A Little Update

Just a quick update here to let everyone know I haven't fallen off the face of the earth.

I'm still taking photos daily (semi-daily) mostly family photos but lots of potentially good stock photos. Most of these will show up on my Facebook page (for now) and will eventually end up in my stock portfolios. I'm very active on Twitter and Facebook and that is the best way to see what I've been up to.

I've put editing and uploading stock photos on a temporary hold because I just don't have the time for it right now. I am so lucky I worked my butt off when I first got started because I can sit back and raise my two kids (with my wife) and still cash in a steady flow of royalty checks.

Thanks to anyone who is reading this and hopefully when the dust settles a little I can get back to work on m stock portfolios.

iStockphoto: Model Release Update

Just when you thought uploading your photos to iStockphoto.com couldn't be any more tedious...

Microstock giant iStockphoto recently announced that they were stepping up their standards for model releases (those little permission slips for models). The change that is going to make the most difference for my fellow photographers (myself included) is iStockphoto now requires a model release for every session with a model. No more universal releases for the same model for different shoots.

I have a hard time keeping track of releases for the 5-10 models I work with. The one that is really going to give me a lot of trouble is my son. I take photos of him almost everyday, most of those photos are ones I will sell. I can only imagine how many model releases I will have to fill out for him before he turns eighteen...lets say 2 a week for the next 17 years = 1,768! Oh, shoot me now!

All jokes aside, iStockphoto is one of my top earning sites. I can stop uploading new photos anytime, I choose to keep uploading because they are a great site and represent my work well.

Read the article at iStockphoto.com here