To get something to happen, something has to be done…

When I started taking photos, I wanted just more than take the pictures and then store them on my computer. I wanted to show them to the world. And if I could get paid for them too, oh, that would be great! When you want something, I have learned that you have to do something, not just sit down and wait for the money.

So I started to investigate, how could I use my photos and get paid for them? In one of his books, Scott Kelby gave me the answer, sell them as stockphotos. So I started to search for agencies that wanted my photos.
Since then I have delivered hundreds of photo to Istockphoto, Shutterstock, Dreamstime and other agencies and sold thousands.(I also had many refused).

You sell your photo many times, and get paid every time. They are sold to other designers, newspaper, travel agencies, photographers who will use them in their designs, work, publicity or what ever. And even if you don´t get rich, it´s rather a enjoyment to find out when you log on to your agency that you have sold 20 photos one day and you may sell them next day also, and which you might did sell last week. And maybe you uploaded them last year to the agency.

So, while you waiting to get “rich and famous”, do something! And you never know when you find some of your photos in a newspaper, magasin or whatever.

And don´t give up if you get refused, I did, many times, but I didn´t give up.

The three last photos are the ones that I have sold most of all. Those I have  sold over 50 times, each of them.

The three ones on the top are some of the latest I got approved at Shutterstock and Dreamstime.