Well... that was the line I got from Peter himself. I had a decent 60-70% approval rate for half a year and in the last month, it dropped to 20%. Of course all the rejections were the now infamous "thanks, but we are not looking for such image right now". Why I wondered? My technique improved, my selection stringency improved (my approval rate at Shutterstock and iStock is at almost 100% now) yet here almost every picture was being rejected (70 of 84 rejected). So I wrote a message to the admins blasting the reviewers basically insinuating that there was a reviewer out to get me, blah, blah, blah, two days later I got a response and a re-review of my images (additional 7 were accepted).

Anyways... here's a quote "...I took a look at your recent uploads and I approved some more although in most cases I have to agree with the admin who checked them. On StockXpert travel photos don't sell too well, just try searching for Rome and you'll see how few downloads they have. Still, many people want to upload travel stock so we are very selective..."

Anyways to follow up, EVERY SINGLE non travel photo I submitted got accepted recently. I ticks me off because I like travel photography and almost nothing else, but... at least now I know.