You're welcome!  It's one of those photos you never forget - such vivid colour.  I remember snooping through this portfolio once and there were quite a few poses.   I got lucky in the search the first time looking for it!

That is amazing, I'm very happy for you.   Please share the photo with us!

I've had one on DT and one on FT.  The photo on DT has only sold one other time there so getting an EL is quite a reward.  At DT you get a nice chunk of cash too - $25.  I was still under 100 sales at FT and only got I think $6.60.  Haven't sold any since I hit 100.  

Both of the EL's were likely used for educational brochures perhaps.  They were model released student in a classroom setting.  I'm making a very uneducated guess here, but I think that the more specific the photos to a certain industry or category, the better the chance of an EL.

I'm afraid we all likely sell dozens of photos that SHOULD have EL's, but aren't purchased accordingly.

I don't have a large portfolio, so I'm not the best person to contribute to these conversations, but I always find Fotolia a bumpy ride.  Several days of good downloads followed by several days of no sales at all.

Also, it seems that I sell almost as many files as at DT, but $ are considerably less.   I'm not sure why - but it seems that a vast majority of my sales at Fotolia are for the smallest resolution as well.  $ don't add up very quickly.

I find their website very slow and cumbersome.  I hope this doesn't chase buyers away to the other sites with pages that load in a fraction of the time.  Unless of course, they go to DT where we make more:)

Hey Tom, I saw that too... if anyone is wondering it wasn't DT by the way...  and there were pages and pages and pages of them too with different models appearing in the newest category.   I just wanted to browse, got a bit of a creepy feeling as I advanced.  Musta been someone new and uploading their whole portfolio.

I agree that there should be a filter - I almost sent a note to the admin, but wondered what good it do.  I can't imagine that most stock models would want their nudes to be frequented by young boys, etc.

... for capturing the "Image of the moment" at Lucky Oliver. 

Jan, you must tell us about this one!

http://www.luckyoliver.com/big_top/photo_moment/jan-will

Congrats

Oh, and how rude of me.  What I was going to say is CONGRATS - it's good to be on SS.

DT says it is an agent. They are your agent. Normally an agent goes looking for work for you while you focus on your craft. That is what we are paying them to do. They are not paying us, they are taking commission from us. They work for us. They have an obligation to treat us fairly.

Agents for talent, sports, art, etc... are also negotiators.   I would love to believe that we are all treated equally.  Realistically, however, I do not have a favoured nations clause in my agreement (i.e. if one of my peers gets something, I do too).  

I would also assume that all agents in whatever business look after the "Agency" first.  If the agency fails how does that help us?

Compare it to sports.  A NHL team can sign a multi-million $ superstar while they have several players earning minium league wage (albeit a GOOD one).  The superstar will hopefully take them to The Cup extending the revenue weeks for the season.  They sell more tickets throughout the season.  They sell more t-shirts.  They sell more popcorn.  The other teams in the league sell more tickets when the superstar plays there.  

Is this guy a superstar?  I don't know - I personally respect the portfolio.  It's at Lucky Oliver, I'm not sure where else.  It's a considerable number of photos.  Shouldn't the agency Dreamstime do everything it can to get the superstar in its own stadium?  Bring the ticket buyers who will come looking for a bulldog on a green background and purchase a penguin and a vintage car while they are there?

It's a holiday here in Canada as well.
Unfortunate Americans have much fewer public holidays.

Hey Sharply, where are you?  I'm in Winnipeg.

Well, I have about 90 images sitting there to be finished and no iptc data arrived with them.   I'm having a nightmare uploading model releases.  Don't they have a library or am I missing something?  It seems to work when I have just one, but when I need a few releases it dosn't want for work. 

Darn, I've made $1 so I'll have to stay for at least $29 more. 

I get one sale about every three or four weeks.  I don't think I'll be cashing in any time soon.  But, good news, nonetheless.  I know there will be a lot of happy carnies out there.

The curse of the "dead" thread....  Ever since I was raving for DT on the 16 I haven't had a single sale since the 16th...  What did I do???!!!