Life as a freelance stock photographer can be exciting, demanding, frustrating, but, never boring! If you’re an experienced photographer, acquiring the image (stock photograph) to sell is not the biggest challenge. Finding the right photobuyer is.
We have been in the stock photogaphy business for 11 years, now. Started with a speciality in botanical images: plants, flowers, gardens. We’ve photographed 20+ botanical gardens, in Europe and all over U.S. We’ve been published in all the major gardening magazines published in the U.S. (never submitted to those in Europe).
To be a contributing photographer for those magazines required having an index of plants photographed totalling at least 1,500 species. It took about 12 months to photograph that many species.
A querrie package was sent to each magazine publisher with copy of the index (each plant must have English name and Botanical Name), a page of slide photos, and copies of published photos. It was also necessary to follow-up with a phone call. We were put on the contributing photographers list and received notice of plants to be used in the next magazine.
We expanded our inventory dramatically. Now we have extensive travel pictures, animal pictures, and bird pictures. For an idea of our work, take a look at www.cafepress.com/framed_print.
