Thoughts from my still new perspective-- Lighting changes are needed. if you can get a picture of the rock wall on a sunny day, it would have more potential. I think the plane photo just needs changes to the levels to make it pop out more.

I think the moon through the trees photo is not especially exciting, but buyers are weird; I have some photos I'm not fond of that occasionally sell. I suspect this photo would.

The wasp is too small. If you're willing to get close enough to be stung for a macro shot, or have a big zoom lens, go for the close up.

The closed dealership photo is a joke I didn't get initially. I realize this says as much about me as anything. Unfortunately the building is also in shadow from the clouds.

One question I've seen others pose here that I'm always asking myself is, "Who is this photo for? What would someone buy it for?"

I'm curious how many files you have managed to upload since you started jc1305us. It takes me so long to work my way through it all. I don't use FTP upload though so maybe I should, some of the sites are really clunky.

I use Xpiks to tag my photos and upload them all at once to the sites I'm on. It's a huge time saver. I still have to go onto each site and categorize the photos, but the titles/descriptions are taken care of, and Xpiks has a key wording tool as well.

I'm still pretty new, so take my thoughts with a grain of salt.

I like what you've posted. I love the bridge shots, the blueprint, and the eggs.

I'm not sure how someone would use the lone firefighter in front of a truck photo. It looks like the kind of photo you'd see next to a newspaper quote, but it couldn't be used that way since I'd have to make one up.

The legs in the pool photo aren't quite centered.

I like the layout of your wine glass photos, but lighting is an issue. I know you're going for a natural look, but the shadows make the photos pop less. The falcon photo is similar, lighting-wise. Of course, the sun can't be controlled, so I know how it happened.

That said, buyers are strange. I've had photos I'm less than thrilled with sell, although not frequently.

In Photoshop you could set up an Action to open every image in a folder, use the Auto Tone, Auto Color, Auto Levels-type effects or the Saturation Tool, Save, and close the files out again. However, I don't think there's a way you could set up an action to use the manual Levels tool in any reasonable way.

I'm actually hearing 'dale' for the first time here. I always just thought it was a name.

The United States and Britain, two countries separated by a common language.

My number one selling photo on Shutterstock and Fotolia can't get accepted at Pond5. It's rather a mystery, but at least their rejection notices make some sense compared to Fotolia, which just gives you a list of a dozen possible reasons they might reject any photo.

Wow. Is there anything to be made of the Getty graph? They've dropped off dramatically more than the micros have picked up. Is there another macro service that's made up for it?