This month’s Breakfast Stock Club Summer Sprints Challenge is all about capturing fun, healthy activities. Whether it’s going for a jog, working in the garden, or exploring a nearby park, summer is the perfect time to create some great “active lifestyle” images to add to your stock photo portfolio. Got plans this weekend? If so, […]
Crossing the street in Hanoi, Vietnam is a skill every person in the city must learn. To cross the street, you simply step out in traffic, and a whirlwind of cyclos (Hanoi’s version of the rickshaw), mopeds, motorcycles, and cars strategically move around you. It’s amazing and terrifying at the same time. We took a […]
As a young boy, I remember having to stay still and smile to the camera. It was important not to move in order to get sharp pictures. Photographers are known to freeze time and capture snippets of still life. But adding even the slightest, purposeful motion blur into an image can imply a sense of […]
In late 2012, I was still trying to recover from a nasty divorce—one that had left me floundering under a mountain of bills, desperate to figure out a way to support myself… fast. One night, while surfing the internet, I stumbled across the Breakfast Stock Club. It claimed to be more than just a free […]
One of my favorite childhood photographs is of my sister and me in Cape Cod. Aged 6 and 7, we are grinning up at the camera, and I have my own little camera slung around my neck. My smile would be even wider if I’d known that someday my Cape Cod photos would grace the […]
I’ve always loved travel and photography. For most of my life, these activities were confined to vacations and weekends. Although I was very grateful for the jobs that provided my living and travel money, I never felt ready to return to work at the end of a travel holiday. My long-term goal was to create […]
Every week, I hear from Breakfast Stock Club members who are making their first stock photography sales… finding their photos on websites and in print all over the world… watching their skills and income grow… A few even tell me about paying the mortgage with stock photo income… buying a new Harley Davidson… making their first $10,000 in stock photo royalties… And basically […]
The year was 2011 and I was going through some major life changes. I was looking for a new direction and source of income when I came across a stock photo expedition to Maui with Great Escape Publishing. I was already earning a little cash shooting high-school senior portraits and had recently started a real […]
Argentine tango dancers are part athlete, part actor… and all the way obsessed. To watch them at work is awe-inspiring. Their sleek bodies. Their muscular calves. The way they effortlessly bend and twirl… and that look of pure passion on their faces. This January in Buenos Aires, I was transfixed. In the mid-summer heat, I […]
Breakfast Stock Club reader, Rachel Lambert is on a roll. One day she decided to give stock photography a try, and two weeks later, she had almost 300 photos accepted! That’s amazing! But what strikes me the most about her story is that she made it very doable. She created a solid game plan and stuck to it. With confidence and […]
