a dedicated shooting room where the lights are always up and there's NO TOYS to pick up.  But the chances of that happening are about as good as earning 10,000 per month. 

For crying out loud Miz, you've fallen off that thin line you like to dance on again.  Your attempt at humour is embarrassing to all of us.

really?
when you think of it, if your image is good enough to win 25 bucks,
i would keep it to myself as RF to earn with DT and other sites
and still own the image.
don't you think?

Your answer is mostly correct.  If you enter that photo into a DT assignment though, it is as an exclusive image.  So you can only earn from it on DT.

I only entered one contest and I pushed the 25 bucks button.  They refused the photo.  I sent it elsewhere, and a few months later sent a cleaner version to DT again.  It's definitely made more than 25 bucks.

I think the quick 25 bucks is pretty great, but they are very specific about exclusivity, and you can't sell other photos from the same session anywhere else because of their exclusivity rules.

A couple weeks ago Chase Jarvis blogged Dear Light Meter: You're Dead To Me.   There's a ton of great comments on the post. 

http://blog.chasejarvis.com/blog/2008/04/dear-light-meter-youre-dead-to-me.html

Maybe we are slave workers and it seems like we work for $1 per hour.  But how many jobs have you had that you earn dividends after you leave?  Just think of all those great Excel spreadsheets you set up for your department... you got paid to go to work that day, and they are still using your spreadsheets, but you are long gone.

Sure, in it's first year you only earned $1 per hour isolating that pencil.  Maybe next year you will have an EL or a search engine tweak will boost your pencil and it will fly off the shelf.  How many jobs can you earn a dividend over such a long period?  Maybe life insurance sales.  YUCK!

I don't shoot isolated pencils.  I could do that stuff and have a lot of photos on line that sell a little - but over average might bring a nice steady income.  I'd rather send in few of photos that I think will sell - and even then, I am not so good at guessing what might sell anyway, so maybe I should start photographing pencils. 

Investing our time in stock photos is a bit like like investing in the stock market, isn't it?  Hopefully less $ investment risked though.

And considering that you also have a lot of anti-fans, and that you need to be loved or hated, but never ignored, for me you are the Paris Hilton of microstock!

OMG... never heard more accurate description!

Well Miz, I faved you a couple years ago before I knew what a miserable sob you are