Microstock Photography

Images of spa related mood and environments can be big big money makers for micro stock photographers as the website makers for spa type products range from surgery to skincare to aesthetician services to getaway travel. Any soothing, relaxing environment that looks like spa travel can also double for real estate or condominium or apartment related project. Real estate and home pictures can be very lucrative just now.

The startling emotion pouring out of the images is stunning. The animals getting patched up in the burn unit brought tears to my eyes. The contrasts of parched earth and red flame make stark textures and gripping photorealism. The angles of many of the fire lanes play against the symmetry of a row of firefighters.

Burbank Hills With spreading Smoke

I was saddened to hear of the drug overdose death of DJ AM, a young man who had been somewhat influential on the Los Angeles music scene and had recently died in a New York hotel room. My first instinct was to type in the url of a website called “the Cobrasnake”, a photo website that has functioned as a gung-ho gallery of clubby scenester nightlife. I expected to see some photos.

There comes a time in the life of every photographer when they realize that the art of the hobby photograph has left them and that their habitual way of looking at images is part of a money earning, career growth concern. The path to riches is lined with…pixels! This is what makes the micro stock photographer a professional instead of an amateur.