Holiday Tip: Your Bathtub as a Photo Studio

Over the years, we’ve collected a number of travel tips that I’ve shared with you in this e-letter. Tips like how to save wet electronics with rice… how to remove lint with airline luggage tags… and how to get free upgrades on rental cars. So it’s become a tradition...

Travel Stock Photos from Thailand

This is one of my favorite shots from last week’s Thailand Photo Expedition: It’s not fit for stock because I don’t have model releases for the people in it. It might also be too dark for stock. But that’s ok — I wouldn’t want to...

Pictures from Thailand and How to Break an Egg with One Hand

Thai cooking instructor Yui held up her hand and crisply snapped her fingers. “You want to crack an egg with one hand? It’s just like snapping your fingers.” Snap. As the slippery noodles soaked up their sauce in my wok, my Pad Thai was almost complete. All it needed...

Stock Photographer Gift Ideas

  “What do you want for Christmas?” It’s hard to answer this question when as a stock photographer, what you want for Christmas includes a bigger camera, a faster lens, and a nice photographic vacation somewhere exotic. Since Black Friday is...

How Much Will You Earn with Stock Photography?

“How to Make a Million Dollars in Microstock” was the title of stock analytics site Lookstat’s blog issue last month. They crunched some numbers over at Lookstat, and it turns out that if you make $4 per image, and you add 400 new images to your...

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