Oh boy, everything has arrived and Canadian dollar is at $1.10 today.  Paypal is charging over .11 per dollar exchange!!  What is happening to this world?

Does that mean that everyone else's payout tally is correct?  That was what I was primarily asking before I went off track.  Some of you must actually have good earnings there which could magnify a glitch.  It seems kinda silly bringing up just a penny - but there must be a calculation glitch and it may have an actual impact those of you with good sales.

Is there any way to see regular sales on 123, I can only find subscription sales.   (Other than seeing numbers in myfaves).

I answered my own question - in the my images download page, top right corner you can switch between credits and subscriptions.

.... just in case anyone else is as slow as me at picking up on these things 

In studio - no filter
Outside - filter

I live on the prairies.  Pretty windy here as a rule and that dust gets everywhere.  Based on the amount of crap I've had to remove from my filters, it's a wise choice for me.   Lenses have a protective coating, and every time you rub is a micro-abrasion -  so the less you have to mess with them the better.  Man, its nerve wracking rubbing junk off a $2,000 lens.

I also always use a lens hood. 

It's not just you.  They approved my photos from the 23rd, but everything else, before or after, since the 21st is pending.

SS is taking applications.  Why don't you apply and let us know! 

http://submit.shutterstock.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=28011

Finally there where it should be.  Now if they would just review those photos from last month....  reviewed a bunch in the middle in a few hours and ignored everything else.

This is my first photo accepted anywhere in 06.  It's a good thing they took this series, as the others were rejected and I may have given up before I gave this microstock thing a chance.  This shot doesn't sell like hotcakes, but it generates a slow steady income.  Nature photography does not give the instant gratification of the "pretty girl in headset" effect, but a good photo seems to sell regularily, and should never really go out of style.  

This one has an EL today on SS (YIPPEEE) and two weeks ago on IS.   Funny that the only extended license sales for it in 20 months are 2 weeks apart.

Sharpshot, this happened to me on Fotolia also about 2 months back.  We (here) had a lengthy thread about the importance of unique passwords and safety when I brought it up.

One thing that is possible though, someone else may use the nickname "sharpshot" and thought they already opened an account at FT - then tried to retrieve their password.  I had a design account on Istock in 05, but pixart was gone when I registered - I tried to retrieve my password when I wanted to start uploading this spring and finally realized that I was actually pixartdesign at Istock.  So - the real pixart at IS must have recieved several similar e-mails.

Although, it raises alarms when this subject has not been raised in the whole time I've visited this site, and now you and I both mentioned it within a short period, and both times at FT.

Did you just join?  Maybe it takes a week or two of results.

Where Leaf said, under the Member Home tab.

I found this quote by Suvakov from Mostphotos in another thread quite interesting.  MP and SS are such different models though with obviously different clients...  I wish SS and IS would lighten up just a little instead of robbing customers of options.  And they should really try emptying the crap from the bottom of their databases to make room for fresh images before they flat out refuse images.

Today i bumped in to a customer on my way to the office.

The first thing he said was that he visits the site on regular bases just to scan the images.
-"It is starting to look real good now and and the images are comming in fast now" he said.
Yes, we are getting some nice images now ( i said "some" having the "bad images" discussions on my mind).
The customer answered: -" It is not just "some" - the most part of them are really good and usable - some are even to good"
I asked him: -" How can  a image be to good?"
Well, he said: "Some images are just to perfect, to fixed - we want good images but with that special reality feeling"
- Okey, what ever makes you happy, i answered and smiled.

Let the every day customer decide if the image is good enough or not - all we can do is to  continue to upload
the best of our work. Customers repeat the same message over and over again: Let us decide.
And we let them (for now) =)

//R