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Colin / Linda - Images Average $ Per Month Annualized sales
FIGURE 10.4 Colin and Linda, two retirees, take photos while traveling the world.
Marianne
Marianne is from Alabama. She has a wide range of her work on
several different microstock sites. She says about her experience:
“I have done several weddings. I do portraits and love landscape
photography, along with stock photography. I would categorize
myself as semi-professional but still working and learning. Always
learning!”
Before the microstocks, Marianne had no experience with stock and
used to use a point-and-shoot camera. She is a retired secretary and
really started shooting for the microstocks as a source of additional
income and for fun. Now she is so involved she says that she is spend-
ing many hours a week on stock photography. Her personal favorite
site is Fotolia because she fi nds it to be friendly and she sells well
there.
Marianne is interested in sending work to the traditional libraries
once she has built up her portfolio suffi ciently on the microstocks. Of
the different types of sites, Marianne says, “I enjoy money from single
sales, but Shutterstock is hard to beat when it comes to volume
sales.”
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