Could be worse, I've been having a few focus issues lately, went to get my eyes checked and found they'd deteriorated to a point I can no longer buy contact lenses and if they keep going the way they are I'll be eligible for partial sighted status soon. If anything though it makes me feel confident that if I can take a good picture now, once they send my new bottle bottom glasses, I'll be awesome If I end up too blind, then I'll sell myself as the blind photographer, you'll never get me out from behind my lens, oh no.. never!

What a wonderful site, it's things like this that restore my faith in humanity. I have piles of damaged pics that I'm starting to repair after a small flood and it breaks your heart to lose those precious pictures, it's certainly something special to be helping give memories back to people like this.

I find it amusing that my images sat in a month long queue there without review, but the moment I made a comment about it here where I know a staff member? reads that suddenly within a day every single one gets rejected, heck I know I'm not the greatest and some of my pictures deserve refusal but some of those pictures were accepted by bigger and better stock sites.
I'm throwing in my hat already with this site, I'd rather go where I believe the reviews actually look at my images and give me real reasons apart from - custom. I'll be off to do my remove my account mail right now.

While I don't like to put my eggs in one basket, I don't believe in supporting a bad site for the sake of a few extra pennies.

I use redbubble, for me, well my work isn't arty really so I'm not shocked that my offerings haven't moved. I have friends who have sold a reasonable amount of cards on their but prints are rare sales. The big thing that sells are the t-shirts, I keep meaning to sit with my tablet and work on some shirt designs but time  .  Mostly I use redbubble for the communities, the challenges give me fun things to do and I find that unlike say deviantart, the userbase are older and give better comments and critique.

I'd looked at this site before but the FAQ put me off.. the spelling doesn't reek of professionalism.

" Please notice, that we will not make the payout without you will click on the buttom"

"If there are more poople in the picture" 

In fact, it might be fun to print out copies of the FAQ http://www.pixmac.com/infocenter/name/FAQ-photographers and then keep them on your desk to use as a wordsearch/spot the mistake while having a coffee break.

Out of 14 stock sites, this is the only one I still haven't seen any reviews on, I uploaded around the 29th of september  Hope it's worth it all.

Right now I'm a relative newcomer to the stock world so for me it seems wiser to get my images out there on as many sites as I can while I test the waters and learn my way round, MP while I can see isn't likely to make me any money and the voting system is flawed, it is giving me input on the few pictures I've got and helping me try to find which path I wish to take in regards to subjects. I'm sure as I find my way and hopefully get good enough to go with some of the bigger companies I'll cut myself down and be more selective.

The standard upload form is broken too now, I upload and the pictures vanish into the never never...

I sell my images as greeting cards on RedBubble and make a lot more, potentially I can see a tiny trickle of pennies from this but MySpace isn't that popular amongst the young folk anymore, they are all using facebook these days. The 0.06 is just too low really.

My backup is a bridge camera, the Fuji Finepix S5800, most the features of an SLR combined in one. There are times it does a better job of things and I'd not be without it.

You just saved my life I was sat moaning about straps last night to my other half as I'm forever moaning about it either cutting my neck to wear for easy shooting or making my camera inaccessable to me when it's under my arm, the quick release is also something that is a major pain for me, I flip between tripod and free a lot and having to work around the huge standard issue strap is a pain in the rear.

I'll be going shopping now

While you say you'd never consider cheating, knowing she felt the same would obviously cause feelings to change and really before you even think about opening yourself up to your cousin you need to think long and hard about your future with your current partner, is it really worth the risk of losing her and ending up having a broken relationship/family for something that could all be "grass is greener".

I was crazy about a guy when I was a teen, the feelings stayed for eight years and a chance meeting resulted in us going for a drink, I confessed having a huge crush as a teen, he said he felt the same, the relationship resulting lasted less than a month as we both found that the dream and fantasies were much better than the reality.

If you have to do it, say you had a childish crush and give yourself the way out of laughing it off as a childhood thing, but I strongly advise you to look to the future and not live for the past.

I recently used photobox for some 8x10's to use as a portfolio, the service is good and the turnaround was fast but... they do like to colour correct your photos for you which is a complete pain when you have worked hard to get a specific tone and effect.