Yearly Archives: 2012

Portfolio Update: Home Gold/Jewelry Selling Party

How’d you like to find seven million dollars worth of gold in your garage?  I sure would!  However, we may not all have unknown cousins to leave it to us.  We may, though, have unused or unwanted jewelry laying about that has value, and that’s the theme of this new royalty free image series which can be found exclusively on Stocksy .

Instagram’s Blunder

Surely you’ve heard of Instagram’s New Terms Of Service that will go into effect on January 16, 2013.  That’s probably what brought you here.  Let’s take a look at what it means. UPDATE: Backpedaling or clarification? http://blog.instagram.com/post/38252135408/thank-you-and-were-listening

New Contributor Rank Sort at AccordStock

A few weeks back, I introduced my personal portfolio website, AccordStock, where you can use the kinds of tools you are used to from your regular stock image sites to browse my portfolio and identify images of interest.  Today I’m introducing a new sorting method that should help you find your images a bit quicker.

2012 Charity Drive Wrap Up

The week is finished, the sales numbers are in, so let’s take a look at how this year’s charity drive based on my iStockphoto.com portfolio sales went for last week.

Portfolio Update: Holiday Backgrounds

It doesn’t take a wizard to figure out that when a stock image series is successful, that you may want to continue producing images in that same vein.  That’s why I’ve created and am happy to share with you, some more more content in my series of “table top backgrounds“.

2012 Charity Drive in Full Swing

Last week I heralded the arrival of the holiday season with the announcement of my annual charity drive, proceeds to be based on my iStockphoto.com portfolio downloads for the week.

2012 Charity Drive Kicks Off Monday

Ho, ho, ho, it’s the giving time of year.  Next week I’ll be kicking off my 2012 Charity Drive, based on my iStockphoto portfolio downloads.  By licensing work from my portfolio, you’ll be helping me donate money to three great causes.  Read on for more details…

Welcome to AccordStock

Eyeballs are what makes the world go around.  Specifically, the more eyeballs you can get onto your work, the better chance you have of selling that work, especially when it comes to stock content, like the kind I have in my iStockphoto.com portfolio.  So, for the last several months I’ve been working on a new style portfolio display site.  It’s meant to give you, the buyer, an alternate method of looking through my work, and then purchasing said work.  For […]

iStockphoto Scam Site

Scams abound online.  Sure, we all know the old Nigerian ones ( I didn’t know I had so many relatives there! ).  Or simple fake email Paypal phishing ploys ( you’d think they’d at least spell correctly in those).  Sometimes, however, you have to scratch your head and wonder.  I’m talking about a current site out there that would appear, by the site name and the content within, to be associated with iStockphoto, licensing stock images.  I’ll put a screen […]

2012 Charity Drive

Hope you had a great Thanksgiving!  We were out of town, so we’re having Thanksgiving Thursday this week so I can cook up some goodness and have leftovers for a few days.  Who doesn’t love a turkey-stuffing-cranberry sauce, .etc sandwich.  Don’t forget the moist-maker!  Anyhow, back to business.  It’s the holiday season, and that means my annual charity drive based how much you buy from my iStockphoto portfolio ( previous blogs can be found here ).  The drive will be […]

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