Hey Lee & Tom,

Thanks for the follow-up and laughs!   Stockxpert ..  were the culprits.  I wrote to them and asked the questions why the cropped image was acceptable yet the full image was considered spam.  ( the crop was minor at best )     After reading the keywording notes by Sharply_Done, If anything.. I should be pulled up for NOT putting enough keywords in!!!!

Boy this is fun... don't worry...I don't take it personally.  Been doing the photo game way to long to understand it.

I'll let you know how I go with the reply from SXpert.

Cheers,  JC

Ok... I'm slight confused about the domain name included in the price of admission.  I have my own company, my own website but if I decide to try an alternative... do I then point my domain to Kumaru or come up with something completely new?

How does that work?

Cheers,  JC

Great tips!  yingyang0 has done this before and knows skating!  I'll take it one step further.. take the advice of getting down, that's laying down to get shots from a smaller pipe to start.
Then, once you're comfortable..  MOVE CLOSER.  It's one of the more important tips we teach our photographers here...  push yourself, your photography ...and your subjects.  Nothing beats a great in-your-face action shot.

Good luck.  JC

(PS. I wasn't kidding...  loose boards do hurt!)

G'day Sharply & Chellyar..

Just letting you know about life from the end...  starting professional and now heading to microstock.  As you suggested Sharply..  I specialize in one area of photography (sport/Leisure) and have done so for far too many years to count... but wouldn't trade it for anything.  Having owned and/or operated RM collections for the better part of 25 years, I'm finding playing in the MS has only helped my photography.

Sure... my rate of acceptance isn't as high sometimes as I'd like... you see, my day job has me going out tonight to photograph a rugby game which could yield some great MS images.  Pitch dark and in the rain!!!!!   I don't care how good your cameras are, getting images accepted to any site with the noise I'll get tonight is a real challenge.  ( I'll get a good laugh when the reject note comes in telling me to re-shoot the images in better light or with a better camera.. I shoot with Nikon D2xs ...  any news on a D3 yet?)

Microstock is helping me to look beyond my scope of work and shoot for better quality.. even if sometimes it seems impossible.   I keep think something about teaching an old dog new tricks.. but in the meantime...  I'll take your word for it and keep with what has been a great life for me  for a long time.   Specialize in what you love and understand.

Thanks...  happy flying.

JC