Alamy's rocking and rolling

Alamy is certainly different than PhotoShelter. For one, they are better known and currently have stronger sales stats. Secondly, they are not an edited collection. They have quality standards that must be met but they don't edit for content. After your initial submission is approved, consecutive submissions are only spot checked (if the spot check fails, the whole batch is rejected).

This has allowed me to toss a lot of images up rather quickly in comparison to the much slower review cycle at PhotoShelter. This is both a good and a bad thing. If I just toss up noise, I'm diluting the quality of Alamy's catalog and its value to its customers. On the other hand, if I think a particular image is marketable and PhotoShelter disagrees I have another avenue to sell on. Neither site requires exclusivity so the only real investment is time.

Time time time. I really need to crack down on this. I have all of my images up on a server. However I currently do a lot of editing via a laptop that is joined to my work domain. I have a domain at home but that is just becoming an administrative nightmare. I keep intending to install a Windows Home Server instead and use Lightroom to catalog ALL of my images from a share hosted on the server. If I put all the relative data into the tags on the images I could save a lot of time on processing accepted uploads. Man I hope I can see some success at stock photography. Just enough to let my wife stay at home and take care of our son. Two working adults is well and great before kids, but those boogers take a lot of time and money.