Confined to the office today while waiting for the next cyclone to hit, I decided to update some images on one of my commercial websites. Browsing various microstock sites, I was struck by the variation of image quality and lack of creative content.
I decided to update some of the images on one of my commercial [...]

Over the last week I have been updating my microstock libraries and stock photography, and thought I would share a couple of interesting observations and nuances I have come across in the process.
1.  Microstock Newsletter
I have been a subscriber to Lee Torens newsletter from Microstock Diaries for a  few months, and there is quite [...]

Stock photography agency reviewers do a good job of quality control, but sometimes the inconsistency between them drives me crazy.
I can understand that different agencies are looking for different picture styles, but some quality comments leave me totally bamboozled, including:-

An image is rejected because of “Limited commercial value due to composition”, when the same image [...]