A couple of days ago Stockxpert started a new monthly contest. This month keyword is “timecomp”. Deadline is April 14. The 1st place winner gets $500 and a spot in their monthly newsletter, 2nd place winner gets $350 and a spot in their monthly newsletter, 3rd place winner gets $150 and and a spot in their monthly newsletter.
Yesterday I learned that I had been approved by both 123 Royalty Free and Stockxpert. All ten photos that I sent to 123 Royalty Free where approved so I submitted another 45. They where all approved! Very nice! I only hope that I can earn some money from them now.
Today I got an e-mail from BigStockPhoto telling me which of my images where approved and which where not. One image got rejected because it didn’t have a signed model release. I was so flattered! It’s a totally computer generated image of a pregnant black woman but apparently it looks very real. That’s probably the best compliment I could ever get. I wish all my computer generated images looked that “real”.
123 Royalty Free has some cool things you can put on your website. One is a “mini slideshow widget” that shows some of your images from your portfolio. The other thing is an image search box that can be modified to show the latest uploads from your portfolio or your most popular images or even both. You can view the mini slideshow widget below…
