Maybe it's the company owners and they have a sense of humour 

thx storm. you pay about the same with a high traffic domain, so i was wondering if this is a better place . i wish more ppl will let me know. obviously no one else knows about them. not a good sign.

Again, it all depends on what your goals are. This service is not suited for stock sales if that is what you are looking for. As far as a "high traffic domain", when building a site with any domain, it's all in the effort you put into it. Buying into something regarded as "high traffic" does not ensure success. It's all in the site optimization, adding a blog with current and relevant content, and third party tie-ins for marketing.

Well, it doesn't look like they take vectors, so that automatically drops it from my future consideration list. You eliminate a huge buyer segment by not offering EPS files. Even if you do photographs only, this should be a consideration in evaluating an agency.

After a cruise through on popular subjects, was not able to randomly hit upon an image that had at least one download. Even some really good looking images have zero.

I got one of these today for one image and have replied asking for clarification. Will post here if I get a worthwhile answer.

Because  coffee beans on a search for cappuccino fills up the search pages unnecessarily and makes the buyer page forward and forward looking, when they shouldn't have to.  Also, "cappuccino" is a noun.  "Coffee beans" is a noun.  It's not like that is a grey area.  Either it is there, or it isn't.

Have to totally agree here. It either is, or it isn't. As a former image buyer, having things things named what they are not was the absolute biggest time waster for me.

How about a guy in a suit on white, with the keyword Wallet because he might have one in his back pocket? Just stupid. Keyword accurately.

Check eBay and see if you can get a copy of Illustrator 10. It's the most stable version, and it's really all you need for stock.

When some of the stockers first started using Ink, files were passing. But then I think a few of the reviewers started discovering where the bitmapped gradients were hidden, and a large number of files started failing. Some reviewers I think now check the EPS file in Notepad, and look at the program generation header. If they see ".046" in the version, they will automatically fail the file. Thus the ambiguity in many of the SS forum threads discussing Inkscape.

Nikons here too since 1982. Still even have all my old film cams, and 3 Nikon digi SLRs. Have never regretted a Nikon purchase.

The people here don't seem to be such gear hounds which is refreshing. They are all over at DPReview 

It's quite different from having a photo of a blue satin sheet background with "red" and "green" as keywords.

Try a search for "red satin sheet" and you will find that red can have the strangest hues.  Or that I have a vision impairment and colors look different....

Regards,
Adelaide

Yes like orange and lime green. No, you're not vision impaired 

Don't care how they do it. It is good policy though.

When I used to buy images regularly, keyword spam was the biggest time waster for me. In fact, it probably even resulted in less sales for the agencies, at least from me. It was just tiring wading through so many images that were not even close to what I needed.

On one site I did a recent search for Blue Ribbon hoping I would come up with one such as for a county fair prize. In the first search results, there were many, many, many that were neither blue, nor were they any type of ribbon.

There are definitely some strange things going on at DT. A friend of mine has terrible problems with rejections. She is a pretty good shot, and her stuff is technically very good. Yet she gets the bizarre rejections. Then strangely, you'll find just a godawful pic of similar subject accepted, and the submitting photog just happens to be on the favorites list of one of the admins there. Have seen this on more than one occasion.

Personally I have a problem with the "too many of this" rejection - who is to say that your pic is not much better than some of the stale crap that is already in there? As in flowers, landscapes etc. There's always room for something good to give fresh inventory to the buyers..

First cam was Zeiss Ikon Contessa rangefinder, now a collector's item. Still have it here somewhere. Was followed by a Yashica TLR (120 roll film). Both were bought used from an old timer photog.  First 35mm was Nikon FM followed by Nikon FE2 and then Nikon F4s.

Very first digital was an Olympus point & shoot in 1997 I think.

Now have Nikon D200 and Nikon D3, and all of my old lenses work on them ;-)

For fun an portability have Panasonic DMC LX2 and Panny FZ50. The pannys are noisy, but love the LX2 for quick travel shots because of the 16:9 format achieved with 28mm equivalent lens.

Sometimes caustic, but sometimes the only voice of clarity and reason.

RIP and condolences to the family.