Merry Christmas!!! :)

Merry, Merry, Merry Christmas to all! :)
December has been a nice DL month, I broke my old ODD record just half way through the month, and got another EL just before Christmas. In addition, I got my first sale on a new-for-me print-on-demand site - someone liked my image enough to want it on their wall - sweet! :)

Here is the EL pic from Christmas week:


I hope Santa is kind to everyone, and Holiday spirits are high :)

The Christmas month, Christember!

December aka Christember is here! :P An EL found its way to my port on the first day - awesome! Let there be MANY!

Also, I got my BigStock port started with help of SS Bridge to BigStock, and my first sale over there. Hank got the honor to be the first in his Christmas wreath outfit ;) Happy, happy month to one and all :D

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Let's make it TWO ELs for the first day -- and a big big hip hip hurray on top! :D

Nice Going, September, Welcome October!

September ended up pretty awesome -  total of six ELs made their way in my port, and I also reached 5000 all time images sold.

The next goal is reaching my next pay raise - $3000 earned is only a few days away, and I hope I land that goal sooner than later :)

September was pretty  good with overall downloads, however the third week saw the most of them. The last week was rich in ELs (3), but not as high in DLs as the previous week. September did make it to my 2nd best month ever both in earnings and downloads, so that's all good. Now to reach for the #1 spot for both is a stretch, but one's gotta hope for best! ;)


Here are my EL images of September

Whoah!!! Or, no, really... keep on!!! :)

As this week started I was expecting a slowish week with the approaching Easter and holidays. Little did I know I was about to get hit with the most amazing week yet on my stock journey.
Monday started out nice with DLs, but every one of them was "just" a regular subscription DL. ODDs, the ones that had been bringing me more $$ earlier in the month were avoiding me like plague.
Then it started on Tuesday... an EL on a kitty pic...
Following that, THREE ELs on Wednesday on two Hummers and a butterfly.
That was already unbelievable!
Thursday, another EL, for Hank wearing a Santa hat. The image had never sold before!
Friday reduced me to tears. Another EL on a butterfly. This was surreal, things like this don't happen to me!! My friends on SS forum called me after an amazing lady photographer, Sandra Cunningham, whose port you can find here:

http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-usandralise.html

What an honor... but... she's in her own class, miles above :)
Let's not lower her to my low level...LOL


Now, wondering how next week will turn out after a total surprise last week! :O

Here are the wonder makers:




Yeahh!!

And... Thank You!

Chicks!!

There are CHICKS... loads of fluffy little CUTE chicks.... ready for Easter fun :)
Get yourself a smile from my port :)

It took eight days of March to get my first EL, on another butterfly photo. Now hoping for the chickies to get some... ;)

Gulf Fritillary Butterfly:


And a cute chickie in celebration of SPRING!

March is marching in

As February faded away, on the last day I got another nice EL on one of the butterflies. It was a short month that felt long due to a long wait for ELs ;)

As March arrived I was waiting for my newest Easter pics to get through review, and they got rejected for infringing my rights... yep, MY rights.
MY bad, of course, since I didn't submit a property release for my hand painted fancy eggs. OK, they are NOT so fancy, but they did take a lot of work.
So, I resubmitted with a release and am now waiting waiting waiting... and hoping hoping hoping they get through and that they sell, too. Of course, *I* think they're really cute, but it doesn't help one ounce unless the buyers think so, too, AND find them usable for their purposes... maybe a few ELs... har har har...
A Girl Must Dream, eh?

Enough of talk, let's get to commercials...
Here's the latest EL butterfly:




Let's have some MORE, now... :D

Hank rules!

February's first EL went to Hank aka The Blonde One.
I also reached my first 1000 pics online, now headed for my next full thousand ;)
Sales have been slowish in February, the EL came just in time to pick it up a little. A whole lot of picking up needs yet to happen to catch up...

Here's Hank, the cutie pie :)

Almost February....

Time flies when you're having fun, and all that :)

January presented itself with TWO new ELs, one for the EL veteran image "horse butts in snow" and the other to an image of Blackie, our pretty calico kitty in late afternoon sun.

This week has been SLOW, today being the worst day of the week so far... and the weekend is yet to arrive - it will be worse! :O

It's nice and balmy outside for late January - forecast is promising us with a sunny day of 70F. I think I'll just go out and enjoy that!! :)

Here are the two EL images of the month:

JJ & Hank in snow


Blackie

Merry Christmas!!

Christmas is here! :)
And so was a special load of sales - another EL for a gray tabby picture at SS, and TWO big$$$ sales at Alamy - the super surprise of the week!! What an awesome Christmas present!

Here's one of the Alamy sale pics as a SS version



Merry Christmas to All!

Then, it was December!

November had a couple of steaming hot weeks with DLs, with two slower weeks following. December stepped in, was quite nice to start with and then slowed down a lot again. On Tuesday the 7th I got my second ever EL, and had a great overall day with regular DLs and ODDs. The EL image was the white butterfly on a white Petunia from the post of October the 2nd - awesome!!! :)

The next goal is getting to my first $500 earned, and with the EL's help I'm at under $12 from that goal... could get there still this week if all goes all right :) That'll give me my first raise, 8 cents per regular DL which makes a big difference!!

Here's one of my favorite candle shots to celebrate the season :)

My First EL!

Last week saw my very first EL - enhanced license - which means I got a bunch of money for it compared to the normal 25 cents, and also that it will be used for "merchandising and high-viewership commercial uses" i.e in a magazine or a product. I also had my best download day so far on the same day I had the EL, so it was a pretty exciting day :)

Here's the EL photo...



Christmas card material? :)


Also, I have another photo hat has been very successful after I uploaded it, and it's climbing up the DL ladder fast - here's the beauty



Today has been a fairly good DL day despite it being Sunday - I'm just hoping it doesn't mean Monday will be one of those obligatory slow days... fingers crossed for another good day...!!!