Posts Tagged ‘stock photography’
Istockphoto Image of the Week
What a great surprise to awake this morning and learn (from my Europoean Facebook friends) that this image from Tokyo is anchoring the Photos section of the iStockphoto web site as the featured Image of the Week. Too cool. I [...]
Toast with…a prayer?
A couple weeks ago I was sick with some funky flu-like thing that included among its notable features, an up-and-down-up-and-down-up-and-down—fever. During the up parts when my old-fashioned mercury thermometer read above 102.3 I had little choice but to quit working [...]
Finding Your Religion(s)
There seem to be at least two distinct—though not mutually exclusive—sects in the church of stock photography: Creationists – those who create images specifically for stock libraries, and also what I’ll call Evolutionists – the folks who are happy to [...]
The Ugly Truth
I can’t draw for sh*t, um, I mean beans. It’s not impossible to think I would have never become a photographer if I had had the ability to draw or paint. I mean who wouldn’t like to have the talents [...]
Making Things Right(er)
The truth is occasionally I have an idea for a stock image that turns out to be, ready for this, stupid. Hey, it happens. I usually get past it. But this post isn’t about one of those times. This is [...]
Learning to have faith in the sofa
Occasionally, as photographers going about our day, we’ll see something and a voice will whisper “That’s a photo.” It might be an interesting person, a captivating view, or the perfect juxtaposition of objects. But often we don’t stop – we [...]
Two (glorious) Weeks in Tokyo
I was so fortunate to have been selected to travel to Tokyo, Japan to join more than 50 other iStockphoto and Getty photographers from all parts of the globe for what you might call a nine-day photo orgy, also known [...]
“Home Alone” Shortlisted for “Best Narrative” Award
Talk about feeling honored. Home Alone, was selected by a panel of accomplished photographers and creatives as one of ten finalists from thousands of nominations in this year’s iStockphoto’s Stocky Awards, in the Best Narrative category. I remember taking this [...]