How to Sell Flower Photos as Stock
You CAN sell flower photos as stock. How do I know? Because this flower photo makes up about a third of my total stock photo income: It’s not a great photo, but it is unique. The fact that the flowers are isolated on white means that designers can “float” it into any design they please.…
Selling People Pictures without a Model Release
You don’t need a model release to sell your people pictures as stock photography. Making people unidentifiable in your photos allows you to still make a profit off of them without the paperwork.
6 Ways Travel Writing Benefits You
I recently caught up with a nurse colleague I’d worked with many years ago. We started chatting about life and my travel writing. Intrigued, she asked what I loved most about my new profession. I had a difficult time answering that question. Not because there aren’t many aspects of travel writing that I love, but…
Power Posing: How To Look Confident In Photos
First impressions matter. And recent studies prove it takes just a split second to form one. What’s crazy is that when it comes to sensing levels of confidence, leadership, charisma, friendliness, and more… our split-second impressions are eerily accurate. But here’s the great part: In photos, we can project the things we’d like people to…
Five tips to grow your stock Photography Portfolio
Follow these five tips to stay motivated to take more photos and increase your stock photography sales.
3 Benefits of Combining Disciplines
Offering photos and video to editors alongside your articles adds wealth to your writer’s life. It is easy to do and has the added bonus of enriching your travel experiences. Looking at a place through a camera lens sharpens your focus. Looking at it through video makes you more aware of the surroundings and what’s…
How I Got My First Published Article
As an information technology project manager, I am a “road warrior.” Most weeks Monday through Friday, I travel to client sites. My travel to 42 states and 41 countries has been an adventure. I knew several years ago that I don’t want to give up this lifestyle when I retire. I needed to figure out…
How to Increase Your Chances of a Hotel Comp
Who wouldn’t want to stay in hotels for free and write about it? In my four years of travel writing, I’ve managed to have 100 hotel feature articles published on two websites, and one magazine. Most of those hotel stays were comps, many of which I found by contacting the hotel directly. Some of the…
Photo Course Day Four: How to Be Photogenic
How to be photogenic — and encourage your model to be more natural — by avoiding these common pitfalls of portrait photography…
4 Proven Tips to Make Sure You Are Always Editor-Ready
For years I confidently wrote letters, reports, proposals, technical articles, and manuals. After I retired from the corporate world, I started my travel writer’s journey. I plodded along sending queries and stories, all created in Microsoft Word. I was sure my work was above par when it came to spelling, punctuation, and grammar. Then one…
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