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I had a best ever month at Dreamstime; Shutterstock returned to normal after a couple months that included extended license downloads; Fotolia and 123RF were disappointing.

The results

Dreamstime Portfolio 546, New photos 31, Sales 28, Earnings $23.71
Shutterstock Portfolio 238, New photos 14, Sales 57, Earnings $15.88
Fotolia Portfolio 236, New photos 11, Sales 10, Earnings $ 4.06
123RF Portfolio 434, New photos 5, Sales 5, Earnings $ 2.08

Notes

BME at Dreamstime for earnings and downloads
Worst month at 123RF for a long time. First time in seven months to have less than 10 downloads
New referral at Dreamstime (though both referrals haven't started building a portfolio).
The month had the slowest start that I can remember. By the 6th April, I had only one download and my earnings were just 25 cents.

I hope the next month will be better. I intent to add more pictures and really want to add some people pictures. That's the month's main aim.

To do more people's shots, I've started a new blog called 100 strangers to friends.


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It's been an exciting month, with BME for both Fotolia and Shutterstock in revenue and the most downloads for Dreamstime and 123RF (Shutterstock matched it's best ever downloads for a month). The cherry on top of the cake was another extended license from Shutterstock.

The results.

Dreamstime - Portfolio 515, New Photos 27, Sales 25 at $17:03
Fotolia - Portfolio 225, New Photos 10, Sales ?? at $17:36
Shutterstock Portfolio 224, New Photos 19, Sales 64 at $46:50
123RF - Portfolio 429, New Photos 18, Sales 15 at $ 8:94

Overall income for the month $89:84

Notes

• BME revenue - Shutterstock, Fotolia
• BME for sales - Dreamstime and 123RF
• The first time that Fotolia has beaten Dreamstime
• 123RF - I had four editorial pictures accepted though they don't seen to be listed in the main portfolio. I guess they will have their own portfolio, though I'm not sure about this.
• 123RF - had a lot of pictures rejected, even ones accepted by Fotolia were rejected here.
• Fotolia - need to verify final result as I'm unable to log in at the moment.
• Extended License at Shutterstock - $28.


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February Round Up

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It's been a busy month, despite having no work, I haven't got as much done as I'd hope but I did a lot anyway. Including doing my first bungee jump, a 4 day trip to Macau, a 6 day trip to South Taiwan, more exercise and lots of reading.

Photography

The Extended License at Shutterstock is the obviously highlight and this has resulted in a Best Month Ever (BME). Shutterstock also brought in the most dollars. On the downside, I haven't produced many new pictures and didn't increase my portfolio size much, this despite having more time. I expected to increase my portfolio size easily but it didn't happened, partly I hampered by bad weather. Both trips had mostly bad weather, which isn't ideal for stock photography.


Dreamstime Total Portfolio 488 New Photos 18 Feb $10.65
Shutterstock Total Portfolio 205 New Photos 10 Feb $43.63
Fotolia Total Portfolio 215 New Photos 2 Feb $6.26
123RF Total Portfolio 411 New Photos 0 Feb $8.05

Total Earnings $68.59

Highlights

• Extended licence at Shutterstock
• BME - Shutterstock - $43.63
• Started taking 'people' pictures and got a friend involved in one photo session.


Other photography highlights of the month.

• I might have found a studio that I could use for photography.
• After seeing my flickr a/c, a woman with three shops and sells on-line wants me to make some designs for T-shirts aimed at teenage girls.

Writing

I've written some stuff and have gather the bulk on two subjects that could be made into a few articles. I've found a new topic, the health of teeth, that I'm interested in and if I make contact with some 'experts' it should be easy to get stuff published.

Generally though, I'm behind where I would like to be though.

I only contacted one editor. This was disappointing.

Chinese

I feel that my Chinese is progressing, it's going forward and I can understand more and more. My speaking is still clumsy though.
Started to learn characters again. This is something I'm good at. I don't know why, but I find learning characters enjoyable and easy, relative to speaking.

Comfort Challenges

I did the physical ones I set out to do. The bungee jump and getting my hair shaved were very easy (fighting but only take a short time to do). The ones I still need to do are 'contacting editors and Chinese from the streets (taking audio recordings of people on the street, reading local signs around were I live).



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