Phillip Minnis Photography

Sunday, November 27, 2011

PHILLIP MINNIS PHOTOGRAPHY WEB-SITE

MICROSTOCK PHOTOGRAPHY

Prior to April 2007, I knew nothing about microstock photography. Once it was pointed out to me that any photographer can join a site, commence uploading images, and earn anything ranging from a few extra dollars each year, to an entire living, I promptly set about joining a number of these sites. I am sure that most of us want to earn a few extra dollars to help to pay for a new lens, some new equipment, or to put towards the next photography trip. This was certainly the case with me.

During the first twelve months, I uploaded between 400 and 600 images to around 13 microstock photography sites. After that, I decided to sit back for a while and observe how my sales went on these sites. Recently, I deleted my images from the sites where I did not achieve sufficient sales, and decided to concentrate on building up a large portfolio of images on the ones that were achieving average to very good sales for me each month. I now have between 1300 and 2300 images on these sites, and these numbers keep growing as I add more images each week.

Why don't you give it a go? I'm certainly glad I did! Since uploading to these sites, I've earned thousands of dollars.

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About Me

I am middle-aged, married, and a father of two teenage daughters. I reside on the Southern Highlands of New South Wales, Australia.

I have always been interested in photography, and during my teenage years I was always the one in the family who captured the images of family holidays, birthdays, and important events. In my early twenties, I commenced entering images into competitions at local shows. At first I achieved moderate success, but as the years passed by, my images would often gain a number of 1st, 2nd and 3rd placings. In 2006, I not only won many 1st, 2nd and 3rd placings, but I also won the 'Most Outstanding Exhibit', and 'Most Successful Competitor' at two local shows. One of these images went on to beat the 'Most Outstanding Exhibit' from 14 other shows in the region.

As photography entered the digital age, I soon replaced my film camera with my first digital camera. This opened up a whole new world to me, and I soon started entering my photos into a number of international online photography competitions. I went on to win many 'Photo of the Day' awards, and this became completely addictive. Over the next few years, I won thousands of dollars worth of prizes on these sites. After winning many awards, I accepted the position as a judge on one of the sites, and I am now also the judge in the photography section at one of the largest annual shows in my region.

In 2007, I was introduced to the world of Microstock Photography. I bought a new Nikon D200 camera and some prime lenses, and joined a number of international Microstock Photography sites, where I commenced selling my work. Since joining these sites, I have gone on to specialise in travel photography, and I now spend a number of weeks each year overseas, capturing images, and uploading them to these sites. I delight in the fact that I actually achieve a reasonable income on the side from pursuing my passion.....photography.

I consider myself to be a versatile photographer. Although I prefer travel and landscape photography, I also enjoy capturing people, cityscapes, industrial, architectural and macro images.