John M. Lund asked: “Strategic alliances are becoming increasingly important”.  Can’t remember where I saw that quote, but it struck at the time, several years ago, as being an important one.  With every passing month it seems to me the truth in those words increases.  One way in which I am finding that quote to [...]

Nicholas Normandy asked: So you want to make a living from your freelance digital photography. A way to earn extra income that has been showing a lot of promise is selling your freelance photos to stock photography sites like Fotolia. Say you love shooting pictures with your digital camera but never considered making a good [...]

Shivani Kapoor asked: Your Design Needs a free links resource to all your design requirement. We have collection of selected links for Fonts, Stock Photography, Photoshop Brushes, Vector Clip-Art, Logo types, Patterns, Icons, Sounds, Color tools, Text Generators and the Design Contests around the world. We would be attracting designers from around the globe to [...]

Dan Feildman asked: an attractive portfolio is key so the first advice I want to give is to organize your photos in accessible files on your computer, limiting the file size to approximately 20 photos per file. You will also want to rename each photograph so you can quickly access it when the need arises.Obviously [...]

R. Dodge Woodson asked: What is Stock Photography?R. Dodge WoodsonWhat is stock photography? To many photographers it is a path to profits. Other photographers find it to be a hole of frustration. Realistically, stock photography is somewhere between these two extremes.There are three ways to look at stock photography. The first is the view that [...]

John M. Lund asked: I firmly believe that now is the most exciting time ever to be a photographer, and to be shooting stock.  There are more tools and more opportunities than ever before. The playing field has been leveled.  The demand for images, and consequently stock photography, is exploding. Of course, there is more competition [...]

Groshan Fabiola asked: Selling stock photography to a stock image library could be a great option for you if you’re more interested in taking pictures than selling them. One of the major problems associated with freelance photography on a part time basis is the lack of time. If you have a separate job that takes [...]

Neil J Bradford asked: United Independent Photographers from around the world unite to form an affordable Royalty Free and Rights Managed Stock Photography Library.At last, a stock photos library offering the highest quality stock photography royalty free stock photos, rights managed stock photos at one flat rate, low price and the actual [...]