Not exclusive and yes I upload semi-regularly, last time I uploaded was December 2011.

Great info, thanks. My only question is, one of the respondents makes 900,000 per year, how much does that one figure skew the average income results? It would seem to me that one figure would skew the results a lot from a relatively small pool of respondents, around 700.

Look at NEC

http://www.necdisplay.com/p/desktop-monitors/pa241w-bk-sv

Lots of top photogs and graphic artists swear by NEC.  Arguable as good as (or close to) an eizo, for less money. Lacie markets things and re-badges products made by other companies, which you get to pay higher prices for and receive gawd awful customer service with. So no reason to go with a LaCie over an NEC.

Cant afford an Eizo but want a color accurate monitor that is easy to calibrate (essential for good stock imo) the NEC is highly recommended across the board.

Personally I think this is revolutionary technology, a paradigm shift. The tech is in is infancy, this is a first step, an embryonic version of something that in a few years, maybe five, will completely change photography. Think about it, deciding after the fact, where to place focus, how much to be in or out of focus. I see so much potential here it's mind boggling. It's either going to put me out of work as a photographer or allow me more creative freedom then ever before. Awesome.

Even more relevant is the first page of Dan Helller's blog, September 30th, 2011. http://danheller.blogspot.com/ Great example and explanation.

I have 60 images on Getty, 35 are Flickr, and I make sales from Flickr every month. The monthly totals vary but anywhere from 10 bucks to a few hundred. The RPI is better than the micros but the caveat is it takes a long time to get a lot of images up on Getty Flickr. They only allow you to submit 25 per month and for me they accept usually just a couple per month. Many others complain of the low acceptance rate as well. I could submit as many as I want under the photographers choice collection but at $50 per image for the placement fee it isn't worth the cost for me. So all my images go through the selection process of Getty / Flickr first, and any  that are not selected (which is most) go to the micros and Alamy.

Joseph, why . are you worrying about micro stock? Your port is way too good. Why aren't you shooting for Vogue yet?

For what it's worth I agree with you totally. If you look at the more traditional stock agencies they use agency models. I assisted a fashion / stock shooter, Getty, Corbis, no micro, and she always hired models from agencies in Los Angeles. They are on time, they work, they provide experience, they produce the goods, and they look great on film. MM models, flake, don't know how to model, expect the photog to micro pose their every move, in my experience, they just don't look as good, or bring much talent to the table. I'm sure there are exceptions but that's why their on MM and not working for Elite. It's other stuff too, clothing stylists, makeup stylists, it all shows in the final product. I cant tell you how many times gorgeous women show up to a shoot with terrible clothes that are not ironed, thinking that the photographer can take out wrinkles in photoshop. These girls want to model and have no fashion sense or posing ability whatsoever. If I could afford it, I would use nothing but agency models.

If you want a small "micro four thirds" camera, then you want the GH2, best sensor of all the micro 4/3 cams (see http://www.dxomark.com) and look specifically at the dynamic range portion of the tests, and even more specifically the low iso DR performance. However, the best affordable DSLR right now is the Nikon D5100 $850 with lens, again according to DXO mark this sensor beats out Hasselblads, all Canons except the 1DS mark III, and is on par with the more expensive D7000, and D 700 Nikons, a real bargain. $1600 will get you the Pentax K5 which rates even higher in the DR portion. DR is IMO probably the most important factor when looking at a camera. But the Nikon is great all around, is light, and has a great movie mode as well if you're interested in that. I'm a Canon guy so no fanboy propaganda on my part. Just looking at the numbers.

happened to me, must be a glitch, darn, I had a few hundred bucks in sales just today.

Nothing is adding up, the pending numbers when added to the online numbers do not reach 10,000,000, the estimate is the 22nd down from the 25th, when images are uploaded the are estimated to be reviewed in 150 hours, then they are reviewed in a day or two. What should we believe?

Also, if I recall, too many images with similar keywords will bring down your search ranking, so you split these images up between pseudos in order to to have a smaller number of similar keyworded images affecting your rankings since ranking is pseudo independent.

I is notable, though, that the earnings are going down rather than up.  Is that because you are getting fewer sales there, or because the average price per sale is dropping? 

Both

Also, a few years ago they changed their system of key wording and I never took the time to go through my images and fix them so I believe since then, my images have never ranked very high in Alamy searches. I just recently went through all 2000 of my images, and re-keworded them to fit their hierarchical system, and also removed duplicated keywords (i used to be very sloppy at keywording) so now hopefully my images will rank higher and I'll get more sales. Or maybe i just wasted a whole bunch of time. We'll see.
-David

I've been getting a lot of rejections lately, and SS used to accept darn near everything I submitted. However, maybe it's a coincidence, but on two occasions lately, I submitted on the weekend as apposed to a weekday and both times everything was accepted. Different reviewers who are smarter, I mean more tolerant, working on the weekends?